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WINTER / SPRING 2019 FACULTY INSPIRE STUDENT SUCCESS P. 18 SNAPSHOTS We’ve Got Heart: Dr. Clifton Sanders, SLCC provost, center, in a promotional video with Academic Advising Director Ashley Sokia, far left, and Institute of Public Safety Administrative Assistant Stormie Dawn, right of Sanders. Students are in the background. Top: Junior high and high school students break it down at Grand Youth Camp, hosted by SLCC’s Grand Theatre. Middle: Students Carlina Matayo, left, and Simba Kunda, on the first day of Fall Semester 2018. Bottom: SLCC faculty, staff and students march in the 2018 Utah Pride Parade. WINTER / SPRING 2019 | SLCC.EDU 1 CONTENTS SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | WINTER/SPRING 2019 The Tim and Brenda Huval Child Care Center is expanding to serve more SLCC 5 students with children. FEATURES 5 14 38 46 SOUTH CITY CAMPUS REACHING DREAMS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SLCC @ 70 A $1.1 million grant Jasmin Topete is driven Natalie Kaddas credits Celebrating seven offers more child care for to become a social worker, SLCC for success in decades, a look back SLCC students. aided by a scholarship. business. in photos. 2 SLCC MAGAZINE | WINTER / SPRING 2019 46 SLCC Magazine is published biannually by the SLCC Institutional Advancement Division, 801-957-4000. Vice President for Institutional Advancement Alison McFarlane Managing Editor 14 DB Troester Lead Writer and Photographer Stephen Speckman Lead Designer 38 Carol Ross Media Relations Joy Tlou SECTIONS Alumni Relations 4 BY THE NUMBERS Laurie Staton 5 SLCC NEWS Editorial Advisers 10 CAREERS Peggy Hoffman Nancy Michalko 12 GIVING Dr. Jason Pickavance 14 STUDENTS 12 18 FACULTY The Gail Miller Available online at: slcc.edu/about/slccmagazine.aspx 38 ALUMNI Utah Leadership Cup raises a 42 COLLEGE SPOTLIGHT record amount for 44 COMMUNITY scholarships. 46 MILESTONES WINTER / SPRING 2019 | SLCC.EDU 3 BY THE NUMBERS SLCC faculty have attended Harvard, Columbia and other prestigious schools. They’ve received top honors from Utah’s best schools, and represent a diverse mix of educational technique, innovation and devotion to student success. 328 Full-time faculty 11 3,633 Average years Combined years teaching teaching 1,186 Part-time faculty 66 Doctorate degrees 716 260 Master’s degrees Total 296 Bachelor’s degrees degrees 94 Associate’s degrees All stats are for full-time faculty, unless otherwise noted. Source: SLCC Institutional Research and Reporting. Read more about SLCC’s accomplished faculty. P. 18 4 SLCC MAGAZINE | WINTER / SPRING 2019 SLCC NEWS Giving back The Tim and Brenda Huval Child Care Center was named for the Huvals in 2015. A graduate of SLCC, Tim went on to become a top banking and health care executive. The Huvals’ philanthropic support has touched the lives of thousands of children and parents through services offered at the child care center. HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED Grant doubles child care capacity at South City Campus The Tim and Brenda Huval up 64 percent of project costs and Child Care Center at South City runs through September 2022. Campus will expand to serve “For students who have children more children of SLCC students, at SLCC, this means that they broadening support for parents can focus their attention from seeking careers and degrees. juggling the cost of child care The center recently was awarded to successfully finishing their a $1.1 million U.S. Department educational goals,” says Holly of Education grant. Funds will Garcia, director of the center. be used to expand hours until “They will be able to afford to take 10 p.m. and add classrooms, more classes, have child care while effectively doubling capacity to applying $390,000, or 36 percent they study, and graduate with 180 enrolled children. The grant of the project cost, for child care less debt. This can make all the will enable hiring more full-time, vouchers and to support one-time difference in the world.” benefited staff. The college will renovation and ongoing program match the four-year grant by costs. The federal grant makes WINTER / SPRING 2019 | SLCC.EDU 5 SLCC NEWS SLCC WINS COVETED DIVERSITY GRANT Salt Lake Community College was one of 19 applicants to receive a coveted diversity grant from the Lumina Foundation. More than 300 applied for the $25,000 award to fund efforts to foster social and SLCC EXPANDS TO HERRIMAN racial justice. The money will be used to In August, SLCC began baccalaureate degrees offered by create recommendations and offering general education classes the University of Utah. guidelines for improving in Herriman at the former When completed, the new racial justice at SLCC City Hall. Future plans call for building will include programs and to provide training building a new campus on acreage in nursing, information systems for faculty on social and owned by SLCC in that city. and computer science, teacher racial justice awareness. It The college is pursuing state training, economics, business, will be used to implement funding to build the first building criminology, sustainable tourism socially equitable practices on the site. It will