FALL 2015 PG. 10 ADMINISTRATORS TOUTED FOR OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PG. 43 EXPANSION: NEW WEST VALLEY CENTER PG. 45 6TH IN THE NATION FOR DEGREES AWARDED CRJ700 JET SIMULATOR AT WESTPOINTE SLCC SNAPSHOTS Students pose at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus during a photo shoot for the First Year Experience handbook. FALL 2015 | SLCC.EDU TOP LEFT: Students on the first day at the newly opened West Valley Center.TOP RIGHT: A volunteer mugs for the camera during the fall job fair. MIDDLE RIGHT: Jennifer Joiner offers students a free T-shirt at the South City Campus. BOTTOM RIGHT: Special Assistant to the President Dr. Roderic Land addresses hundreds of Latino students visiting SLCC. BOTTOM LEFT: A student at South City Campus is excited for her first day. FALL 2015 | SLCC MAGAZINE 2 SLCC student and artist Kenneth Gonzalez poses with a piece he created for a student art show at South City Campus. 3 FALL 2015 | SLCC.EDU 1 2 3 4 5 6 1: SLCC President Dr. Deneece G. Huftalin appears on Ch. 2’s Fresh Living show to talk about Utah College Application Week. 2: Sandra Ence Paul kicks off the High Style fashion exhibit at South City Campus. 3: Buddhist monks receive help signing up for classes at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus. 4: The cast of “Young Frankenstein” performs at the Grand Theatre. 5: Students take part in taping a talk show for SLCC TV. 6: A performer shows off African dance moves at the Alder Amphitheater. FALL 2015 | SLCC MAGAZINE 4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Gail Miller, Chair Clint W. Ensign, Vice Chair ere’s something about trying to y a CRJ700 Sanchaita Datta Maria Farrington commercial jet – albeit not an actual jet full David W. Lang of people – just one time that gives you a W. Tim Miller new appreciation for the skills and expertise Carlos Moreno, Student Body President Patricia Richards demonstrated by commercial airline pilots every Annie V. Schwemmer, SLCC Alumni day. My cabinet and I recently took the controls Association President Jim M. Wall of Salt Lake Community College’s new CRJ700 simulator at our Westpointe Center and realized SLCC EXECUTIVE CABINET Deneece G. Huftalin, PhD just how dicult and nuanced those takeos President and landings can be. You can read about SLCC’s Clifton Sanders, PhD plans for the new simulator – and reactions of Provost for Academic Affairs Charles Lepper, PhD those who have taken a turn at it – in this edition Vice President for Student Affairs of SLCC Magazine. Barbara Grover Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness You’ll also see what an exciting fall semester we’ve had, with visits to campus Roderic Land, PhD Special Assistant to the President by journalist and author Naomi Klein who drew more than 800 people to Dennis Klaus the Grand eatre on our South City Campus, and by NPR’s Planet Money Vice President for Business Services reporters Stacey Vanek Smith and David Kestenbaum. We witnessed the grand Alison McFarlane Vice President for Institutional opening of our West Valley Center, a visit by a Navy rear admiral to our award- Advancement winning Veterans Center on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus, and a “greener” Tim Sheehan Vice President for Government and college overall with the expansion of our alternative fuel vehicle eet. Community Relations SLCC Magazine is published by While it’s important that we share meaningful student stories, updates on the Institutional Marketing and sta and faculty, and awards we’ve won to give you a glimpse of the important Communications Department of Salt Lake footprint of SLCC in our community, I also believe photography can be more Community College. All rights reserved. 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Comments are welcome and should be sent via email to: institutionalmarketing@ slcc.edu or via U.S. Post to: Most sincerely, SLCC Magazine Salt Lake Community College Institutional Marketing and Communications, MKTG P.O. Box 30808 Deneece G. Huftalin, PhD Salt Lake City, Utah 84130-0808 President © 2015 by Salt Lake Community College 5 FALL 2015 | SLCC.EDU TABLE OF CONTENTS FALL 2015 Going Green 17 COVER STORY PG. 27: CRJ700 Jet Simulator SECTIONS Goldman Sachs’ Utah19 Success 1 SLCC Snapshots 7 Trustees and Administrators 9 Faculty 10 Innovation 11 Students 13 Awards 17 Green 19 Community 23 SLCC Values Donor Boosts STEM Initiatives37 31 Awareness 33 Workforce Education & Training 36 