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Barbara Grover is retiring June 23 as Salt Lake Community College Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness. Grover earned her undergraduate degree in population biology from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Mathematics from University of Oregon. She has been at SLCC for 23 years and has served as Vice President since 2010. Most recently she has been involved with the College Coordinating Council, College Planning Council, Institutional Review Board and Student Analytics Committee. “Barbara Grover’s passion for students and their academic success has been the cornerstone of her outstanding teaching and administrative career at SLCC,” said SLCC Provost Dr. Clifton Sanders. “Her leadership in the evolution of SLCC Institutional Effectiveness, Institutional Research, Assessment and Analytics has produced an outstanding foundation for achieving excellence in our service to students and the community.” Grover was a tenured mathematics professor and a...

Salt Lake Community College will be hosting the annual Utah Sponsored Projects Administration Network (USPAN) Conference this year for the first time. The conference will be June 23, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the SLCC Taylorsville Redwood Campus. Each annual conference personnel working in research and grant administration at Utah's higher education institutions gather at a college or university in Utah to build relationships and share ideas and best practices. For the upcoming conference attendees will talk about working with government agencies to secure public funding resources, share successes of sponsored research and scholarship at their institutions and discuss how to interpret and apply government regulations. SLCC's Office of Sponsored Projects and Business Office are excited to be hosting the conference, which demonstrates the growth and depth of SLCC's sponsored project portfolio. For more information on SLCC’s Office of Sponsored Projects or USPAN, contact osp@...

With these long days of summer and lots of sunlight, the solar panels atop Salt Lake Community College’s Lifetime Activities Center (LAC) and elsewhere on SLCC campuses are soaking up the energy and making at least parts of the College operate “in the green,” so to speak. Aerial view of solar panels atop LAC While solar panels are being used on a building at SLCC’s Miller Campus, two more at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus and, in the future, atop the new building at the Westpointe Campus (scheduled to open in 2018), it’s the LAC on the Redwood Campus that comes out the big winner. In early 2015 Solar City installed more than 1,420 255-watt panels on the roof of the LAC, which in 2016 (the first full year of use) was the sole beneficiary of the 530,105 kWh of energy produced. In fact, all of the energy produced by solar panels on SLCC buildings is used on site. The initial cost of the LAC panels alone was more than $467,000, paid for with an incentive from Rocky Moun...

Dozens of Salt Lake Community College staff, faculty, students and their family members donned t-shirts with #IAMSLCC printed in a rainbow of colors across the front for the 2017 Pride Parade in Salt Lake City. Marchers with SLCC also carried a large banner with #IAMSLCC on it through the crowded downtown streets, handing out tie dyed t-shirts and inciting spontaneous dancing with sounds from members of a student-led band. Below are a few highlights from the parade.

Salt Lake Community College, during an event at the State Capitol, received Envision Utah’s “Your Utah, Your Future” award for SLCC Promise, a unique program that helps qualifying students at SLCC pay for their college education. Envision Utah also recognized the Utah Aerospace Pathways program, of which SLCC is a partner. SLCC officials receive an Envision Utah award for SLCC Promise at the State Capitol The Envision Utah award for Promise recognizes steps SLCC has taken to “advance quality growth principles” in Utah and to improve the lives of its residents. SLCC Promise helps eligible, full-time students pay for their education by covering the cost of tuition and fees when federal grants fall short. SLCC Promise has helped about 700 students, exceeding 1,000 awards worth approximately $800,000 in value since the program started last year. To be eligible for SLCC Promise funds, students first must exhaust other sources of financial aid, including...