NSF grant will support SLCC students, in particular minorities and women, who are committed to completing STEM-related degrees.

Salt Lake City, Utah (PRWEB) February 25, 2015

Salt Lake Community College was recently awarded a $604,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program.

The Foundation’s program supports scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating a financial need, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate or bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline. The outcome is expected to be a doubling of the number of graduates in SLCC’s STEM programs over the course of the five-year project.

Salt Lake Community College is an accredited, student-focused, urban college meeting the diverse needs of the Salt Lake community. SLCC is also the largest supplier of transfer students to Utah’s four-year institutions and a perennial Top 10 college nationally for total associate degrees awarded.