SUMMER / FALL 2018 SNAPSHOTS Dancer Brody Rallison shares the stage with Lark & Spur at SLCC’s Grand Theatre. Top: L-R, Music students Aaron Turnblom, Alex Ford and Preston Sorenson show they are “top brass” at South City Campus. SLCC baseball player Fynn Chester makes a fast throw atop the pitcher’s mound. Bottom: Mom is all smiles as Jan Warburton pins her daughter Eryn Warburton at SLCC’s Academic Excellence Celebration. Student Barbara Cavalcanti demonstrates her talent for origami during a presentation in her public speaking class. SUMMER / FALL 2018 | SLCC.EDU 1 CONTENTS SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | SUMMER/FALL 2018 TRAINING TOMORROW’S WORKFORCE 10 The expanded Westpointe Campus FEATURES 08 16 28 37 BREAKING THE CYCLE INVESTING IN STUDENTS COMMENCEMENT GOING FOR GOLD Single moms find careers Kenworth Sales Co. President With pomp and Alumni compete and and hope through Kyle Treadway partners with circumstance, medal in Olympic innovative training. SLCC. thousands graduate. Games in South Korea. 2 SLCC MAGAZINE | SUMMER / FALL 2018 08 16 SLCC Magazine is published biannually by the SLCC Institutional Advancement Division, 801-957-4000. Vice President for Institutional Advancement Alison McFarlane 28 Editor and PR Director Joy Tlou Managing Editor DB Troester Lead Writer and Photographer Stephen Speckman Lead Designer Carol Ross Alumni Relations SECTIONS Laurie Staton 4 SLCC NEWS Editorial Advisers 8 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Peggy Hoffman Nancy Michalko 10 CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION Dr. Jason Pickavance 16 GIVING 18 STUDENTS Available online at: 28 COMMENCEMENT slcc.edu/about/slccmagazine.aspx 36 ALUMNI 44 MEET OUR FACULTY 37 46 COLLEGE SPOTLIGHT 48 COMMUNITY SUMMER / FALL 2018 | SLCC.EDU 3 SLCC NEWS DR. HUFTALIN HONORED FOR STUDENT ADVOCACY SLCC President Deneece G. Huftalin received the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2018 President’s Award, a national honor for outstanding work in L-R, Dr. Daniel Poole, Dr. Deidre Tyler, Dr. Jason Pickavance, Dan Carpenter and Dr. Tim Beagley. student affairs. NASPA is the National Association FACULTY-LED TEAM RECEIVES INNOVATION AWARD of Student Personnel Administrators. A faculty-led team at Salt Lake traditional, more costly textbooks. Community College received the So far, OPEN SLCC helped 70,000 Online Learning Consortium’s students save nearly $6 million. Digital Learning Innovation Award SLCC was commended for the for advancing undergraduate student program on the floor of the U.S. success through the adoption of House of Representatives by Rep. digital courseware. The team was one Mia Love. of three institutions and 10 faculty- SLCC’s faculty-led team includes led teams selected from among 60 sociology professors Dr. Daniel submissions in the competition. Poole and Dr. Deidre Tyler; biology The award recognizes SLCC’s own initiative, OPEN professors Dr. Melissa Hardy, Dan Dr. Huftalin for advancing SLCC, is nationally recognized as a Carpenter and Dr. Tim Beagley; and the quality of student life leader in the use of open educational Dr. Jason Pickavance, director of by supporting the college’s resources (OER), with over 1,400 faculty development and educational Student Affairs staff and courses that use OER instead of initiatives. initiatives over a sustained period. Before becoming WRITING PROGRAM RECOGNIZED NATIONALLY college president in 2015, Dr. Huftalin led the Student Affairs division. Salt Lake the writing needs and goals of Community College’s SLCC students, staff, faculty and She continues to actively Writing Across the administrators. It provides workshops, promote collaborative College (WAC) resources and consulting to improve approaches to strengthen program received the writing and use it effectively in learning communities, inclusivity efforts, targeted Tiffany Rousculp 2018 Diana Hacker courses and to improve learning TYCA Outstanding environments. WAC was started in learning outcomes and Programs in English Award from 2014 by SLCC English instructor, improving students’ first- the Two-Year College English and now WAC director, Tiffany year experiences. Dr. Association, part of the National Rousculp, who founded the College’s Huftalin remains engaged Council of Teachers of English. Community Writing Center at the in NASPA and has held leadership roles at the state, WAC collaboratively develops Salt Lake City Main Library. regional and national levels. initiatives and programs to support 4 SLCC MAGAZINE | SUMMER / FALL 2018 SLCC NEWS SLCC MANAGER PRESENTS AT CONFERENCES IN BERLIN AND VIENNA Salt Lake Community College offering Americans insights into Business Incubator Manager Tim European and Eurasian markets. Cooley was one of 22 people selected Cooley also took a two-week tour to speak in April at the 2017 Young of Vienna, visiting