2023 Distinguished Alumni Award

As the chief academic officer for Salt Lake Community College, Clifton Gregory Sanders PhD’90 provides executive leadership, strategic planning and budget oversight for Academic Affairs programs, services and personnel. Clifton also serves as a member of the college’s President’s Executive Cabinet. Previously, he was the school’s Dean of Science Mathematics and Engineering. Clifton is also a current mentor of graduate minority students at the U. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the U’s Department of Chemistry in 2017, received the Arts and Letters Distinguished Service Award by the Utah Academy of Sciences in 2011, and Salt Lake City Weekly’s Best Straight-Up Jazz Band award with The G Brown Quintet in 2004.