Inclusivity 37 Giving 40 Alumni 43 SLCC News 46 Op-Ed Alumnus succeeds as40 top chef FALL 2015 | SLCC MAGAZINE 6 TRUSTEES Maria Farrington W. Tim Miller Jim M. Wall Three members added to SLCC Board of Trustees Maria Farrington is a community leader W. Tim Miller has been president/ Jim M. Wall served as publisher of with more than 20 years experience in local CEO of Echelon-Frontier since early Deseret News Publishing Company Inc. not-for-prot organizations and schools. She 2002. He has been recognized by the U.S. from 2000 to 2010. He was director of recently was appointed as the new executive Small Business Administration for job Bonneville International Corp. Prior to that, director of Holy Cross Ministries. She has creation and commercialization and has he served as executive vice president and served as chief executive ocer of Discovery deep experience in building Fortune 500 general manager of the Denver Post. His Gateway children’s museum in Salt Lake divisions and successful business startups career has been spent in many positions City, and developed a variety of educational and exits, including IPO, in pharmaceuticals, in the newspaper industry. Wall has been partnerships to benet and expand the diagnostics, and medical device markets. active in each of the communities where museum throughout the Intermountain Past senior management positions include he has lived and worked, including in West. Her prior experience also includes Wyeth, Marion Laboratories (Sano/ e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day seven years as executive director of the Aventis), and American Hospital Supply/ Saints; executive board positions with the Eccles Annenberg Initiative in the Salt Lake Baxter. He has an MBA from the United Way; local chambers of commerce; City School District, executive director of University of Utah where he graduated community economic development; College Community Collaboration for United Way rst in class with honors and teaches as Board of Trustees; Boy Scouts of America; of Salt Lake and president and executive an adjunct instructor. He was awarded theater, opera and symphony boards; and director of Communities in Schools of San Utah’s Governor’s Medal for Science and charitable organizations. He is a constant Antonio, a dropout prevention initiative to Technology for 2011. For multiple years, presence in the community and has bring needed educational services to county he has been recognized as one of Utah’s participated on more than 20 Utah boards school districts in San Antonio, Texas. top venture entrepreneurs. He established or committees. In 2004, Wall was honored She received bachelor’s degrees from the Angel Flight (angelight.org) in Utah in as the American Heart Association’s “Heart University of Houston and attended the 1999 to provide free nonemergency medical of Utah” recipient. He attended Washington University of Utah for a Master’s in Public air transportation, started Santa Flight in State University for one year and later Administration. She is married to Bob 2001 for needy Utah children, and was team graduated from Brigham Young University Farrington and has two sons. liaison with the U.S. Men’s Ice Hockey Team with a degree in communications in 1972. during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics. He is a pilot, nationally recognized ight instructor, ies his own plane, and periodically plays in a local blues band. 7 FALL 2015 | SLCC.EDU ADMINISTRATORS Dr. Clifton Sanders Dr. Charles Lepper Richard Scott Sanders named lepper named scott named Provost of vp of student dean of arts and Academic Affairs affairs communication Salt Lake Community College When Dr. Charles Lepper ew in to Richard Scott was named Dean of the President Dr. Deneece G. Huftalin this Salt Lake City from Virginia to interview SLCC School of Arts, Communication past summer named Dr. Clifton Sanders for the job of Salt Lake Community & Media in May. “Richard brings an as Provost of Academic Aairs. For College Vice President for Student Aairs, understanding of institutional history, the past 20 years, Sanders has been a he asked a cab driver on the way to his academic leadership, strategic planning faculty member, division chair, dean and hotel about her impression of SLCC. “She and an impressive record of community an interim vice president. “Dr. Sanders said, ‘Oh, it’s an institution on the move,’” engagement to Academic Aairs along with brings an understanding of institutional Lepper recalled her saying.