Salt Lake Community College

Following budget cuts spurred by the Legislature’s higher ed reinvestment plan, Salt Lake Community College’s Community Writing Center has been put on the chopping block.

There was one dissenting vote on the recommendation from the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee. The higher ed budget reinvestments were mandated by the Legislature.

While the restructuring prioritized Salt Lake Community College’s technical training and health sciences programs, leadership argues that the arts and humanities are still an important part of the school.

Salt Lake Community College has one of the largest in-person prison education programs in the nation. Incarcerated students can also get technical certificates, a high school diploma and female inmates can also get a bachelor’s degree.

Colleges across the U.S. are reporting that some of their international students are unexpectedly having their visas revoked by the Trump Administration.

Today’s divisive political rhetoric around refugees and immigrants isn’t a new moment. novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen said it’s important to remember history: “Immigration is part of our American mythology, but so is hate and xenophobia.”

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“We know very clearly who we serve and why we serve them,” said Salt Lake Community College’s president. “I think community colleges have that legacy.”

Weber State University, Salt Lake Community College y la Universidad de Utah han dicho que quieren convertirse en instituciones al servicio de los hispanos. Es una designación federal en la que al menos 25% del cuerpo estudiantil es hispano.

Weber State University, Salt Lake Community College and The University of Utah have all said they want to become Hispanic-Serving Institutions. It’s a federal designation where at least 25% of the student body is Hispanic.

The Utah Board of Higher Education approved an average of 3.3% tuition and fee increases for the state’s public colleges.

It’s the first time two Utah higher education institutions have come together to open one campus, Salt Lake Community College President Deneece Huftalin said.