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The making of a

University Transition: July 1, 2008

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Profiles

UVSC steps into new shoes

10 Man of Vision

William A. Sederburg, president of Utah Valley State College, and his vision for the school.

Cover Story

14 Father of a Dream

Wilson Sorensen

UVSC came to be after years of effort, legislation and the feverish energy of one Wilson Sorensen.

Big Switch In the nearly 70 years since the school’s founding, it has functioned as a vocational school, a trade institute, a technical college, a community college and, most recently, a state college. On July 1, the school will become Utah Valley University, a metamorphosis that will likely be its last.

25 People with Answers

Get to know a few people that know more than a little about UVSC campus.

Academics 38 Department Change

To accommodate the university concept, the school is splitting majors.

40 Degree List

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UVSC offerings

41 Masters Program

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Engagement “I love UVSC,” said Sarah Lloyd, principal of Independence High School in Provo. “I have always loved UVSC because it can be so accommodating to all walks of life. .... I know if there’s anywhere where my kids can succeed, it’s there.”

The Future “We’re starting to see a lot more focus around departmental life,” UVSC President William A. Sederburg said. “We want to create a university experience. That’ll be an interesting challenge.”

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Up to 15,000 people are expected to attend Utah Valley State College’s Grand Celebration concert featuring country stars Joe Nichols, Collin Raye and Josh Gracin, with local comedian Johnny B on June 30.

New Library After 24 months of construction and three trips to the Utah State Legislature to secure more than $46 million in funding, the library is cracking it’s doors.

Explore the inside of the Digital Media Center on our photo tour.

Check out a time-lapse video of the construction at www.heraldextra. com/uvu.

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This year it’s a master’s in education, but the school is pursuing two more degrees.

42 Trading in Degrees

The school is printing new diplomas for graduates of yesteryear.

42 Applying to School

Learn how to get into the university.

Administration 13 Close Community

Collaborative efforts in the community are making waves.

26 Gaining Accreditation

State college changes its stripes to fit the times.

28 Questions Anyone?

Brush up on the details of the changeover.

30 Tuition Changes

Yes, students can still afford to attend Utah Valley University.

On the Cover: A photo of UVSC during construction from spring 2003 compared to the school’s current state.

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Big Switch From state college to university

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Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. jokes with observers who attended a bill signing at UVSC on March 21, 2006.

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To keep pace with needs of the community, UVSC changes to UVU.

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Natalie Hollingshead Herald Correspondent

tah Valley State College is no stranger to change. In the nearly 70 years since the school’s founding, it has functioned as a vocational school, a trade institute, a technical college, a community college and, most recently, a state college. On July 1, the school will officially become Utah Valley University, a metamorphosis that will likely be its last.

“UVSC has reinvented itself many times,” said Val Hale, vice president of institutional advancement. “It’s been constantly evolving, really, since the institution began. We’ve broken new ground every 10 or 15 years.”

The school got its start in Provo in 1941, as World War II loomed in the future and the demand for skilled craftsmen was high. After the war, the oncetemporary school became a permanent state institution. Skyrocketing enrollment forced the school to grow quickly, and after several locations and name changes, it became the Utah Technical College in 1967.

The school expanded its educational offerings through the next 20 years and became Utah Valley Community College in 1987. Six years later, in 1993, the name was changed again to Utah Valley State College and the school added bachelor’s degrees to its offerings.

Some people thought that would be the end of the road for UVSC, but many state legislators, regents, board members and administrators knew better, Hale said.

“For people who used to go here, it seemed like a pretty big leap, but I think there were some people, like Senator [John] Valentine, who had a dream that it was going to happen someday,” Hale said. “And 10, 12 years ago, people started thinking that it might happen.”

Although many people could fathom a future need for another university in Utah County, most thought the change was still decades down the road. Even when President William A. Sederburg took the post as president in 2003, many — the president included — thought the change was still a while out.

“I don’t think anybody had any clear idea of exactly when it would occur,” said Sederburg, who came to UVSC from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. “The first time I met with [former] Commissioner of Higher Education Rich Kendell, he thought it would be 10 years out. Next time, he said it was seven years out, and every year it just kept getting shorter and shorter.”

Sederburg came to UVSC to enact change. So after familiarizing himself with the school and its

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“UVSC has reinvented itself many times. It’s been constantly evolving, really, since the institution began.

We’ve broken new ground every 10 or 15 years.”

— Val Hale vice president of institutional advancement

surroundings, the president hired a consultant from Michigan to survey lawmakers and other important state officials and record their thoughts about UVSC and its future. The first finding was that “nobody had any intense objections to UVSC becoming a university.”

“There wasn’t anybody that said, ‘Over my dead body,’ ” Sederburg said.

Second, the consultant found that no one had a real plan for UVSC in his or her mind.

“No one could articulate what the school was about at a state level,” Sederburg said. “The consultant said, ‘The state doesn’t have a plan, so why don’t you come up with one?’ ” Sederburg took the expert at his word and spent the next year developing a strategic plan and vision for the state college. The pinnacle of that plan was the change from college to university.

What’s in a name?

In Utah, the primary difference between a college and a university is the ability to offer master’s degrees. UVSC offered technical, associate and bachelor’s degrees, but master’s degree programs were out of the school’s reach as long as it functioned as a college, said Janette Hales Beckman, chairman of the UVSC Board of Trustees. In an area as large as Utah County, a state university — with accompanying master’s degree programs — was sorely needed.

“We had been very much aware of the need for a university,” said Beckman. “Most of our board

members have experience in education, and they were aware that for the size of our community the need to have a university was great, probably way past due.”

Although Brigham Young University offers master’s and doctorate degree programs, the institution is privately owned and has a large international student population. It was never set up to specifically serve the needs of Utah Valley, but rather members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the world, Beckman said.

“Their mission is much broader than Utah County, and yet, that is our mission specifically,” Hale said.

Even with BYU serving some local students, a regional state university was still needed in the county, which is home to the second-largest metropolitan area in the state.

Administrators at UVSC project enrollment to reach 32,000 students by 2018 — and that’s assuming UVSC continues to attract the same proportion of local high school students it does now, with no inward or outward migration, said Elizabeth Hitch, vice president of academic affairs.

“This area has grown and the number of students wanting access to education has grown,” Hitch said.

As the only state university in the county, UVSC will need a wide variety of programs to meet the needs of those students, she said, included master’s programs.

The name change was also needed as a more accurate reflection of the quality of a UVSC education — an important distinction at county, state, national and even international levels.

“A UVSC education is already state-of-the-art, and why not reflect that in the name?” Sederburg said.

“It’s paradoxical. On one hand, it’s not very important, but on the other hand, it might as well have the more current status. It will certainly improve the value of students’ diplomas and recognition to the outside world.

“It doesn’t matter to my relatives if I am president of a college or a university, but it does matter to students if they’re going to a college or a university.”

The master plan After the president and his team set university status as their goal, they outlined the school’s strengths and weaknesses on a white board in Sederburg’s conference room. The plan also listed challenges that would have to be met before things could go toward university status. One of the primary obstacles was overcoming the current perception of UVSC.

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People are worried about the school abandoning its trades or technical programs, but the school is “not abandoning that mission one bit,” she said.

“We have two associate degrees that have been approved this year alone,” Hitch said. “UVSC has 57 bachelor’s degrees, and that includes 26 new in the last four years. We have 39 associate degrees, 96 emphases, six diplomas and 15 one-year certificates.

That is a lot of access to education, when you think about it.”

Political party

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Utah Higher Education Commissioner Richard Kendell [right] and President William H. Sederburg explain plans to make UVSC into a university to an appropriations committee at the State Capitol on Jan. 22, 2007.

“The reputation of a school usually lags about 10 years behind the current status of the school,” he said. “My big challenge at the beginning was just to bring the regents and others on campus and let them know what the current status was. People were surprised, especially with the quality of the faculty.”

Visits to the school warmed up many regents and lawmakers to the idea, but there were a few officials who were slow to come around, Sederburg said.

In September 2005, after working to get all the key players on board, Sederburg and Commissioner Kendell collaborated for two months on a rationale document for the school.

The eight-point report outlined the steps UVSC would have to take before reaching university status: work collaboratively with the Board of Regents in evaluating the move toward university status; undergo a site evaluation by a panel of three consultants; benchmark itself against peer institutions; develop a case statement; address several financerelated issues, including reducing faculty teaching load, increasing the number of full-time faculty and adding student advisors; increase the number of degree programs; begin the development of graduate programs and improve the quality of library services

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and facilities. “You can always change the name of a school, but Rich [Kendell] was the architect of a lot of this, and he wanted it to be an authentic university.

He would use that word, ‘authentic,’ and it was more significant to him than it was to me because I knew we would be. He said, ‘Let’s do it right and let’s not play a lot of political games,’ ” Sederburg said.

Part of becoming an “authentic” university meant developing a clear vision about the type of university UVSC would become.

Following designations by the Board of Regents, the institution would become a Type II university — meaning the school would be able to offer master’s degrees but not doctorate degrees. It wouldn’t be a research university like the University of Utah, rather a regional teaching university.

“Like Weber State before them, UVU is going to be a really comprehensive institution,” said David Buhler, interim commissioner of higher education. “It will function as a community college still, with technical, associate, bachelor’s as well as some master’s degrees all under one roof, all under one administration. For taxpayers, it’s a bonus.”

Among community members, there is still some confusion as to what UVSC will become, Hitch said.

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While Sederburg didn’t want to pay political games, he and his team still had to honor the political process — a procedure with which he became acquainted after serving as a Michigan State Senator.

“It is a political decision, ultimately,” Beckham said.

“Sederburg had to make sure the Board of Education and Board of Regents and state government officials were all supportive. I think that came about because of the preparation of really good, credible statistics and information.”

In order for UVSC to meet all of the requirements in the rationale document and change to a university, the school needed $48 million for a university-quality library and $10 million to upgrade academic programs and make the change to university status.

Because state funding has to be approved by the Legislature, the Board of Regents assumed it would take the school four or five years to build up the required funds, Buhler said.

