Salt Lake Community College – Career & Technical Education Center at Westpointe

Westpointe Presentation

SLCC 2015

SLCC Core Themes

• Open access, comprehensive community college

• 10 campuses and sites plus SLCC Online

• 20% approximately are ethnic or racial minorities

• 75% work (30% work more than 30 hours per week)

• 27 is the average age of students

Who are SLCC Students

• 61,800 Total Students Annually

• 28,414 Careers & Technical Education Students

SLCC Students by the Numbers

SLCC CTE Provider for Salt Lake County

Salt Lake

Utah

Davis

0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000

524,284

170,323

75,584

Employees Employers

SLCC Meeting Employer and Employee Needs

SLCC An Important Part of Utah’s Economic Development Efforts

SLCC Top Jobs Needed

Source: ManPower Group US Study Global Talent Shortage Survey 2013

SLCC Programs To Be Offered at WestpointeExisting Under Development

Aviation – Professional Pilot Industrial Robotics TechnicianCommercial Driver License* Mechatronics TechnicianComposites Technician* MetrologyDiesel Systems TechnicianElectronics AssemblerMachinist Technician*Manufacturing Engineering TechnologyNon-Destructive Testing TechnicianPlastics - Injected Moldings TechnicianSolar TechnicianWelding Fabrication and Inspection*

*Growth Potential

SLCC Westpointe Center Economic Impact

Job areaMedian

wage2014

openingsEconomic impact (low estimate)

Economic impact (high estimate)

Aeronautics/aviation 23.27 272  $11,135,478 $13,164,536

Composites/plastics 14.58 1004  $24,659,000 $30,437,681

Diesel Technician 21.39 286  $10,495,921 $12,725,955

Electronics 21.74 974  $36,495,453 $44,045,265

Welding 18.15 1623  $49,222,394 $61,266,322

Drivers 19.02 1315  $43,765,132 $52,026,428

Testing 17.29 305  $8,800,660 $10,971,774

The data comes from EMSI (Economic Modelling Specialists, Intl.)  The job areas in all but the last case include multiple jobs from the EMSI database.   The regional area for calculating openings is all of the counties in N. Utah. Wages (25th percentile and median) are averages from all the component jobs in that area.

SLCC Salt Lake County Regions

SLCC Westpointe Funding Sources

• Utah State Legislature, 2015 Session

$3 million pre construction and design

• Salt Lake Community College $4.5 million land acquisition

• Industry Partners – Hexcel $250,000

SLCC 2015 Programming Schedule

SLCC Industry and Partner Support

SLCC Industry and Partner Support

Salt Lake Community College