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June will soon be over, and with it, the close of Pride Month. Events provided by SLCC’s Gender and Sexuality Student Resource Center (GSSRC) throughout the month have given students, faculty, staff and the wider community ample opportunity to celebrate and learn. One such event was the Two-Spirit Powwow, a collaborative effort between the Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake (UICSL) and various groups at SLCC, including the GSSRC, the American Indian Student Leadership Club , the Community Writing Center and the Student Writing and Reading Center . Kristina Groves (right) gives welcome from UICSL at Two-Spirit Powwow.        The half-day family-friendly event at SLCC’s Student Center on the Redwood Campus featured non-competitive traditional and modern dance categories, called by professional emcee Eric Watchman ...

Marian Howe-Taylor holding the  Outstanding Achievement Award for Racial Equity & Social Justice. Marian Howe-Taylor, manager of special projects for the School of Arts, Communication and Media , received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Racial Equity & Social Justice at YWCA Utah’s 2021-22 LeaderLuncehon on May 20. The LeaderLuncheon is YWCA Utah’s signature event and honors five women in Utah who have had an immense impact in their respective fields. Howe-Taylor received the award for her work in education, culture and the arts. In attendance were President Huftalin; Provost Sanders, PhD; Juone Kadiri, PhD, vice president for Institutional Equity, Inclusion and Transformation; Richard Scott, dean of the School of Art, Communication and Media; and Howe-Taylor’s mentees, SLCC Distinguished Alumni Tashelle B. Wright, PhD, and Juan Pereira, PhD, assistant professor for Performing Arts. Keynote speaker Angela Davis, a political activist, academic and author com...

Marchers with Salt Lake Community College joined an estimated 70,000 people June 5 in Salt Lake City for the first Pride Parade held in three years due to the pandemic. Among the SLCC participants, one SLCC Brutus, the Bruin mascot, and about 50 students, faculty, staff and their friends and family danced, waved flags and beat drums as they looped through the streets of downtown Salt Lake City. Marchers representing a entire family lead the SLCC group with a banner from the SLCC Gender and Sexuality Student Resource Center that read “You Belong Here.” As SLCC marchers passed the announcer's stand, the crowd cheered wildly when it was broadcast that SLCC is the most diverse publicly-supported institution of higher education in Utah.  The history of the Pride Parade dates back to summer 1970 and an anniversary march held to commemorate protests from the previous year that broke out because of a violent police raid at a gay bar in New York City. What became known as the Stonewall rio...

Lucy Smith Pronouns: She/her Degrees earned and institutions: BFA and MS with an experiential education emphasis from the University of Utah Years at SLCC: 9 Current title: Director of Engaged Learning Department: Office of Learning Advancement Previous jobs at SLCC: Service-Learning Coordinator What is a typical day or week like for you? I help build supportive college infrastructures so faculty can implement high-impact practices (community-engaged learning, study abroad and domestic study) in the curriculum. A significant portion of my time is spent organizing and conducting workshops, training, faculty professional development and conference planning. I provide support to community-engaged learning and study abroad faculty by facilitating formal course designation processes and funding. I am also an adjunct faculty member in the Exercise Science program , so I teach regularly. What are the most challenging aspects of your job? One of the most challeng...

A holiday that has long been recognized among Black communities in the United States is now being celebrated more and more by all races, nationalities, and religions since it was declared an official federal holiday last year. "This is a time for education, reflection and acknowledging a period of history that has shaped, and continues to shape, our society,” says Jerri A. Harwell, chair of the Department of English, Linguistics and Writing Studies. Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) is also known as African American Emancipation Day. It marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came two and a half years after signing the Emancipation Proclamation. In Galveston, General Gordon Granger read the proclamation that stated all enslaved people were free; th...

  Elizabeth Rodriguez Being the first in her family to attend college is everything right now for Elizabeth Rodriguez. Her tears that instantly flow are proof when asked how her parents, sitting right next to her, might feel about her plans. Elizabeth’s father, Ignacio Rodriguez, reaches out for his daughter, wraps his arms around her and lets her know he’s proud.   Rodriguez’s father, mother Patricia Camarillo and younger brother Daniel were among about 150 people who attended a recent event to honor graduating high school students who completed TRIO ETS and PACE programs through Salt Lake Community College. The students’ successes in those programs means most will now attend SLCC on scholarship.   Each program emphasizes helping first-generation students and those from low-income families reach certain academic, career and personal goals throughout high school, college and beyond. TRIO’s ETS (Educational Talent Search) program works with students in eight middle and h...

Norma Carr at The Utah Sports Hall of Fame. One sentence signed into law by President Richard Nixon 50 years ago forever changed education and sports in America: “No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” Salt Lake Community College is a co-sponsor of a special exhibit at The Utah Sports Hall of Fame celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX on June 23, 1972. The exhibit features 10 pioneers in the state of Utah who paved the way for and worked to implement this historic law. “This landmark legislation established competitive equity, removed barriers for women and girls, and created new and greater opportunities in ...