However, in 2006, the state legislature allocated $48 million for the library. The following year, legislators approved $8 million towards the name change and this year, $2 million more was added.

“We were happily surprised that it moved as quickly as it did and that the resources were available,” Buhler said. “To be the kind of institution that we all wanted it to be, they needed that funding. The greatest danger would have been if the legislature had taken the stance of, ‘Well, we’ll just change the name and not put the money into it.’ ” Sederburg says the Legislature got on board because of the credibility and hard work of Utah State Senate President John Valentine, who has been a longtime supporter of UVSC’s change to UVU. “The funding was more easily achieved than I thought it would be, and a lot of that was Sen. Valentine,” Sederburg said. “He really provided the muscle and a lot of the vision.”

Sen. Valentine sponsored the bills to give UVSC additional funding for the change. The bill that he introduced to change the school’s name to Utah Valley University passed the House and the Senate with unanimous votes.

“It’s amazing when you think that this was all accomplished without a dissenting vote in the Legislature, without a dissenting vote among the regents,” said Hale. “There were really very few people in the state who objected to this. That would’ve been viewed as practically impossible five years ago.”

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UVSC President William A. Sederburg gears up for the school’s history-making moment.

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Natalie Hollingshead Herald Correspondent

tah Valley State College President William A. Sederburg is into reading. It’s a good thing, considering the man makes a living in higher education.

Right now, Sederburg is working his way through the historical non-fiction novel, “The Professor and a Madman.” The book chronicles the making of The Oxford English Dictionary, mixed in with a little murder, insanity and intrigue.

But more fascinating to Sederburg than the linguistic developments is the fact that author Simon Winchester has made a novel out of a small moment in history.

The interest is fitting, Sederburg admits, considering the president is at the helm of his institution’s historymaking moment.

On July 1, Utah Valley State College will become Utah Valley University. The change from college to university is the realization of a long-anticipated goal for the school. But it wasn’t a dream Sederburg brought with him when he became the school’s fifth president in 2003.

“There was quite a bit of discussion in the interview stage with the regents and everybody else who said that university status was in the future, it was just a timing issue,” Sederburg said. “I didn’t think it would happen as rapidly as it did. I think there was a window of opportunity and we grabbed it.”

Sederburg came to UVSC from Big Rapids, Mich., where the 60-year-old served as president of Ferris State University for nine years.

Born in Nebraska and raised in Minnesota, Sederburg began his academic journey with a bachelor’s degree in education and political science from Mankato State University in Minnesota. After that, he completed his master’s and doctorate degrees in political science at Michigan State University.

Even though Sederburg was born in Minnesota, he made Michigan his home. From 1978 to 1991, he served in the Michigan State Senate. Education issues were some of Sederburg’s top priorities. He sat on various Senate educational boards and was chair of the Midwest Higher Education Commission.

After leaving politics, Sederburg taught and lectured at colleges throughout Michigan. He became the 16th president of Ferris State University in 1995.

When Sederburg left Michigan for his current position at UVSC, it quickly became clear that his political background would come in handy for the eventual transition to UVSC. “I don’t think there could’ve been a better man for the position at this particular time,” said Janette Hales Beckham, chairman of the UVSC Board of Trustees. “I

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UVSC President William A. Sederburg addresses the students and faculty of the school during the “Sandwiches with Sederburg” event on April 8. think he was crucial in the sense that he sees the big picture and he is a very capable leader. He understands education totally, and he doesn’t have a personal agenda.

His agenda is to help people have access to education.”

The desire to help educate people is a passion that has driven Sederburg his entire life. It’s the reason he entered the field of education and the impetus that prompted him to leave his “ideal job” at Ferris State to come to UVSC. Sederburg brought his wife, Joyce, with him. (The couple have two adult children).

In Michigan, Sederburg said he was becoming the “historian.” He was the one who remembered things as they used to be.

“I said to myself, ‘I want to be part of the future, not part of the past,’ ” Sederburg said.

His wish has certainly come true at UVSC. From his first days on the job, Sederburg was encouraged to

move UVSC towards the goal of university status.

“I remember at my inauguration, Gov. [Olene] Walker referred to us as Utah Valley State University,” Sederburg said.

Because Sederburg came to UVSC to enact change, he got to work researching and forming committees to look into university status. His background in politics again served him well.

“He had a real plan for the transition and didn’t just jump into this,” said David Buhler, interim commissioner of higher education in Utah.

Sederburg made the decision early on to make sure the transition was done right. He didn’t want the change to be a political power play but an agreement among decision-makers statewide.

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Utah Valley State College President William A. Sederburg on campus on May 6.

“The thing President Sederburg was able to do was really establish a consensus among the key players in the state,” said Val Hale, vice president of institutional advancement at UVSC. “It’s amazing when you think that this was all accomplished without a dissenting vote among the regents. There were really very few people in the state who objected to this. That would’ve been viewed as practically impossible five years ago.”

Although Sederburg was eager to move forward with his vision for the university, he wasn’t interested in what he calls “political games.” He prefers to be honest and open with people and is willing to put in time for what needs to be done, said Vincent Fordiani, special assistant to the president.

Ten and 12-hour days are common on Sederburg’s schedule, as the president often attends community events on the evenings and weekends. In the beginning, those conversations were about what UVSC could become. Now, they center on what kind of school UVU is going to be.

“He enjoys being part of the community,” Fordiani said. “He is willing to meet with people, go to their houses, to share his vision with the community, because he sees UVSC as this valley’s school.”

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Sederburg’s willingness to interact with those in the community may surprise some, but not his associates, who describe the president as a visionary leader. He excels at moving people towards a shared goal, they say, without being heavy-handed.

“He is a visionary leader as far as he puts a vision out there and sees if that vision will catch on in the campus community,” Fordiani said. “Running a school organization is very different than running a business.

He’s not a top-down kind of executive. He is very natural and friendly with everyone.”

Sederburg is known for his sense of humor. After his first year as president of UVSC, Sederburg penned an editorial for the Daily Herald where he discussed one of the more curious matters on his mind: the fact that he and his wife had yet to eat a meal that included Jell-O. “Even when invited to private homes for dinner, the Jell-O is kept for more select dinners,” Sederburg wrote. “Joyce and I have been served a lot of good food at a number of people’s homes, but never Jell-O. In spite of the tendency for people to bring out the good china when entertaining a college president, the Jell-O remained in the refrigerator.”

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Sederburg manages to be funny — a trait his colleagues at UVSC can attest to. “He has a great sense of humor,” Fordiani said. “He infuses humor in others and it makes him great to work with. I suppose it is part of the way that he persuades people, but it’s not a strategy. It’s just who he is.”

Sederburg is also not the type who is content with the status quo.

With the change from UVSC to UVU all but done, Sederburg already has moved on to the university’s next goal: to become a community-engaged university.

“Our goal is to create communities of engaged leaders who are connected in meaningful ways to the world we live in,” Sederburg said.

Many across campus have already caught the president’s vision for the university, just one example of his leadership skills at work, Fordiani said.

“He put this vision together and people have picked up on it because it fits who we are, it fits who our students are, and it’s what we need in this valley,” Fordiani said. “He has been a big part of making this happen — even though he wouldn’t admit that.”

Maybe he’ll believe it when the history books are written.

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UVSC builds strong relationships with surrounding business and organizations.

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boards in the community. In this case, he’s invested because IHC hires several dozen graduates from UVSC every year, particularly nurses.

“We have hundreds of wonderful people who work at Intermountain Health who are graduates of UVSC,” he said. “We want to retain the best and the brightest graduates right here in Utah Valley,” he said. “If they don’t have opportunities as far as employment is concerned to stay, we’ll lose them.”

UVS, UTTI, UTC, UVCC, UVSC, UVU — In July, the acronym will have changed six times, but Utah Valley State College’s mission remains the same: to serve the community and to foster its students’ success.

“I have always loved UVSC,” said Sarah Lloyd, principal of Independence High School, an alternative high school in Provo, “because it can be so accommodating to all walks of life. I have so much confidence in sending my students there because I know that they have things in place to support my stuYou dents. I know if there’s anywhere where can’t hang my kids can succeed, it’s there.”

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Work ethic, commitment, quality

Utah County is one of two counties experiencing the greatest amount of growth in Utah, both of which are growing faster than the national rate. In response, UVSC is also growing faster than onto sacred the national rate. Clark cited discuscows. They’re willsions that he’d had with President Part of the school’s success lies in Sederburg, saying that he believes ing to do what the UVSC’s quick response to the comwill someday be one of the community needs and UVU munity’s needs as they continue to largest universities in the state, engrow and change. wants and they’re will- rolling 30,000 to 40,000 students.

To do so, UVSC President Wil“I see nothing but promise in ing to pay the price to liam Sederburg is pushing for acathe future,” Clark said. He’s not demic expansion. Sederburg wants do so. alone in describing UVSC’s relationto be sure that UVSC is a first-stop, ship with the community as being — Linda Walton most-preferred destination for civic inclusive and collaborative. president of The Walton and commercial groups looking for serLinda P. Walton, president of the Group vices and for fresh and innovative ideas.

Walton Group, a public relations and ad“It seems that he cares what the community vertising firm based in Provo, agrees. “I’ve been thinks about the university’s efforts,” said David Clark, very pro-UVwhatever, whatever the name was in any CEO of Intermountain Healthcare and the chair of version,” she said.

UVSC’s Community Relations Council.

For the most part, it’s because she’s been serving As the chairman of the Community Relations ComUVSC students since Kerry Romesburg was presimittee, Clark heads a group of more than 40 equally dent of Utah Valley Community College. Back then, connected Utah Valley government and business Walton was the college’s public relations director. leaders who meet every other month to discuss issues Her great-uncle worked as an auto mechanics teachcentral to UVSC’s mission. er, and her husband studied electrical engineering at Val Hale, vice president of institutional advancethe school. She’s served on the community relations, ment, said he looks forward to the meetings. “Our ethics and marketing committees. goal is to get input and feedback from them,” he said.

This fall, Walton is teaching in the communications And not for just the small or inconsequential matters department. At the moment, she’s the chaplain of the that cross the president’s desk.