local incubators, Transatlantic Innovation Leaders accelerators and venture capitalist firms. Initiative (YTILI) Berlin Closing Cooley has been manager of SLCC’s Conference and at the YTILI Business Incubator at the Miller Transatlantic Dialogue in Vienna. Campus since 2017. The Incubator The conference works to deepen assists over 100 entrepreneurs to bilateral, transatlantic relationships develop their companies. and pursue follow-up projects while GOLDMAN SACHS 10KSB ALUMNI VISIT D.C. More than 110 Utah business- owner graduates of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses training program at Salt Lake Community College attended a national summit in Washington, D.C., in February. They heard from entrepreneurs and government leaders, including Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren RETHINKING EDUCATION Buffett; Spanx CEO Sara Blakely; Virgin Group’s Richard Branson; As part of continuing efforts on Mondays and Wednesdays, and former New York City Mayor to help students succeed, Salt or Tuesdays and Thursdays, or Michael Bloomberg, among others. Lake Community College is Fridays and Saturdays, with The summit, titled The reconfiguring its class schedules to classes starting every 90 minutes, Big Power of Small Business, provide flexibility to better meet beginning at 7 a.m. showcased numerous instructors students’ needs. The schedule In addition, more three-hour who created the 10,000 Small forgoes the traditional three-day evening classes that meet one Businesses curriculum. Attendees schedule of classes on Mondays, night a week will be added. met Sen. Orrin Hatch, Rep. Wednesdays and Fridays in favor Some shorter, 50-minute classes John Curtis and Rep. Mia of meeting just twice a week will continue to meet Mondays Love. Utah entrepreneur David with longer class times. The new through Thursdays. The changes Skaggs showcased his SumBlox schedule starts in the fall 2018 will make it easier for students math-training manipulatives at semester. to create a schedule that provides a product expo tied to the event. A survey of SLCC students flexibility for busy work and The Goldman Sachs program has showed they prefer to meet twice family obligations while fostering graduated more than 6,500 small a week. The new default class success at SLCC. businesses, and the summit drew schedule will be 80-minute classes more than 2,220 to Washington. SUMMER / FALL 2018 | SLCC.EDU 5 SLCC NEWS DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURER Marlena B. Stanford students gain increased was named SLCC’s 2019 confidence in reading and Distinguished Faculty writing as well as better Lecturer. Her lecture rhetorical awareness. will explore, as a literate- She earned her rhetorical practice, the undergraduate and graduate birthing stories of 10 local degrees at Western State women. College of Colorado and As an assistant professor Colorado State University. of English at SLCC, She is a member of several Stanford emphasizes to SLCC committees, students to never be afraid including Integrated to ask for support. She is Reading and Writing, Open proud of her department’s English @ SLCC, OER progress to improve literacy and the President’s curricula for SLCC’s pre- Committee on Inclusivity transfer reading and writing and Equity. students. Those efforts help WINNINGEST COACH SLCC women’s basketball Head Coach Betsy Specketer was honored at the state Capitol by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert for her “successes and contributions to the sport of basketball” and for winning the most games at a single school — 520 to date. The governor presented Specketer with a proclamation highlighting her recognition as Coach of the Year for various regions and for her teams’ many conference and region championship victories. Specketer has been head coach at SLCC for 22 years. The women’s basketball team has attended seven National Junior College Athletic Association tournaments during that time. L-R, freshman Miki’ala Maio, Assistant Coach Marcilina Grayer, Head Coach Betsy Specketer, sophomore Rian Rawlings and sophomore Jamaica Martin at the state Capitol. 6 SLCC MAGAZINE | SUMMER / FALL 2018 SLCC NEWS GRAND THEATRE HOSTS Nikki Giovanni Poet, writer, activist and members and SLCC faculty the next year published a educator Nikki Giovanni and staff during a 40-minute second. Her latest book spoke at SLCC’s Grand presentation followed by a is “Bicycles: Love Poems.” Theatre as the 2018 question-and-answer session. She has authored 27 books Martin Luther King Jr. and published and lectured Commemorative Keynote Dubbed the “Princess of nationwide over the course of speaker, hosted by SLCC Black Poetry,” Giovanni more than three decades. She and Westminster College. published her first poetry is a University Distinguished Giovanni enthralled hundreds book, “Black Feeling Black Professor at