be a joint and hospitality management. The in classrooms and to fund effort with the University of building will offer a full range workshops on social and Utah. Students will be able to of services including admissions, racial justice for the college earn certificates and associate’s advising, tutoring and transfer community. degrees from SLCC and continue support for both SLCC and the The Indianapolis-based seamlessly on-site to earn University of Utah. Lumina Foundation is a private organization committed to making CHEMISTRY STUDENTS GET REACTION opportunities for learning beyond high school available SLCC’s student affiliate chapter the ACS Green Chemistry award for all. College officials of the American Chemical Society and designated a green chemistry hope to expand partnerships (ACS) won the Outstanding chapter for the 2018/2019 school with Lumina in the future. Chapter Award for 2017/2018, the year. highest ACS honor bestowed on The chapter in the past year student chapters. raised nearly $18,000 through The award will be presented service projects for six local at the ACS national conference charities; visited 14 elementary in Orlando, Florida, in spring schools, providing hands-on 2019. It also will be announced in chemical demonstrations to over Chemical and Engineering News, 1,000 students; and presented the official ACS magazine. In undergraduate research at the ACS addition, the chapter was awarded National Meeting in New Orleans. 6 SLCC MAGAZINE | WINTER / SPRING 2019 Wherever you go and whatever you do, Salt Lake Community College is a part of your journey. We value our graduates and want you to stay connected. If you’ve graduated with a degree from Salt Lake Community College or even attended one class, you’re one of hundreds of thousands whose lives have been touched by SLCC. Be a part of our Alumni Association and receive the free biannual SLCC Magazine and our email newsletter, as well as a host of other benefits. Learn more at slcc.edu/alumni To join the alumni association and enjoy free benefits, contact Laurie Staton at [email protected] or 801-957-4654. WINTER / SPRING 2019 | SLCC.EDU 7 SLCC NEWS 8 SLCC MAGAZINE | WINTER / SPRING 2019 SLCC NEWS MEETING WORKFORCE NEEDS SLCC’s new Westpointe Workforce Training & Education Center near Salt Lake City International Airport officially opened in September with a community celebration and nontraditional ribbon-joining ceremony. The 121,000-square-foot center trains students for in-demand tech and vocational careers, preparing them to meet the needs of Utah’s high-growth economy for decades to come. The $43 million facility was funded by the State Legislature and more than $1.5 million in private donations. Private donors: Kenworth Sales Company, Inc. The Katherine W. Dumke and Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Foundation Merit Medical Electron Heat Sorenson Legacy Foundation L3 Technologies Cummins Inc. Komatsu Equipment Kilgore Companies Scott Machinery/Intermountain Bobcat American Welding Society Boeing Industrial Supply Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation Lincoln Electric Company Frank Buckler WINTER / SPRING 2019 | SLCC.EDU 9 CAREERS Prescription for high-demand career Pharmacy tech options are plentiful n one year, Dillon Rasmussen for specialization and upward hours of on-the-job training in a went from working in retail to mobility,” says Kristie Fitzgerald, working pharmacy, in August 2018 serving a critical role in patient R.Ph. and program manager of for Magellan Health. The company careI as a pharmacy technician. SLCC’s pharmacy technician hired him full time as a pharmacy Rasmussen, 27, had considered program. technician, the fifth SLCC student careers from history teacher to Graduates receive a certificate to join Magellan. truck driver, but injuries from a car of completion from SLCC and accident altered his options. An are prepared to sit for the national SLCC staff member encouraged certification exam. They also may PHARMACY TECHNICIAN him to apply to the pharmacy apply for licensure with the Utah EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS technician program. Division of Occupational and Retail pharmacies The three-semester program Professional Licensing. Hospitals teaches students to use computer Training from the accredited systems that allow pharmacies program is recognized in all 50 Clinics to fill prescriptions. Curriculum states and qualifies graduates Sterile compounding pharmacies includes medications and how they for a higher entry-level pay rate. work, insurance claim processing, Starting wage for SLCC pharmacy Home health state and federal laws and more. technicians locally is about $30,000 Hospice a year. “This training is a very Claims adjudication affordable option for a career that Rasmussen completed his is in high demand and offers areas program externship, a required 200 Specialty pharmacies 10 SLCC MAGAZINE | WINTER / SPRING 2019 CAREERS Me, a teacher? Definitely! SLCC partnership provides quicker path to teaching elly Wallis had just sold his concert- production rental company and was well- positioned to enjoy decades of retirement whenK he got the call that changed everything.