NEUMONT'S PRESIDENT

NEUMONT'S PRESIDENT

From his office on the fourth floor of the historic Tribune Building on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City, Neumont University President Shaun McAlmont, can see and hear progress. 

Next door to the computer science-focused university, the $110 million, 2,500-seat George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater is under construction – set to open in 2016, with an additional $12.8 million facelift for Regent Street and Orpheum Avenue creating a new arts district, right in the institution’s back yard.

“We’re smack in the middle of progress,” McAlmont muses, and you get the feeling he’s talking about more than the adjacent construction.

Although McAlmont is relatively new to his post at Neumont, it hasn’t taken him long to settle in. He brings a unique skill-set to the university, where students earn bachelor’s degrees in three years. His résumé includes more than 20 years of experience in the field of education and training, including roles at Stanford University and Brigham Young University. He was most recently the CEO of Lincoln Educational Services—a technical education institution with campuses in 15 states.

McAlmont’s enthusiasm for his new position is hard to miss, especially when he speaks about the connection he feels to Neumont students. Originally from Canada, McAlmont says he knows what it’s like to be different – something a lot of Neumont students can relate to. He attended Brigham Young University on a track scholarship in the late 1980s – arriving at the predominantly LDS campus as one of the school’s few minority students and a Catholic. To say he was not a typical student seems almost laughable.