I just graduated with my associates degree! SLCC w...

I just graduated with my associates degree! SLCC was the place for me. Truly everything about it as an education experience was phenomenal. The class sizes were small, allowing me to get to know my professors and ask questions. The knowledge I received seemed to be just at the level I would expect from a university. Every professor I had seemed genuinely invested in my learning and success.

SLCC also has great resources, the DRC was great, free tutors helped me integrate the info, the academic advisers were generally (more on this in a bit) great, the food pantry for food insecure individuals is great, the financial aid office was helpful, the transfer events, you name it. It all was great. They offer many courses at many different locations. And ALL OF this was for a very reasonable price (look into SLCC promise too for help paying for school).

2 small but important critiques. First, the free bus UTA pass they offer for students (and faculty) is awesome! However, as a student who had to take classes at three different campuses having to get a bus between them could take up to 1 hour!! they used to have inter-campus shuttles which would get you from the main campuses in about 30 minutes. I Would like to ask for their return and make them even quicker! Also, with many locations (which is great) I think it's important to look further into offering more courses at each one (for example most of my science courses as pre-health were limited to Taylorsville or Jordan)

Second, the staff where all awesome! With that said, I think some improvement could be made in general academic advising. They were always kind and thoughtful when I went to them. But often I felt confused after leaving or like my question was kind of half answered. I know they're general advisers so it's a lot to expect to have them know so many different things but I think some more training for them on how to help students would be great.

All in all SLCC is a great institution to get into secondary education or boost your career options! I would go there again in a heartbeat! Thank you for the quality education I received!