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  Faculty Development Opportunities At-a-Glance How to Be An Antiracist L&A Community Oct. 29   3-4:00 Faculty Dashboard Training Oct. 30   1-2:00 Tech Tips for Teaching Nov. 3 12-1:00 Online Learning Consortium Virtual Conf. Nov. 9-18 Quality Matters @ SLCC Annual Mtg Nov. 19 1-2:00 Last day to register: Canvas User Credential Nov. 10 Get Writing Workshop Series Nov. 11&18 12-1:00 Quality Matters @ SLCC Annual Mtg Nov. 19 1-2:00 See descriptions of above titles below; register through the SLCC Registration System under Faculty Development, unless otherwise mentioned. Have you seen the new Faculty Dashboard? Faculty Dashboard Training Oct. 30 1-2:00pm; virtual Join other faculty and Data Science and Analytics staff in a workshop to discover what the new Faculty Dashboard means to your teaching and your faculty ePortfolio. ​​ Do you want to gather with colleagues in a safe, online format? Participate in a...

**Please note that the following opportunities are available to all faculty and staff.**   LinkedIn Learning   LinkedIn Learning- Recommended Course of the Week Building Resilience as a Leader ~ 42 minutes Research tells us that resilience is one of the key attributes of successful leaders. Resilience can help you face challenges, navigate obstacles, and thrive in your role. But it can also help you lead your team and your business to bigger and better results. In this course, psychologist and executive coach Gemma Leigh Roberts helps you develop a resilient mindset, a resilient team, and a resilient organization, which can weather risk and change.  All employees can utilize LinkedIn Learning: SLCC Learn We would appreciate feedback by taking a short survey on LinkedIn. New Employees Virtual Bruin Beginnings November 2, 2020 1:00-2:00pm Welcome to Salt Lake Community College! We know many of you started your new position at a time of tremendous change and uncertainly in...

Grant Fuhst "The Touch," 2015, Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 x 1 1/2 inches, Permanent Collection Location: Taylorsville Redwood, Markosian Library, Basement --- With the Salt Lake Community College President’s Art Show fast approaching, Collection Technician James Walton spoke with three artists whose works were exhibited at the annual exhibition and subsequently purchased by the college for its permanent art collection. ---      I f you didn’t know better, you might think that Grant Fuhst’s painting “The Touch” was created during quarantine. The Salt Lake based mixed media artist creates art in a wide variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, comic books, album covers, film, graphic design, illustration and even concept art for video games.   Purchased at the 2015 President’s Art Show, this seemingly prophetic acrylic on panel is part of a series Fuhst (pronounced “Foost”) was developing in 2015 that deals with themes of spirituality. “It's about trying to conne...

Ryan Moffett's piece "Disconnect" from the 2015 Art Show was purchased for the college's permanent collection.      T he year was 1994. Photography Professor Terry Martin (below left) and Academic Advisor Gordon Storrs (below right) were fed up with the damaged, faded posters and other less-than-appealing pictures adorning the walls of the college. After some healthy commiseration, they determined that the institution was in desperate need of an art committee. “I remember going into (President Frank Budd’s) office asking for funds to support an art committee to purchase artwork, remove posters and other silliness from walls and host two art shows per year” recalls Martin, a gregarious photography guru with a silver mop of hair, mischievous grin and tiki adorned button up. “I think that we even suggested to name the show after Mr. Budd or call it ’The President's Invitational Art Show.’”   Storrs, a walking encyclopedia of college history with an impossibly graci...