Utah’s top provider of workforce training graduated 3,603 students on Thursday as Salt Lake Community College held its 2018 commencement ceremonies in West Valley City.
Graduating students, faculty, friends and family members assembled in the Maverik Center heard from New England Patriots wide receiver and award-winning children’s book author Malcolm J. Mitchell, who delivered the event’s keynote speech.
Mitchell, who attended the University of Georgia before being drafted by the Patriots in 2016, is said to have struggled with reading when he first began college. Since the 2016 release of his first book, “The Magician’s Hat,” Mitchell has emerged as an advocate for literacy.