About SLCC
Salt Lake Community College

Under the direction of President Cynthia A. Bioteau Salt Lake Community College is an accredited, multi-campus college serving the diverse needs of the Salt Lake City community. With an open-door enrollment policy, the College serves more than 60,000 students through credit and non-credit courses and workshops each year, making it the largest institution of higher education in Utah.

To accommodate student needs, SLCC has three full-service campuses: South City, Taylorsville Redwood, Jordan; eleven teaching centers located throughout the Salt Lake Valley and an eCampus for distance learning. Courses are offered in both traditional and accelerated semesters, during the day, at night and on weekends. Even in the face of dramatically increasing student enrollments, the College has preserved its personal feel by maintaining a student to faculty ratio of just to 20 to 1.

The Six Pillars of a Community College

At Salt Lake Community College, we know that the well-being of any community depends on the success of those who live, work and learn within it. For nearly 60 years, we’ve strived to enrich communities across the Wasatch Front by providing a broad range of market-driven, educational opportunities.

From general education, transfer programs, and career and technical education, to on-the-job training, re-training, and apprenticeships, continuing education, entrepreneurial support, and much more – we’re building tomorrow’s workforce and strengthening Utah’s economy every day.

But our long-term success hasn’t happened by chance. It’s built on a proven structure that integrates six important educational components – what we’d like to call “The Six Pillars of a Community College:”

  1. Developmental Education
  2. Career and Technical Education
  3. General Education and Transfer Programs
  4. Adult and Community Education
  5. Community Services Education
  6. Business and Economic Development

Individually, each of these pillars play a critical role in educating students. Working together, they provide an educational powerhouse for continued economic growth that helps ensure the success of our students and community.

Community Partnerships

Under the direction of President Cynthia A. Bioteau, Salt Lake Community College continues to expand its role as the community's college. The College's more than 500 business and school district partnerships contribute both to the growth of Salt Lake Community College and provide the highly-skilled workforce necessary to strengthen Utah's economy. The results of these partnerships can be seen throughout the college. A few examples:

  • The Larry H. Miller Entrepreneurship Training Center, located on the Miller Campus, was completed in fall 2001 through a partnership with Larry H. Miller. Other business partnership programs housed at the Miller Campus include: Utah's only ACT Center; an extensive Automotive Training Center; the only CAD Applications Training Center in the Intermountain west; and the College's small business incubator project.
  • The Science and Industry Building on Redwood Campus was built through a partnership with Union Pacific Railroad.