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Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) recently named Sidni Shorter, PsyD, as its first Minority Business Center (MBC) Director. The center is the result of a Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) grant awarded to SLCC last fall by the U.S. Department of Commerce to assist minority-owned businesses. The center will be located at SLCC’s Miller Campus as a division of The Mill Entrepreneurship Center.

“Sidni’s impressive professional background includes CEO of the Utah Black Chamber, small business owner, partner relations and

Salt Lake Community College and Refugee Services Office recently celebrated a combined Youth and Adult class graduation ceremony and dinner at South Campus.  Twelve adults and 19 youth completed 3 months of training to learn how to serve their communities, their families, and their government in leadership capacities.

Dressed in their cultural and finer dress clothes, the students heard speeches from their mentors, their sponsors and from fellow students.  Each received a Certificate of Completion and shared in a cultural