The Education Foundation’s mission is to provide physical and financial support to Salina Area Technical College. Funds raised go directly to student scholarships, special projects, and capital campaigns outside of Salina Tech’s reach. Your contributions stay right here in the community. Building Futures, Changing Lives. Salina Tech!
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Your gifts to the Foundation make a difference in the lives of our students. Students select Salina Tech to receive training for jobs that are most in demand by the community in which we live and work. Over 95% of our students have secured job placement within 6 months of graduation and we have the best completion rate of all higher education institutions in the state of Kansas.
When you invest in the Salina Tech Foundation, you’re investing in a brighter future for our students and our community.
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Meet The Director
Brenda Gutierrez - Executive Director of Foundation
Brenda received both her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Fine Arts from K-State Manhattan. With experience in non-profit and for-profit settings, she draws on marketing, public relations, fundraising and development, and collaboration skills at Salina Tech. The goals at Salina Area Technical College are to grow the Foundation’s financial resources to support more scholarships, build endowments for the future and expand the college’s infrastructure.
Having lived in rural Saline County for over 30 years, Brenda and her husband Michael are active volunteers and board members for local and state community and service organizations. Valuing family and farming, she spends weekends helping on the family farm near Downs, Kansas.
brenda.gutierrez@salinatech.edu
785-309-3121
Foundation News
Salina Tech awarded $1.8 M grant, seeking matching funds for new building
Like most industries, manufacturing seems to change and adapt toward efficiency as technology evolves. A new program at Salina Area Technical College will prepare students for setting up and [...]
New Tax Credit Program benefits Kansas Taxpayers
New Tax Credit Program benefits Kansas Taxpayers The Kansas Department of Revenue & Kansas Legislature has established the Community College & Technical College Contribution Tax Credit Program. The program [...]
Salina Tech hires Gutierrez as new foundation director
Salina Area Technical College announced this morning that Brenda Gutierrez has been named executive director of the college’s foundation, succeeding Larry Pankratz, who retired at the end of 2021. “We [...]