Interfaith Student Association.

UVSC ran its new mission statement and the new “Sometimes the academic world gets out of touch. community-engagement model past the council.

UVSC seems to be more reality-based than some oth“They’re advisory,” Hale said. “So far they’ve been er programs that I’ve seen,” she said, a quality that’s strongly in our camp. They did a great job of lobbying easy appreciate. for us and advocating for us in the community and in “You need to have an organization that’s willing to the Legislature.” morph like UVSC does,” she said. “You can’t hang on Hale said Utah Valley’s community leaders are to sacred cows. They’re willing to do what the comknee-deep in key decisions, and they’re excited to be munity needs and wants, and they’re willing to pay so. “With the quality of people that we have in the comthe price to do so.” munity, we’d be foolish not to listen to their advice and counsel,” Hale said. “We’ve called on them in several instances, and they’ve come through with shining colors in their ability to get behind things.”

UVSC’s ability to morph, as Walton called it, comes That list of civic and commercial leaders includes directly from being so attenuated to the community’s heads of companies and several school board repreneeds, she said. First, Uncle Sam asked for riveters sentatives. As CEO, Clark sits on five or six advisory to make airplanes, then Kennecott Utah Copper and

Facing the challenge

Changing to stay relevant

Geneva Steel enlisted the school’s help to train people to fill positions.

Today, Provo-based computer firm Novell and cosmetic manufacturer Nu Skin are looking for high-tech business people.

“The curriculum changes to meet the needs of local business, not only in the valley, but in the state, throughout the county and the world,” Walton said.

For those who express reservations about UVSC’s change to UVU, Walton said: “I think people are afraid of change, but this school has changed a lot.

It’s important to have UVU. It’s a matter of changing with the times so that you’re relevant.”

State colleges and community colleges have been on a mad dash to stay relevant all along, she said. It makes for an edgier, more-flexible academic environment. Schools like UVSC simply have to stay in touch with reality.

“If there wasn’t a community, there wouldn’t be an institution,” Walton said. “What’s taught there is directly related to what the community needs, so it changes.”

Greg Soter, president of Soter Associates, a Utah County-based executive advertising firm, teaches classes in advertising, public relations and marketing at both Brigham Young University and UVSC. He moonlights as a flight instructor on evenings and weekends and is a former director of the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce.

“I have to commend Bill Sederburg,” Soter said.

“He’s a huge asset. UVSC is extremely fortunate to have him. The guy is bright, he’s innovative, he’s pleasant, he’s friendly. He is very engaged with the people of the community, and he brings an effective combination of professional and personality skills that allow him get a lot of very productive things done.

He’s a gem.”

As is UVSC’s avionics department, he said.

Utah has seen a sharp rise in the demand for career pilots. In response, UVSC has added aircraft and equipment that’s more appropriate for the current demand. In fact, Soter said his students learn to fly aircraft that have more-sophisticated equipment than that of the 747s, 737s or MD80s flown commercially.

In his capacity as a member of UVSC’s advisory committee to the computing and engineering school, Soter says that he remembers being deeply impressed as he walked with the dean through the college.

The dean carefully pointed out the rooms in which different specialties were taught and conducted an active discussion on the fact that demand for those particular subjects were decreasing.

“Space is a huge premium,” Soter said. “For office and teaching. The dean was telling the advisory committee, ‘If we change the space, if there’s no longer the demand for the trade to teach the topic, what subjects should we be dedicating this space to?’

“That’s a wonderful example of the school’s desire to respond to the needs of the community,” he added.

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Wilson Sorensen, the first president of UVSC, on May 12 at the Legacy Retirement Home in South Jordan.

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Fledgling school earns its wings under the tutelage of a one-time shop teacher

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he world was embroiled in war in February 1945. Saturation bombing turned the German city of Dresden into an inferno, softening Nazi resistance as the Allies

pushed toward the heart of Hitler’s crumbling empire.

Fears of heavy casualties in an invasion on Japan grew when nearly 7,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in the assault on Iwo Jima. The Manhattan Project was in full swing in New Mexico, as scientists rocketed toward Trinity and the first atomic bomb.

In Utah Valley, government-sponsored classes at Provo High School trained women to build warplanes.

These local versions of Rosie the Riveter stepped into an immensely productive industrial stream that poured out war matériel headed overseas. The nation’s vocational schools churned out skilled blue-collar laborers who kept the assembly lines rolling.

At the capitol in Salt Lake City one day that February, Wilson Sorensen edged forward in his gallery seat as one of his key supporters spoke to the state Legislature. He watched closely as balding, bespectacled politicians determined the fate of a small vocational school, which 48 years later would become Utah Valley State College and would rival the size of BYU, the University of Utah and Utah State University.

Powerful enemies stood in the way of that future: legislators who didn’t want to spend state funds to educate workers they felt should be trained by private industry. Sorensen knew the school — known then as Central Utah Vocational School — would close after the war, when federal money dried up, if the state didn’t accept it as one of its own.

His vision for a Utah version of the nation’s major trade colleges hung in the balance.

Sorensen battled dejection as he lobbied during the 60-day legislative session, trying to convince his hardheaded opponents that the school served the needs of many of the state’s residents. A bill introduced in 1943 to provide state funds had failed. Now, two years later, Sorensen held his breath as State Sen. Elisha Warner of Payson stood up in support of Senate Bill 77.

Warner told his fellow legislators that the argument over CUVS reminded him of a large family sitting at dinner with an orphaned child waiting nearby for leftover scraps. “It’s time for you to realize the orphan is an important contributor and should be made a member of the state family,” Warner said.

The lawmakers did accept the school into the state family, but scraps were exactly what they gave. They appropriated $25,000 for each of the first two postwar years to a school with an annual budget of $200,000.

Nevertheless, with the vote of acceptance Sorensen had his foot in the door. As time went on, his genius for crisis management and his vision steered a nascent UVSC through a number of potentially fatal predicaments and finally transformed an underappreciated stretch of Orem corn fields, fruit orchards and gravel

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Wilson Sorensen shines his shoes near a wall of awards in his Provo home before departing to an awards banquet in his honor at UVSC on Sept. 9, 2002. pits into an oasis of education for tens of thousands of Utah County students.

“The big step was to get the school established as a state school,” said Sorensen, now 92. “Once we were recognized as a member of the family, I figured we could fight our battles for funding like the other schools.”

Unwilling to concede defeat Provo businessman Bill Anderson said, “Wilson Sorensen is living proof of the scripture that ‘out of small things proceedeth that which is great.’ He is the true father of Utah Valley State College.”

“One must wonder how one man could do so much to help so many in one lifetime,” said Anderson. “None will ever exceed the pioneering efforts of he who planted the first seed and patiently plodded forward awaiting the day when his dreams could be realized.”

High schools in the Utah and Heber valleys began in

1938 to host a scattered group of 12 classes for a state vocational program. Those classes were the beginnings of a new school and, in 1941, a new institution was born, complete with its name and its first campus in Provo at 1100 S. University Ave. Its buildings were barracks on the Utah County Fairgrounds, leftovers from the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal project.

Money came from Congress, which had passed the National Defense Education Act to provide money for training skilled industrial workers.

Uncle Sam had already cut funding to the program and as Sorensen remembers it, the CCC workers stationed in Provo had joined up at the beginning of the war. In their absence, the former barracks were converted into classrooms constructed to educate a very different kind of army. This army was a dynamic group of men and women who were training in technical skills crucial to the war effort. “We had classes

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A bust of Wilson Sorensen sits on a shelf outside of his door at the Legacy Retirement Home in South Jordan. Sorensen was the first president of UVSC. in the old barracks building going 24 hours a day,” Sorensen said. “The nation was so short of help, industries didn’t have enough people to manufacture the goods and machines for the war effort. Everyone had been trained as office workers and white collar jobs.

No one had been trained in trade or technical fields.”

And so Sorensen and his staff undertook the mandate to train workers for the avionic assembly line, putting rivets in airplanes. They trained welders, machinists and students who could make and repair parachutes.

If the war was the school’s raison d’etre, it also created imposing problems for a 25-year-old purchasing agent fresh out of BYU. Businesses that produced tanks, aircraft and small arms for war had A-1 priority to purchase scarce materials. Sorensen’s fledgling vocational school was well down the totem pole, with a purchasing priority rating of A-10. It wasn’t the lowest rating, but it was close, and not much different.

Other men would have bowed to the pressure, peers report, but not Sorensen. “I found Wilson to be a very, very persistent person,” says Orville Gunther, one of the school’s first three teachers and already on hand when Sorensen arrived in 1941. “He’s quite calm and collected. He doesn’t get overly excited, but he keeps coming back. I think that’s his great quality.”

Gunther watched Sorensen wrestle with the system to get instructors and students the materials they needed. Sorensen traveled the state. He frequented warehouses, especially at one Salt Lake company that allowed him to buy anything in stock on the theory

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that if the War Department hadn’t taken it yet, it must not need it. He developed a knack for finding equipment that didn’t have all the bells and whistles the military required but which fit perfectly the needs of the school. He patiently filled out forms others ignored, used gentlemanly persuasion and, above all, kept going back.

Ironically, Gunther found himself in Sorensen’s shoes in 1942 when Gunther’s father died. Gunther took on the family business, Gunther’s Comfort Air, but he, too, faced a low purchasing priority for the steel he needed. He tore a page from the Sorensen playbook on wartime acquisition.

“I copied Wilson’s techniques, studiously filing all the proper forms and using the proper persuasion,” Gunther says. “I learned the same things and was able to get steel.”

Saving the school By 1943, school officials began to prepare for the war’s end, which inevitably would mean the cessation of federal funding. They applied for state sponsorship, but the Legislature rejected the proposal. Sorensen went to Capitol Hill as the school’s lobbyist for the next legislative session, in 1945, and wedged that stubborn orphan foot in the door.

It was a be-careful-what-you-wish-for triumph, however. In the following year, he became president of the school he’d helped save, and it was in the middle of its worst budget crisis.

“We had to make a report at the monthly state

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board meetings and that was scary, me not having a lot of administrative training,” Sorensen says. “We had to account for every dime we spent or were going to spend.”

