Open Doors to SLCC: Door Decorating Contest

Door Decorating Contest

As part of President Peterson’s Inauguration Celebration, SLCC is excited to announce the “Open Door” Contest! We’re inviting all College departments to showcase their school spirit and creativity by decorating their department’s entry doors with the theme “SLCC Opens Doors” while following SLCC’s Posting Guidelines and Facilities Clings Procedure.

Contest Details:

Theme: SLCC Opens Doors

How to Enter: Decorate your department’s entry door and post a photo to Instagram, tagging @SaltLakeCC.

Submission: Submissions must be made by Thursday, September 18, by 7 p.m., either by uploading a photo of the door on the department's Instagram and tagging us # SaltLakeCC, or if the department does not have an Instagram account, please email the submission photo to Verónica Aguilera at vaguiler@slcc.edu with the subject line: Open Door Contest.

Winners: Judging will begin Friday, September 19th and winners will be announce Wednesday October 1 on SLCC Today. 

Price: The winning department will receive catered lunch!

All rules and guidelines must be followed in order to be eligible to win.

Contest Rules & Guidelines

To ensure your entry qualifies, please follow these important rules. Failure to comply will result in disqualification.

Safety First:
Decorations must not obstruct walkways, cover glass on doors (within 24" from the floor or above 60"), or block essential signage. All displays must be safe and must not damage SLCC property.

Approved Materials:
Only use painter’s tape to attach decorations. Please do not use any other adhesives that could cause damage.

No Ceiling Decorations or Helium Balloons:
For fire safety, nothing may be hung from the ceiling, and helium balloons are not allowed.

Clean Up:
All decorations must be removed including all tape and tape residue must be removed. If you need assistance with removing residue or if damage occurs, please report it promptly to Fix It.

We can’t wait to see the creativity, energy, and Bruin pride your department will bring to this celebration. Let’s have fun and take care of our shared spaces as we open doors to opportunity—together.

Happy decorating, Bruins! Good luck to all!

Presentation Topics for Provost Search Finalists

The topics below have been shared with the finalists, and they will have 10 - 15 minutes to present on a topic of choice with 25 minutes for questions after their presentations.

Visionary Leadership for the Future of Our College: Shaping Student Success, Academic Excellence, and Faculty Growth

As the incoming Provost, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our institution. Please share your vision for Salt Lake Community College over the next five years, focusing on strategies to enhance student success, strengthen academic excellence, and support faculty development. Include examples of past experiences where your leadership led to measurable outcomes and discuss how you plan to build upon the college's current strengths while addressing potential challenges.
 
Transformational Leadership: Inspiring Innovation, Empowering Growth, and Driving Lasting Change

Discuss your approach to leading impactful change within Salt Lake Community College. Please include strategies for fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, empowering faculty and staff to exceed their potential, building shared ownership of student success with non-instructional areas of the college, and successfully navigating challenges to achieve long-term institutional goals. Please share specific examples of past experiences where good leadership sparked positive transformation and strengthened community engagement.
 
Innovating for Success: Advancing Education, Partnerships, and Workforce Readiness in Community Colleges

Present your ideas for leveraging emerging technologies and pedagogical practices to improve student outcomes. Please share strategies for increasing retention and graduation rates, strengthening community partnerships, and aligning academic programs with evolving workforce needs.

Call for Nominations for Student Criminal Justice Biannual Awards

Awards are given by the Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association at the Fall and Spring Biannual Crime, Justice, and Equity Conference held at Salt Lake Community College.

Deadline November 30

Outstanding Academic Achievement

This biannual award is for a graduating criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has the highest GPA overall. This award is an objective award that does not have a nomination process and is determined by comparing all GPAs of criminal justice student majors that are graduating that academic semester.

Outstanding Inclusivity and Equity Achievement

This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has an active commitment and engagement in direct advocacy toward justice, equity, and inclusion of a marginalized segment of society such as, but not limited to, People of Color, immigrants, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, those incarcerated, women, youth, survivors, houseless, economically disadvantaged people, nonhuman animals, and the environment. We recognize that oppression exists, and that action needs to be taken to address inequity and injustices in society.

Nominations can be submitted by a student, professor, administrators, or staff at SLCC. The award is determined by the Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association. Click Here

Outstanding Service Achievement

This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has an active commitment and engagement in serving voluntarily, and not as a paid job or internship, within the community at a government agency or social service nonprofit organization that is not religiously, or political party affiliated. Serving others and the community is a central part of justice and a healthy community.

Nominations can be submitted by a student, professor, administrators, or staff at SLCC. The award is determined by the Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association. Click Here

Outstanding Health and Wellbeing Achievement

This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has an active commitment and engagement in personal fitness, health, and mental wellbeing. We want to support students and not shame students for taking care of themselves over academics. As schools have led to a high rate of student anxiety, depression, unhealthy dietary and physical habits, and suicide. Further, the field of criminal justice has fostered similar habits too. This person must regularly demonstrate in their personal life self-care, such as, but not limited, exercising, involvement in organized athletic competitions, eating healthy, and seeking out counseling and advising.

