The new president of Utah’s SLCC is ‘a first-generation community college student himself’

Gregory Peterson has worked at community colleges, started new programs at several, studied how they operate best and even wrote his dissertation about them.But what might guide him the most as he now takes the helm as the new leader of Salt Lake Community College is that he was once a student at one. Peterson’s experience with higher education started when he was 18 years old and enrolled at Clackamas Community College in Oregon in 1994.“He is a first-generation community college st