He visited other vocational schools to pick up administrative nuances, but never changed his habit of pitching in where help was needed.

When the fighting ended, the supplies he’d scrambled after for four years were classified as war surplus and became available for free or for pennies on the dollar. Sorensen drove a truck all over the state, snapping up machines and material, such as 22 diesel engines from armored tanks in Tooele, and hauling it all back to his campus of wooden barracks. He operated a forklift, too, moving big equipment around the campus.

“Surplus was probably one of the main factors we used to keep the school going for the next 10 years,” Sorensen says. “If we’d had to pay for new equipment, we never could have made it. At the beginning, we could just go to the depots and haul things away.

I’d leave somebody else in charge and go pick up equipment and supplies. Some people complained I was doing a laborer’s work with an administrator’s pay, but we were so short of help and everyone at the school was so good at what they did, I could leave and know everything would be all right.”

It very nearly wasn’t all right. Money ran out late in 1946, two months before the next legislative session. CUVS supporter Allen Bateman, the superintendent of education, managed to wrangle a $20,000 appropriation from the state board of examiners to bridge the gap.

It was just enough. Gov. Herbert B. Maw signed House Bill 127 on March 14, 1947, and the Central Utah Vocational School became a state institution under the management of the State Board of Education.

Sorensen’s band of master craftsmen would continue to teach auto mechanics, radio, sheet metal, carpentry and pattern making.

Sorensen’s next problem would be a recurring one — growth. In 1960, UVSC’s enrollment was 1,896. By 1970, it exploded to 5,161.

The institution grew steadily, even as it struggled for prestige. For years the school was known in the valley as Trade Tech, a name that, to many, carried a negative connotation, suggesting a place not worthy of the respect afforded the large liberal arts universities and “higher” education.

“The image of the school began to improve as people who attended it started to get good jobs,” Sorensen says. “At first, the high schools sent us kids who couldn’t make it in English or philosophy classes.

Shop class was a second-class citizen.

“The change began in World War II and continued as people realized a heavy equipment operator could make more than a school teacher.”

In fact, UVSC still has trouble keeping some vocational students enrolled long enough to graduate because local companies raid the campus for men and women with a year of instruction.

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Expanding the vision

technical occupation and go right to work.”

The face of Provo near LaVell UVSC still maintains that pledge Edwards Stadium could have been to welcome all comers — a pledge radically different. Sorensen and Sorensen says is at the core of the other school officials put together school’s success. a partnership in 1948 that included “Watching this unfold has been cash from Utah County, the city of absolutely remarkable,” Anderson Provo and four school districts and says. “Wilson worried that Marv Higpurchased 13 acres of land next to bee, who came from Snow College to BYU for $32,250. replace him, would kill the vocational The first building on the new camemphasis, but he just recognized the pus opened in 1954, located at 1200 need. Romesburg got on a train going N. University Ave. BYU now owns the right direction and just opened the the property. Students and faculty throttle.” showed up the day after Christmas The foundation was built by an un1953 to move equipment from the assuming man. A search for Wilson barracks to their prized new home.

Sorensen on the Internet is virtually Sorensen, certain that even more fruitless. He hasn’t sought publicity land was necessary, planned to and it hasn’t sought him in years. “He expand the campus north to 2300 is a quiet, energetic giant who was North and west to 200 West. Then always willing to pitch in and help,” the state extended University AvUVSC Marketing Anderson says. “He was the first enue beyond 1200 North and BYU chairman of Provo’s Freedom Festival Sorensen, pictured in a sugar beet field [left[, patiently filled out forms others built the football stadium and bought ignored, used gentlemanly persuasion and above all, kept going back. and every year they had to build a up land for a parking lot and intrastage inside the football stadium. It mural fields. took a month. Wilson was out there Before long, UVSC’s Provo much of the time in a carpenter’s uniUtah County natives attended UVSC. campus was bursting at the seams, breaching the form, organizing the project.”

Today, UVSC sprawls across 240 acres and total planned capacity of 2,000 students. In 1966, Sorensen Romesburg kept Sorensen involved at the school, enrollment has surpassed 23,000. Sorensen believes spearheaded efforts to purchase land in Orem along to the delight of many. “He is so detail-oriented it’s the land could hold 40,000 students, if the state allows Interstate 15. The state bought up farms, orchards, amazing,” says Derek Hall, the UVSC spokesman construction to continue. homes and even two gravel pits, paying a dollar for who often fields calls from Sorensen reminding him to “If I ever did anything for this school it was getting one of them. document the school’s history. this site,” Sorensen says. “It’s ideally located in the The original chunk included 116 acres, purchased It proves Gunther’s point, as does a story Anderson center of the county with easy access to the freeway.” for $346,000. The site grew to 185 acres by 1972, retells about Sorensen’s financial struggles as a BYU That statement was made recently, as he shuffled including a plot owned by Richard Gappmayer, a holdstudent. “He went down to BYU and told the presislowly into the Wilson Sorensen Student Center — “I out. Gappmayer finally relented, a decision he would dent, Franklin Harris, that he didn’t have tuition monwas opposed to that name, but I was outvoted.” be proud of were he still alive, says his son Merrill, ey,” Anderson says. “Harris said he’d give him a half Not everything worked out the way he wanted it. who calls Sorensen a visionary. scholarship if he could earn the other half. Wilson got He is mildly distressed over the school’s direction; his “Wilson’s a modern-day pioneer who managed a job making 25 cents an hour. It took him the whole vision included making UVSC one of the nation’s elite to buy land in Orem with a fantastic vision,” says year to save his half of the tuition, which was $30.” vocational schools, but the valley wanted a liberal arts Gappmayer, chairman of Intermountain Healthcare’s Gunther said that perseverance was evident college to supplement BYU, which capped its enrollboard of directors. “He provided a marvelous base for throughout Sorensen’s service at UVSC. “He persisted ment in the ’80s.

Marvin Higbee and Kerry Romesburg to create this in acquiring equipment from the federal government wonderful school. Some of that land was my father’s during and after the war,” Gunther says. “He perfruit farm. He for one would be really pleased to see sisted in acquiring funds from the federal government what’s sitting on that property, acquired under the and later from the state of Utah. Then he quite persisSeveral years ago, Sorensen bid a wistful farewell wisdom of Wilson Sorensen.” tently worked on the state Legislature for support of to the machine shop, because it was basic to all metalthe school’s growth.”

Gappmayer said Sorensen saw the needs of an working industries.

One other development continues to bother Soemerging valley and moved to meet them. “He said, Today, UVSC is changing yet again to step into rensen, however. Don’t blame him for traffic messes ‘We have to have space in a place where we can new shoes as a regional state university. at the intersection of University Parkway and Sandhill grow.’ He knew what the future would hold as far as “It will have a lot of social image with people in the Road, the main entry to the Orem campus. He envieducation here. He provided a place for students who community,” Sorensen said. “But the thing that built sioned that, too. “I suggested an overpass or an underwanted to go to BYU when there no longer was room this school was the trade and technical part. I’m afraid pass,” he says. “The state didn’t believe me.” at BYU.” that changing it to a university will frighten some stuThe state was wrong and Sorensen was right. AnyAnderson, the retired businessman who chairs dents from coming — students who are worried about one who makes it through that intersection becomes UVSC’s scholarship fund, is thrilled UVSC has suppletheir educational background. a witness to the best monument to Wilson Sorensen’s mented BYU. “In our day,” he says, “going to BYU “We’ve always had an open door policy,” he said. vision, a vibrant, increasingly influential and everwas automatic. It was like going to the 13th grade for “Anyone was welcome to come whether they had a growing UVSC. kids living in the valley. We just went up and regishigh school diploma or not. Even those that had graduThis story, written by Tad Walch, appeared in tered.” Last year, fewer than 3,000 of BYU’s daytime ate degrees would come because when they couldn’t the Daily Herald on Sept. 26, 2002, on page A8. students were from the valley while more than 15,000 find a job they would come to us to learn a trade or a

Bidding fond farewell

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The Party Transition marked by all-day fest

Party at the ballpark Collin Raye will be the second of three country music performers to play during the celebration.

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Clogging duo Sierra Dawes [right] and Jessica Lawrence [left] are two of UVUphoria the top finalists to compete in UVU’s Got Talent on June 30.

University celebration events include an open house at the Digital Media Center, a dance, fireworks carnival with blow-up toys and dinner. come out with his “superstar” style, he said. “[Nichols] is a cross between George Strait and Brad Paisley,” Hill said. “He’s othing says “congratulations got the traditional thing going on, but he on the advancement” like three is also modern in his own way. Plus, it country singers and some firedoesn’t hurt to have a good-looking head works. on your shoulders.”

Up to 15,000 people are expected to Before the concert starts, the day’s attend Utah Valley State College’s Grand UVUphoria events begin at 1 p.m. when Celebration concert featuring country the new library will open for people to stars Joe Nichols, Collin Raye and Josh tour and at 5 p.m. folks can head over Gracin and hosted by local comedian to the Family Fun Fest, a carnival that Johnny B on June 30. The concert starts will take place outside the ballpark. The at 7 p.m. at the Brent Brown Ballpark carnival will be filled with blow-up toys and is part of a series of events known and activities for kids, and guests can buy collectively as UVUphoria, which have dinner from local food vendors. There been planned to acknowledge UVSC’s adalso will be a small stage where various vancement from a state college to a UVSC students and alumni will university. Tickets cost between perform their talents.

I $5 and $10.

“It is all to help get “You can’t beat this love that ready for the concert,” show for the price,” this is a chance Hale said. “People can said Mark Hildebrand, hang out and enjoy the for families to come director of the McKay different things going Events Center and the out and spend time on.”

Brent Brown Ballpark.

The host will oftogether in a family “It would be silly not to ficially start the Grand come to this if you like atmosphere.

Celebration at about country music.”

