Collaborative Work Team

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Salt Lake Community College has a long history of serving students from underrepresented communities. Although SLCC is the most diverse higher education institution in Utah, its student population is less diverse than Salt Lake County. For the past five years, our equity and completion strategies have sought to represent all racialized populations in enrollment and graduation at a 1:1 ratio, mirroring County demographics. As the largest minoritized population at SLCC, Latinx/a/o students face unique systemic barriers in college. Consequently, in 2020-2021, college leadership endorsed a recommendation from Strategy 10: Close the Completion Gap through Targeted Supports to establish the Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution Collaborative Work Team (CWT). The overarching goal of the Emerging HSI CWT is to address the needs of Latinx/a/o students and focus on developing and implementing a formalized plan for SLCC to become an HSI.

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2022-2023 Goals

• Build organizational infrastructure throughout the college to support SLCC becoming an HSI which includes, 
  • Participating in national organization conference to learn about emerging practices that could benefit students, employees and the larger SLC community. 
  • Creating Spanish language inclusion in person and across the SLCC website. 
  • Engaging of Latinx communities through employment and soliciting input in areas impacting the community. 
  • Academic Affairs inclusion in areas like General Education and creating an Ethnic Studies program 

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