Nominations can be submitted by a student, professor, administrators, or staff at SLCC. The award is determined by the Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association. Click Here

Outstanding Rise Up Achievement

This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community that has succeed against many personal social adversities, such as death in the family, unsheltered, drug use, incarceration, domestic violence, or theft.

Nominations can be submitted by a student, professor, administrators, or staff at SLCC. The award is determined by the Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association. Click Here

Outstanding Scholarship Achievement Award

This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community that engages in research, scholarship, organizing academic publications and events, and participates in furthering their knowledge, education, and learning through reading, writing, attending forums, clubs, organization, and watching films.

Nominations can be submitted by a student, professor, administrators, or staff at SLCC. The award is determined by the Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association. Click Here

The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (ODMA) changes name to Student Engagement, Experience, and Achievement (SEEA)

Effective May 9, 2024, the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (ODMA) is changing its name to Student Engagement, Experience, and Achievement (SEEA). Our commitment to supporting, advocating for and celebrating the multifaceted experiences of all SLCC students will continue through the Dream Center, the Gender and Sexuality Student Resource Center, and the Student Involvement and Culture Center (formerly the Student Involvement Center). The URL to our webpage will change to slcc.edu/SEEA.

Safe Hire Training Program

A memorandum to the SLCC campus community, from Richard Enyard, PhD, Associate Vice President of People and Workplace Culture.

People and Workplace Culture is pleased to announce the launching of the new Safe Hire Training Program. The Safe Hire Training Program is a program designed to ensure that SLCC is legally compliant in its hiring processes. The Safe Hire Training Program replaces the Search Advocate Training Program — it will ensure that all hiring committees (faculty and staff) are legally compliant. This change updates the training and information provided to search committees and anyone serving on a search committee. The Safe Hire Training Program will provide our search committees with the most up-to-date information on interviewing/hiring. 

The Safe Hire Training Program will focus on: Equal Employment Opportunity, uniform hiring guidelines in the hiring/selection process, how to form a search committee and its functions, Federal and State Laws governing legally compliant hiring, how to identify and ask legally appropriate interview questions, and the completion of the I-9 process. 

The new Safe Hire Training Program will have a pre-launch date of April 19, 2024, at the Focus and Learn Day and a May 1, 2024, launch, at the Supervisors' Guidance Meeting. The official launch of the Safe Hire Training Program will take place on June 18, 2024 at the Hiring Bootcamp. All who attend these sessions will receive credit for attendance and completion. Please note, all hiring managers and any employee interested in serving on a search committee must first complete the Safe Hire Training Program. This training must be renewed every two (2) years. For those attending the above mentioned training dates, attendance and participation will be recorded to ensure that you will receive credit for attending the training.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Search Advocates for all the work you have done to move SLCC forward. I look forward to your continued participation and support as we ensure that we have a hiring program that is fair and equitable. I appreciate your patience, as we developed this new training. 

If you have any questions, please contact the Employment Team at 801-957-4210 or at hr@slcc.edu. 

SLCC Printing Services to Move to new TAB Building

SLCC Printing Services is on the move! Our printing services department will be moving to its permanent home in the new Technical Arts Building (TAB) on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus. The bulk of the move will take place March 4-8. During this time, please anticipate slightly longer turnaround time, as the printing equipment will need to be disassembled and moved from the West Valley Center.

The second part of the move will take place in mid-March, which involves moving the Customer Service location of Printing Services from the portable building on the north side of the Taylorsville Redwood Campus to the TAB. Be aware there may also be minor service disruptions during that move. Until this secondary move is completed, Printing Services’ Customer Service department will continue to operate out of the Portable Building.

Also worth remembering, SLCC Printing Services has First Right of Refusal on all printing projects for the College. All printing projects (including but not limited to: signs and banners, booklets, books, brochures, printed apparel orders, printed swag orders, stickers and other applications with college logos and artwork, etc.) must be presented to SLCC Printing Services for production. Outside vendors may only be contacted if Printing Services gives permission or has stated that they are unable to complete an order in house. See SLCC’s policy at https://www.slcc.edu/policies/docs/2.1.030---college-procurement.pdf for more details.

Water Bottle Initiative

For 2024, while recycling is important, we are going to be focusing on reducing, reusing, and REFILLING. 

Here at SLCC, there are water bottle refilling stations in every building, on every campus. Let’s leave single use plastic water bottles in 2023 and start remembering to bring our own bottles to refill! 

Starting March 1, through the end of April, there will be QR codes on the water refilling stations for a competition. To participate, refill your water bottle and then scan the code every time and fill out the brief form. Every time you fill out the form, it will act as a count for how many times you have refilled your water bottle in the two-month challenge. 

May 1, the tallies will be counted, and the top two winners will be announced. The first-place winner will receive a sweatshirt blanket. The second-place winner will get an awesome water bottle; both are courtesy from the SLCC campus store! Let’s get into the habit of reusing what we have and work together to do our part, making SLCC a more sustainable place to be.