7 p.m. and entertain — Ed Hill The all-day celebrathe crowd before and station manager tion doesn’t start or end between performances at K-Bull 93 FM with the big concert. Other from the six finalists of the events on June 30 include an UVU’s Got Talent competition open house at the new campus that took place on campus in March. library, a dance, a fireworks show and a The final winner of the competition will carnival with blow-up toys and dinner. be announced and paid $2,500 during the The school officially changes from concert, said Karen Tebbs, the program UVSC to Utah Valley University the next organizer. morning. UVSC’s Val Hale said the goal “We’ve got singers and musical groups of the day is to get people out to the camin our top six,” Tebbs said. “It was suppus to feel the significance of the moment posed to be a top five, but they were all so and to form bonds with the new school. good that we couldn’t decide.”

“We want the community to really The whole concert is scheduled to end see this as their institution,” said Hale, around 10:30 p.m. with a fireworks show the school’s vice president of institutional sponsored by the city of Orem. advancement. “We are here for them. …

“We’ve got to get things wrapped up at And many of their children and grandchila responsible time so we can keep friends dren will be going to college here.” with the neighbors,” Hale said.

Ed Hill, station manager at local counThose who are not ready to go home try station K-Bull 93 FM, said the concert after the show can attend a dance in the is a great way to celebrate the creation of main ballroom on campus. Dancegoers such a huge resource in the community, will be part of the official countdown to and he “jumped at the chance to help prouniversity status, said Cameron Martin, mote the show.” assistant to the president for institutional “And I love that this is a chance for development and planning. “This is going families to come out and spend time toto be one of these experiences where you gether in a family atmosphere,” he said. ask people, “Where were you that night?”

“The show has a lot of appeal to all ages.”

Martin said. “It is not something people After some pre-concert performers and will want to miss.” a comedy bit by host Johnny B, the show Aside from bringing the community will open with Josh Gracin followed by together and celebrating the school’s big Collin Raye and Joe Nichols. changes, Martin said UVUphoria events Hill said the three performers are a are also about gearing up the entire UVSC great choice for a single concert because community for the future. they each have different country styles.

“We hope these events bring on anGracin, a former “American Idol” contesother surge of energy that will take us through the next phase of the institution,” tant, will get the crowd pumped up; Raye he said. “It is the beginning of a new era will wow everyone with his vocal range of hard work and of growth around here.” and classic tunes; and then Nichols can

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Joe Nichols is slated to be the third of three country music stars to perform.

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The top six finalists of UVU’s Got Talent competition will perform at the Grand Celebration concert.

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dmit it. “American Idol” gets everyone in the mood to grab a microphone. It also got local resident Karen Tebbs thinking about what kind of talent has come out of Utah Valley State College over its six-decade history. So, Tebbs got her company, Utah Community Credit Union, to start a talent search and invited students and alumni to audition.

“So many people came out for it, and we saw just about every talent you could think of,” she said.

The top six finalists of the UVU’s Got Talent competition will perform before the three country stars at the Grand Celebration concert on June 30 as part of UVUphoria.

The contest judges will choose and announce a winner during the show, and the winner will receive $2,500. Some of the semi-finalists who did not make the top six will perform at the Family Fun Fest carnival outside of the ballpark on June 30 from 5 to 6:45 p.m. Auditions were held in March and April while UVSC students were still in school.

Current and former students came representing all different academic majors. Some were from the

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Clogging duo Sierra Dawes [left] and Jessica Lawrence {right] are two of the top finalists to compete in UVU’s Got Talent on June 30. music and theater departments while others were from the math and science side of campus.

They performed African drumming, yo-yo tricks, clogging and all kinds of singing and musical numbers. The wide variety of talent caught the attention of Beka Grulich, the assistant director of student

activities.

“The talent was huge, and I thought, ‘Why don’t we have you people perform all of the time?’ ” she said. “We could have done a whole show just with everyone who auditioned.”

There were three days of auditions and a semifinal round before the top six performing acts were chosen by a small group of judges.

The judges were described by Tebbs as everyday people.

“We wanted the judges to be people who could see what the general public would like,” she said.

The final six were supposed to only be a final five, but the scoring came down to less than a full point.

The organizers extended the final cut to a top six.

“One of the important points was entertainment value,” Tebbs said. “There was one contestant who sang a really well-written song, but he stopped in the middle of his performance.

It broke our hearts, but he lost a lot of points for that,” she said.

The six finalists included clog dancers, a guitar player, an entire jazz band and singers performing in the Broadway, country and popular genres.

“I don’t know how the judges did it,” Grulich said.

UVUphoria schedule for June 30 1-6:30 p.m.:

Open house for the new library

5-6:45 p.m.:

UVU Family Fun Fest — outside of the ballpark

7 p.m.:

Concert — Brent Brown Ballpark

10:30 p.m.:

Fireworks — at the end of the concert

Until 1 a.m.:

Dance, countdown to midnight — Grand Ballroom

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Playing for the crowd Up to 15,000 people are expected to attend Utah Valley State College’s Grand Celebration concert featuring country music stars Joe Nichols, Collin Raye and Josh Gracin.

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Josh Gracin Josh Gracin was the first contestant to bring country music to the “American Idol” stage when he appeared on the show in 2003 and made it to the top five.

He was known on the show for his high-energy personality and performances, and Ed Hill, the station manager at local country station K-Bull 93 FM, said that nothing about that has changed.

“Gracin is very outgoing,” Hill said. “He really knows how to work a crowd and be entertaining and have fun. He brings a lot of excitement and energy.”

While Gracin was an active-duty Marine when he competed on “Idol,” he is now a civilian living in a new home outside of Nashville with his young family, he said on his official Web site, www.joshgracin.com.

He said his goal is to combine live, fun country music with wit and wholesome fun. He released a self-titled debut album in 2004 and just released his second album, “We Weren’t Crazy,” in April.

He said he was able to give a lot more attention to the second album since he has been out of the military and that the collection of songs as a whole is a better fit for him this round.

“I wanted this album to reflect my energy and my values,” he said. “There’s nothing I love more than getting a crowd on its feet and getting them to sing along and rock with me to a great song. I also wanted songs of substance that really explain who I am and what I stand for, and that’s what I hope that we’ve accomplished.”

Hill said that while Gracin fits well into the country music scene, he is not a traditional country performer. Hill compared the young artist to a combination of Garth Brooks and Rascal Flatts — two acts known for high-energy performances.

“He can rock like the Rascals and other rock bands, but he can really sing the country stuff, too,” Hill said.

Some of Gracin’s hit singles include “We Weren’t Crazy,” “Nothin’ to Lose” and “Stay with Me.”

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Joe Nichols Joe Nichols, the headlining performer at the UVUphoria Grand Celebration, is a country singer with five albums under his belt.

His newest album, “Real Things,” was released in August 2007.

Ed Hill, the station manager at local country station K-Bull 93 FM, called Nichols’s voice a cross between country greats George Strait and Brad Paisley.

Nichols hit the popular country music scene in 2002 with his single “The Impossible.” He later released albums “Man with a Memory,” “Revelation,” “A Traditional Christmas” and “III” before “Real Things.”

In an interview posted on his official Web site, JoeNichols.com, Nichols said his most recent album has helped him return musically and personally to where he was before he became a fixture on the country scene.

He said that each of his albums has been a reflection of where he is in life. He is proud to no longer be in a destructive

party mode, as he was when he recorded “Revelation,” or in denial about his partying problems like when he recorded “III.” “With ‘Real Things,’ I think I’ve recaptured some of the little boy who moved to Nashville, who had no opinion about how he would present himself to people,” he said.

“It was a boyish kind of naiveté. This album’s not naïve.

But it’s getting back to the purity I had before I had ever made a record.”

Hill said the 31-year-old singer from Rogers, Ark., is down to earth and has played some highly successful shows in Utah.

“He’s good with the crowd,” Hill said.

“He’s what we call a future superstar of the [country] format. He’s got a lot of talent, and his musical range has been great for country.”

Some of Nichols’s most popular singles are “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” “I’ll Wait for You,” “Size Matters (Someday)” and “It Ain’t No Crime.”

After the UVUphoria show, Nichols will be back in Utah to perform in Vernal at the Uintah County Fair on Aug. 14.

Collin Raye Collin Raye raced to country stardom in 1991 with his single “Love, Me.” He has since released five platinum albums, 15 No. 1 hits and 24 Top 10 hits, according to his official Web site, www.collinraye.com.

Ed Hill, the station manager at local country station K-Bull 93 FM, said Raye is what they call a natural platinum hit-maker and so most people over age 30 have heard his recognizable hits. “He is awesome in concert,” Hill said. “He’s got these ballads and these big rock tunes and such a great range in his vocals.

He sings high, but he can sing it all.” On his Web site, Raye said he’s been singing professionally since he was a teenager and has never actually held any other job. He

said that as time goes on, the job means something different to him.

“In the beginning, I wanted hits and all that,” he said. “But what drives me now is what this music means to people.

Songs have landed on me that made me realize there’s more to this than I thought. It’s about entertaining people one minute and inspiring them the next.”

Raye toured around Texas and the west as a teenager in the Wray Brothers Band. The group created a fan base that Raye brought with him when he went solo, Hill said.

Some of Raye’s most recognizable hits are, “One Boy, One Girl,” “I Can Still Feel You” and “Little Red Rodeo.”

Expected at the celebration are the surviving former presidents.

Presidents of Utah Valley State College Hyrum Johnson

Director from 1941 – 1944 Hyrum Johnson, a native to Utah County, taught industrial arts classes in Spanish Fork and Pleasant Grove before becoming the first director of the school when it was called Central Utah Vocational School. He was a craftsman and teacher, and his enthusiasm and dedication to vocational education and his “never-say-die” attitude were instrumental in starting the school. Pressures and problems that occurred at the school and around the world with the war caused his health to deteriorate, and in 1944 he went on paid leave but never returned to lead the school.

Wilson Sorensen Director, President from 1946 – 1982

Wilson Sorensen started working for the Central Utah Vocational School as the treasurer and was promoted to become the director in 1944 after the replacement for Hyrum Johnson left.

He served in that role and then as the president of Central Utah Vocational School, Utah Trade Technical Institute and Utah Technical College at Provo. Lucille Stoddard, former dean, vice president and interim president of the school, said that if there was one word to

describe Sorensen, it would be visionary.

He was instrumental in moving the school from the fairgrounds campus to the Provo campus and then to the Orem campus.

His main interest was in providing classes to train individuals for the job market, especially in technical areas. The student center at the Orem campus is named after Sorensen, who lives in South Jordan and is still active with the school.

J. Marvin Higbee

President from 1982 – 1987 Formerly the president of Snow College, J. Marvin Higbee became the third college president and changed the name of the school for the fourth time to Utah Valley Community College. He expanded the college curriculum during his tenure as he oversaw the transition from institute to community college. The first associate’s degree was offered at the school in 1987 under his leadership. He saw the need in the community for a school that would not only meet the needs of trade students but would also teach and prepare students in liberal arts and more technical fields.

Kerry Romesburg President from 1988 – 2002

During the presidency of Kerry Romesburg, student enrollment skyrocketed and many changes were made on campus. In 1991, student enrollment was less than 9,000 students and by 2002 was more than 23,000. In 1992, the first three bachelor’s

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degrees were offered in business, computer science and technology management, and in 1993, this fourth president renamed the school for the fifth time to Utah Valley State College.

The McKay Events Center and the Liberal Arts Building were constructed during his presidency, and he planned and oversaw the construction of the Wasatch Mountain Campus in Heber City. He emphasized international education, arts and humanities across campus, while continuing to support trades and vocational training.

William A. Sederburg President from 2003 – present

William A. Sederburg was chosen from a large group of candidates to be the fifth president of the college. He has previously been the president of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. He also served as a state senator in Michigan. He received the CEO of the Year award in Utah in March 2008 from Utah Business magazine.

He oversaw the design and construction of the new library and led the campus directors in their plans to become a university.

Sederburg also implemented a strategic planning, budgeting and accountability model now used across the campus.

— Kathleen Hill, Assistant to the Assistant Vice President at UVSC

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isitors to Utah Valley State College on June 30 should be prepared to take a short campus tour when they arrive. Traffic will be diverted that day so that all cars end up on the main Campus Drive.

This road will lead drivers to the closest available parking on the north side of the McKay Events Center.

Direction of travel Whether visitors hit campus for a library tour or join the celebration for the concert, all UVSC traffic will flow counterclockwise on Campus Drive.

“They’ll get to drive right by the new library and see everything,” said Cameron Martin, the assistant to the president for institutional development and planning.

Handicapped parking A large area for handicapped parking will be open just outside of the events center.

Visitors and campus employees should be aware that parking lot “A,” which is just outside of the administration building, will be closed along with other lots close to that area of campus, he said. “The best way to do this is to come early and stay all day,” Martin said.

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Go green! Once a week UVSC celebrates Wolverine Wednesday, where students are encouraged to show some school spirit and wear their green and gold.

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You get to know your professor better.”

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To whom should you look for answers?

Every organization has a host of unsung heroes, and UVSC is no different. Meet five people who often work behind the scenes to make campus a better place.

Marcie Jessee Herald Correspondent

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Mark Bezzant in-house historian To Mark Bezzant, UVSC is history.

At least, that’s what his job is all about. Bezzant is the in-house historian for the ever-changing and ever-growing school.

“We’re responsible to track and factor in the process of writing another history of the college,” Bezzant said.

With the last written history compiled in 1982 by former president William Sorensen, Bezzant has his work cut out for him.

The role of the historian is key in documenting the progress and growth of education — especially at a school like UVSC, where history will be made yet again when it achieves university status on July 1.

While his work includes a lot of research and writing, Bezzant said he has particularly enjoyed a project that includes live film. “We’ve been filming some of the key players,” Bezzant said.

“So instead of just photographs, we’ve been interviewing the past presidents so we have a video history.”

For Bezzant, the role of historian is about more than compiling and organizing dates and names.

“I just love the stories,” Bezzant said. “I love the stories of success.

One of the things we say now is, ‘Success is a Utah Valley state of mind.’

What’s fun is to look back and see how that has been the state of mind since the college started. I love to learn about

the dedication of the faculty and staff.

It’s just amazing.”

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Jack Boswell director of grounds

Jack Boswell knows what it means to be committed to your job. In fact, during the winter months Boswell is on call, sometimes getting called out in the middle of the night — and if he’s lucky, he can wait to start work until 4 a.m.

Boswell is the director of grounds at UVSC, and part of his job is helping clear the parking lots, sidewalks and stairs of snow. “We were busy this winter because we had a lot of snow,” Boswell said. “If we know its going to

be a lighter storm, we’ll come in at 4 in the morning. If it’s going to be a heavy storm then we have the plows coming in at midnight. If it keeps snowing we just keep doing it.”

Boswell directs a team of about 20 full-time employees who work to keep the campus grounds beautiful, clean and maintained.

During the fall, Boswell stays busy with clearing leaves from the hundreds of trees and shrubs lining campus, while springtime means extra planting.

“In the early spring, we plant the flowers and get the lawns fertilized so we can basically take care of a big yard,” Boswell said. “We do about 80 flats of flowers just on our roundabouts.

We probably go through about 100 or 150 flats of flowers total.”

Boswell said some of the most rewarding parts of his job are the people he gets to work with and the opportunity to create something beautiful.

“You get to look at the campus in the early morning when everything is green and out in bloom and the sun is just coming up over the hill, and it’s a sight to behold,” Boswell said. “There is nothing better than green grass, flowers, trees and shrubs. I just like it.”

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The university prize comes after steady growth, improvement.

Changing to fit the times A

Teresa Wright Herald Correspondent

fter operating at a university

level for the past several years, Utah Valley State College is ready to take on the title of university.

In the fall of 2005, the Utah State Board of Regents met with top UVSC officials to discuss how the state college could qualify for and reach university status. Their discussions identified a list of criteria the institution would have to meet to become a university. To qualify, the school had to make a number of administrative changes. These included reductions in teacher workloads and academic advising ratios, reduced reliance on adjunct faculty, and proof that the institution is retaining students past lower-division programs and graduating them in four-year degrees. UVSC also had to construct a new library that would meet the needs of the new university. Perhaps most importantly, UVSC had to create and offer graduate programs.

Since 2005, UVSC has been growing steadily, adding degrees and programs and improving its structure to align itself with university-quality standards.

Currently, UVSC has met all the criteria and is operating at a university level.

When it officially becomes a university on July 1, the biggest change will be the addition of UVU’s first graduate program, a master’s degree in education (M. Ed.).

In Utah, university status means the ability and authorization to award graduate degrees,” said Commissioner of Higher Education Richard Kendall.

Thus, to become a university, UVSC had to create at least one graduate program. On July 1, the institution will open its doors as Utah Valley University, with a master’s degree in education as its first graduate program.

“The response to that degree will be overwhelming,” said Chris Taylor, associate vice president of college marketing and communications. “I think we had over 100 people on the waiting list before that degree was even approved

… This valley is demanding more master’s degrees, as evidenced by this degree, and so this initiative will help satisfy some of that need here in the local economy.”

According to Taylor, the population growth in Utah Valley will create a staggering need for educators in the next five to 10 years. The degree will “increase the instructional skill of teachers … and make it possible for teachers to receive more pay, so it’s very attractive for a number of reasons.”

As of July 1, the Master of Education program is the only graduate program that UVU will offer. However, other master’s degrees are in the works. The Woodbury School of Business is currently writing a proposal for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Stanley Jenne, dean of the Woodbury School of Business, hopes that the program will be approved and available to students by 2010, although an official timeframe has not been established. “All degree programs need to be approved by the State Board of Regents. While we do believe that the program will be approved, it is subject to their timetable,” he said. Additionally, the College of Science and Health is planning to offer a master’s degree in nursing.

In addition to offering graduate degrees, UVSC had to make a number of changes in its faculty structure and workload. Because the school had grown at a time when limited financial resources were available, teacher workloads were fairly high, with UVSC teachers handling an average of 27 credit hours per semester. To qualify for university status, UVSC had to reduce teachers’ workloads to approximately 12 credit hours per faculty member. This required UVSC to hire a number of new teachers, advisors and support staff. UVSC authorized more than 100 new hires to handle the change, and teacher workloads are currently at their goal of 12 credit hours per semester (a maximum of 25 hours per school year). These numbers are similar to teacher workload ratios at

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Answering questions Teresa Wright Herald Correspondent

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Leda Coleman [left] of Payson and Jamie Hatfield of Springville study for final exams in the halls of UVSC.

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peer institutions like Weber State service. It’s one thing to take the course University. from someone who is a pure academic Another important focus — there’s valuable stuff there in the status change was — but just as valuable is Our directed at hiring more someone who has been retention advisors to give stuout for 15-20 years in the numbers will dents more personal field, doing what is beand accessible help. ing taught,” Yells said. likely continue to Last year, the inWhile the contriclimb, given the new stitution hired 10 butions of adjunct nature of our new advisors, and faculty are valuable, a for the upcoming university requires a institution. school year will solid base of full-time — Chris Taylor hire five or six professors. In 2005, admore. Currently, junct faculty comprised associate vice president of one advisor handles 70 percent of faculty in college marketing and about 408 students, some departments. Today, communications down from 697 during that number is below 50 perthe 2004-05 school year. One cent, which is more reflective of of the most significant changes a university.

UVSC has made is to reduce its reliAnother change relates to student ance on adjunct faculty. retention, especially in upper-division Adjunct faculty members are exlevels. In previous years, UVSC’s focus perts who work directly within the field had been on applied technology and they teach. They are hired by a school lower-division programs. To become a on a course-by-course basis. Adjunct university, UVSC needed to show that faculty also differ from full-time profesit could retain students through all four sors in that they do not have the same years of baccalaureate programs. The obligations to the university in terms of number of students who have completresearch and service. ed their degrees has risen steadily over David Yells, interim associate dean the past few years. In 2005-06, UVSC for the School of Humanities, Arts, and awarded 3,153 degrees and certificates.

Social Sciences, said adjunct faculty In 2006-07, that number rose to 3,287; “are engaged in their own discipline, during the 2007-08 school year, 3,409 and they see teaching as a way to students graduated. According to Tayenhance their skills and pass on their lor, “Our retention numbers will likely knowledge.” continue to climb, given the new nature “They provide an extremely valuable of our institution.”

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: When will UVU diplomas be issued, and can I get one even if I already graduated?

A: University diplomas will be available beginning July 1, 2008. All graduates of UVSC (or UVCC, UTC, etc.) may contact the Alumni Association to have their diplomas reissued to reflect Utah Valley University after that date. Because of this, current students should not delay graduation.

Q: Which master’s or doctorate degrees will be offered, and when will they be available?

A: In its new capacity as a university, UVU’s first graduate program will be a master of education (M. Ed.) The degrees most likely to follow will be in nursing and business, based on the high demand for these degrees. The details and focus of these degrees are still being refined. A timeline has not yet been determined and will be established together with the Utah State Board of Regents. A proposal is in the process to request approval of an MBA program to begin in fall 2009 or fall 2010. Announcements of the MBA program will be posted on the Woodbury School of Business Web site as soon as approval is finished.

There are no plans to offer or seek any Ph.D. programs. The only institutions in the Utah System of Higher Education that offer doctorate degree programs are the University of Utah and Utah State University (Type I institutions, as defined by the Board of Regents). However, as is current practice, Utah State University may offer some doctoral degree programs at UVU facilities.

Q: Will there be more minors and majors as a result of switching to a university?

A: As a university, UVU will continue to

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expand educational offerings to give students a comprehensive set of minors and majors from which to choose. Academic Affairs manages a list of future degree programs according to demand and feasibility through the Regent approval process. New programs available as of 2008 are dental hygiene and a master’s degree in education.

Q: Will UVSC change its primary school colors or mascot when it becomes UVU? A: University Image Committee made up of UVSC faculty, staff, administration, students and alumni, as well as community members, will address all image issues facing the institution as it transitions to university status, including logos, school colors, etc. At this point, the only definitive decisions have been that UVU’s primary color will remain green and the mascot and nickname will remain Wolverines.

Q: Will UVSC remain committed to its community college role?

A: Yes. In addition to select master’s degrees, UVU will continue to offer a wide variety of baccalaureate and associate degrees, as well as vocational certificates. As a university, UVU will retain its commitment to providing opportunity to all people at all levels. Like UVSC, UVU will have an open admissions policy for its certificate, associate and baccalaureate programs.

Q: Will there be an increase in student enrollment?

A: Yes. The demographics of the region indicate that an increase in enrollment is inevitable. Changing the institution’s status to a university will naturally attract students who may not otherwise come. However, it may also deter other students who feel intimidated by a university title. UVU will make a concerted effort to reach these student to ensure them that UVU still fits their need for a community college educational experience.

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ome UVSC students are wondering how the institution’s change to university status will affect their pocketbooks.

They shouldn’t worry too much. While the costs of running a university are higher than the costs to maintain a state college, state funds will provide a big part of the necessary resources. From 2007 to 2008, the Utah State Legislature voted to appropriate $10 million extra to UVSC’s budget, the amount the school needed to fund the status change. However, highereducation tuition costs will rise slightly every year throughout Utah, and the increased costs will affect UVU. During the 2007-08 school year, resident tuition and fees for full-time students cost $1,764; full-time nonresident students paid $5,514 in tuition and fees. In 2008-09, tuition and fees for full-time students will cost $1,876

for Utah residents and $5,757 for nonresidents. The State Board of Regents establishes tuition and fees.

While the cost of education is climbing, UVSC’s tuition costs will remain comparable to costs at its peer institutions, Southern Utah University and MARIO RUIZ/Daily Herald Weber State University. As Evan and Elissa Reid meet with financial aid advisor Clinton Martinez at UVSC on June 3.

Chris Taylor, associate vice president of marketing and communications at UVSC, explains, “the university status gram, are assessed based on the amount terCard, American Express and Discover initiative has never been intended to be of credit-hours taken. In 2008-09, a 12credit cards are also accepted, but they carried on the backs of the students.” credit hour course load will cost resident require an additional 2.75-percent service The resident tuition and fees of a fullstudents $2,435 and nonresident students charge. Students can mail in payment or time undergraduate student in 2008-09 $7,547 in tuition and fees. As with underdrop it off at the cashier’s office. Shortcontributes an estimated 45 percent of the graduate tuition, these rates will likely term loans, scholarships, tuition payment cost of that student’s education of $4,186. increase slightly each year. plans and other forms of financial aid are State tax funds provide the remaining To avoid paying late fees or having available to students who qualify. support for the full cost of instruction. courses dropped, students must pay To calculate tuition costs or for quesTuition and fees for the Master of Edutuition by the payment deadline with a tions about tuition and fees at UVSC, cation (M. Ed.), UVU’s first graduate procheck, money order or debit card. Masvisit www.uvsc.edu/students/financial.

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Wolverine school mascot

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He does his own special tricks, has a large fan base and a secret identity.

No it’s not your favorite comic book hero — it’s the UVSC mascot, Wolverine.

The secret identity of the mascot is so protected that he can’t even reveal to roommates or friends the true nature of his after-school job. “My roommate happens to be my wife, so she knows,” Wolverine said.

“I can’t really sneak out of the house in a big furry costume without her knowing.”

Growing up, Wolverine was a big sports fan and later, as a UVSC student, found it was a natural transition for him to go from sideline supporter to a super fan in costume on the field. “It just seemed like something I was born to do,” Wolverine said. Now in his second year as the school mascot, Wolverine said he has learned all of the different roles he has to play.

“The biggest role is being at sporting events and supporting the team and getting the crowd pumped up and playing with the kids,” Wolverine said.

Between parades, public appearances and sporting events, the job of the Wolverine can become time consuming. To keep up with the demand for Wolverine appearances, often more than one student will fill the role during a school year.

Despite the busy schedule, Wolverine said there are few drawbacks as a school mascot. “It’s very fun to interact with the kids and it’s really rewarding. There’s

hardly anything bad about the job — but probably the worst part would be the heat in the summertime: You get really, really hot,” Wolverine said.

The UVSC student said he learns a lot of his tricks and stunts from watching other mascots in action and practicing on his own. “It kind of comes with experience,” Wolverine said. “The more you’re in the suit the more you become the wolverine.”

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Karen Olsen executive secretary to the president

Behind every great president is a great secretary. Karen Olsen, the executive secretary to the president, often can be found

behind the scenes, making sure things are running smoothly as she coordinates all of the people and information that go through the office of the president.

“A lot of visits to campus involve the president,” Olsen said. “People want to have him there at events so I’m pretty much there when it all happens.”

Olsen also schedules appointments and screens calls, and plans the president’s travel and budget. When she is not busy with those tasks, she also serves as secretary to several of the leadership boards on campus providing agenda minutes and handouts.

“It’s kind of hard to pin down exactly what I do,” Olsen said. With all of the many hats that Olsen is asked to wear, she said the toughest part is balancing everything. “Just making sure that everything is taken care of and juggling the responsibilities is the hardest,” Olsen said.

Despite her busy schedule coordinating appearances for the president or figuring budgets and agendas Olsen said she has truly enjoyed her five years at UVSC. “I love the energy on a college campus,” Olsen said. “I really like the whole education venue. With the students, faculty and staff there is just an energy here that I really like.”

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omework and cramming for finals are a common experience for college students everywhere, though students looking for a unique experience can look to Utah Valley State College.

The Orem-based school draws on its strengths, adds a few quirks and a rich history to be what it is today — a school unlike any other.

Flexibility

Trades

When Utah Valley State College officially becomes a university, it will be a part of a select few to also offer trade education.

“Universities usually just have an emphasis in language arts or business,” said Kim Chapman, communications manager for UVSC. “But trades are a big part of what UVSC is. It’s such a different education than a four-year bachelor’s degree.”

The school currently has an apprenticeship program, a hands-on education in various trades such as diesel mechanics, plumbing and aircraft mechanics.

“UVSC’s trades kind of started the whole institution,” Chapman said.

Popular programs include the firefighter’s courses, aviation and culinary arts.

Like the apprenticeship program, these courses help students put their learning to the test in real-life applications.

“We have a restaurant on campus run by culinary arts students,” Chapman said.

“We don’t have a football team, but we do have a restaurant.”

While many schools are rooted in age-old traditions, this state college has a unique history filled with change.

“It’s always evolving,” said Jeri Allphin, director of alumni relations. “It’s not afraid to change. The administration and everyone that follows along are not afraid to make the changes so that it’s always meeting the needs of the community.”

During its 63-year history the evergrowing school has gone through five name changes: Central Utah Vocational Another unique feature about the local School, Utah Trade Technical Institute, college is the structure.

Utah Technical College at Provo, Utah The sprawling campus has 16 main Valley Community College and Utah Valbuildings and each one is connected ley State College. The sixth to the other through a series of change will happen July Flexibility hallways.

1 with Utah Valley Uniand a “You don’t have to go versity. outside to go anywhere,” School President willingness to do said. “You can William Sederburg things differently run Chapman navigate through the halls said the atmosphere deep in the blood here to get to all of your classes.” of change gives the This feature is a favorite students and faculty at the institution. among students, especially a unique perspective. during cold and snowy Utah “I have not run into — William Sederburg winters. “I think the archivery many people here UVSC president tecture of the building, where who think, ‘We can’t everything is connected, gives it do that.’ ” Sederburg said. a smaller feel,” Rasmussen said. “Here “Flexibility and a willingness to do things you have 24,000 students, but where all differently run deep in the blood here at the the buildings are connected, it gives it an institution.” intimate feel.”

Bob Rasmussen, assistant vice president of student life, said the flexibility and growth of the school adds a unique dynamic to the college campus.

Another spot on campus, not connected “There is always that sense of progresto the main buildings by hallways, stands sion,” Rasmussen said. “That sense that out amid the modern architecture. we’re moving forward and making things This building has a history as rich as the happen.” The constant sense of change at college itself: the Bunnell Pioneer House.

UVSC leads many to speculate about the Located north of the Sorensen Student future of the local school.

Center, the pioneer home often is overAllphin said she is not surprised it looked by passersby. will became a university, and won’t be Now, with the building of the new digisurprised to see it continually grow and tal learning center, student traffic will be change in the future. directed past the historic home of pioneers, “It’s still a diamond in the rough,” Stephen Ithamer and Mary Bunnell. The Allphin said. “We’re still scratching the house was the heart of their 60-acre surface.” family farm in Lakeview, now present-day

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In 1966, President Wilson Sorensen obtained the house and surrounding property to build the new campus. The school eventually was built around the pioneer home, which was later listed in the National Register as a public state building.

The home is one of only six houses built in Orem prior to 1900 that remains.

Student-centered Sederburg said UVSC’s first commitment is to the students. “I think some of the inherent strength of the school is that it has grown up with the student as the center of the conversation,” he said.

“Some other schools are more administrator- or faculty-centered, but there is a huge tradition here that the school is all about the student.”

This focus translates into smaller class sizes, with an average of 30-35 students. Many students agree that the smaller class sizes have given them more opportunities to work directly

with their professor and develop relationships with fellow classmates. “I really like the small class sizes,” said 24-year-old Michelle Griffin of Orem. “In my upper-division classes there are only about 10 or 11 of us students.”

Allphin, who graduated in 1995, said she is still in contact with many of her professors from her time at UVSC. “The thing about this place that made it unique was that my professors took a personal interest in me,” Allphin said.

“If you needed someone to be interested in you, you had it. I called many of them by their first name, and I felt like they cared about me and wanted me to be successful.”

Rasmussen believes the close student body and faculty have led to a friendlier, more welcoming campus.

“A stranger can automatically feel like they are a part of something bigger than themselves,” Rasmussen said. “The friendly staff and student body give a sense of acceptance wherever you’re coming from.”

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Ben Patient peer advisor At each of the seven Instant Info desks on campus sits a host of students ready to tell you everything and anything about UVSC. “We’re always learning the new things going on and have to keep updated on the events,” said Ben Patient, one of the Instant Info desk

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peer advisors.

The student advisors are the first people to talk to when you are lost, and they are the best source for any questions related to the resources at UVSC. Patient, who has worked part-time as a peer advisor since October 2007, said one of the most common questions he is asked has to do with finding different buildings on campus. “We help all the lost children,” Patient said. “We either direct them there or escort them to where they need to go.”

During the first few weeks of a semester, Patient said they are often asked to help students with registering for classes and learning how to use the Web site.

Being an expert on UVSC campus is only one of the perks; Patient said he really enjoys interacting with the students as well.

“It’s a good chance to help people, and you get to know a lot of the students without having to be in class with them,” Patient said.

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Campus hot spots Woodbury Art Museum One mile from campus sits a UVSC work of art — the Woodbury Art Museum inside University Mall in Orem.

The college-owned museum regularly displays work from current art professionals and traveling exhibits. The current exhibit is the Da Vinci Experience, an interactive exhibit of more than 60 machines inspired by the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Because of the cost associated with bringing this exhibit to the museum, there is currently an admission charge, though the museum is normally free to the public. Robin DeSpain, registrar at the museum, said there is a fundraising project in the works to raise money for a new art center on campus.

“Our goal is to become something that is contributing not only to the student body but as a benefit to the community,” DeSpain said.

When the Da Vinci Experience closes, the museum will resume displaying its permanent collection.

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A lesser-known place to be at UVSC isn’t even located at the Orem campus.

“I think that increasingly you have to take your programs to the students instead of the student coming to you through satellite campuses or classes on the Internet,” said UVSC President William Sederburg.

The school has another location in Orem as well as sites in Heber City, Lehi and Spanish Fork. All of these satellites have the coursework for a student to achieve an associate degree. “The intersection here [in Orem] is getting congested,” Sederburg said. “We’re expected to be 40,000 students in the future, so we literally have to be located on several campuses.”

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hether you prefer a rowdy sporting event to a quiet art museum, or fast-food lunch to a fine-dining experience, UVSC has a place for you. Students and visitors alike will enjoy a visit to one of these 10 campus hot spots.

Greg’s Restaurant A unique hot spot on UVSC campus is the student-run Greg’s Restaurant. The fine-dining establishment is a popular eatery with students and the community.

The culinary students put their schooling to the test when they prepare up to 720 plates one night a week. The restaurant is located on the ground level of the college’s McKay Events Center, next to the ticket lobby.

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The central building houses the bookstore, Scoops ice cream parlor and an extensive food court.

The center also includes a post office, housing services, the intramural office, a copy center and a credit union. The Outdoor Adventure Center offers sporting and outdoor activity rentals for UVSC students as well as the public. Upstairs, the center houses the Ragan Theater, where many of the college’s music, dance and drama productions take place.

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The Quad When the weather warms up, students head outside for socializing and studying on the quad.

The large grassy area provides beautiful surroundings including a large waterfall feature, several statues and stadium-style tiered levels for lounging on the grass.

“When it is warm weather, I study out there,” said Jentrie Darling, a UVSC student and recruitment ambassador. “I love it.”

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McKay Events Center For the students and the community, one of UVSC’s most popular venues is the McKay Events Center. “We do concerts ... venues, expos, and we also house the Utah Flash ... and all of UVSC basketball,” said Nate Sandall, a ticket office supervisor at the center. “We also have some of the high-school events such as state wrestling championships, state volleyball and drill team competitions.”

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Hall of Flags Whether you’re looking to study, socialize or scrutinize, the Hall of Flags is a great place to hang out.

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each other out because there are chairs along both sides, so it’s kind of a runway of sorts,” said Kim Chapman, communications manager for UVSC. This hotspot is a literal hallway, located in the Browning Administration Building, decorated with flags from around the world. Each flag represents the nationality of at least one UVSC student.

Grand Ballroom Study Area If there is one activity that a student becomes very familiar with it is studying. Demand is so high for study areas that the new Digital Learning Center will have locations open 24/7 for late-night and early-morning studying.

Former student Terrie Giraud recalls spending many long hours at her favorite study spot, an area tucked away in a less-traveled route on campus.

The chairs — and most importantly, the large comfortable beanbag chairs — above the ballroom located in the student center are a popular study spot.

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Pope Science Building The Pope Science Building offers more than biology degrees. The main court of the building also is home to a unique exhibit. The large swinging pendulum is the focal point of the building, swaying continually throughout the day. At the top of each hour, the pendulum knocks down a peg that sits on a circular stand beneath the rotation of the pendulum. The pendulum demonstrates the earth’s rotation.

“That is always a favorite stop when I give tours of campus,” said Darling, the student and recruitment ambassador. “The kids just want to stop and stare at it.”

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Disc Golf Course UVSC is now home to a popular Utah sport — disc golf — sometimes called Frisbee golf. The game consists of throwing discs at targets or baskets. The object of the game is to make it to the end of the course with the fewest number of throws.

UVSC’s brand-new disc golf course opened for operation in early April and already has become a popular course with students and members of disc golf leagues. Earls said this course was designed to be particularly family friendly and safe for players of all skills. The course is open and free to the community.

The course is located between main campus and the baseball fields, around the two large ponds on campus.

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he move to university status has invited a number of changes in UVSC’s infrastructure, with several departments undergoing name or structural changes. On July 1, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences will divide, becoming two separate entities: the School of the Arts and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The current School of General Academics will change its name to University College, while the School of Business will gain some programs and faculty while losing others. Several majors will be reassigned to different departments, and a few of the schools will change their names.

While some of the changes are cosmetic, the structural redesign represents a much-needed response to UVSC’s significant growth.

“I like to use the metaphor of a super-tanker,” said Kathy Debenham, interim dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. As the largest academic school at UVSC, it has become “a constant challenge because of its size.”

Debenham, who will become the interim dean of the School of the Arts on July 1, is enthusiastic about the split. “It will allow us to support students and faculty more effectively,” she explained. “When you get into these smaller groups, you’re able to just zero in … and focus on administrative issues that may be unique.”

Although the School of General Academics will remain structurally identical when it becomes University College on July 1, its name change is significant to UVSC’s new identity. According to the proposal the school sent to the Board of Regents applying for its new name, “the name change is to bring attention to the unique role and mission of this school.” The name is a “nationally recognized classification [that] serves as an additional and significant indicator of the new university role.”

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ally contains closely aligned disciplines, while a college’s disciplines are typically wider spread. To align themselves with this definition, the School of Science and Health and the School of Technology and Computing will both become colleges on July 1. Their structure and function will remain the same. There will be no change to the name or status of the School of Education or the School of Continuing Education.

The Woodbury School of Business is another department that has undergone a name change. In October 2007, the Woodbury family announced a gift of $20 million to the department known as the School of Business. Following the announcement, the school officially added “Woodbury” to its name. Although the school officially changed its title last year, the current move to university status will help publicize the new name. According to Stanley Jenne, dean of the Woodbury School of Business, the name change adds to the school’s status.

“Many prestigious business schools around the country carry the name of a donor or a significant friend to the institution,” Jenne said.

“To me, the Woodbury name represents hard work and integrity … hopefully it will inspire our students to do better in their careers, to hold themselves to a higher personal standard.”

In addition to the department splits and name changes, a number of majors will be reassigned to different schools and colleges. For example, the criminal justice and forensics majors, along with the Police Academy, will no longer be part of the School of Business. Instead, they will move to the College of Technology and Computing, a grouping that is similar to that found in other universities.

The reorganization also will allow majors with similar needs to group together and departments to more efficiently respond to their unique issues. Overall, the administration says UVSC’s structural changes will allow it to function better as a university.

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n Utah, the term, “university,” means an institution that is able and authorized to offer master’s degrees. Thus, the creation of master’s programs is a key element of the change to university status. On July 1, the newly designated UVU will officially offer its first graduate program, a Master of Education (M. Ed.). High local demand for this degree contributed to UVSC’s decision to offer this as the institution’s first graduate program.

Chris Taylor, associate vice president of marketing and communications, says, “The response to that degree will be overwhelming. We had over one hundred people on the waiting list before that degree was even approved.”

Similar demand has also driven the conception of the most likely upcoming master’s degrees in business and nursing, which are still in the design and approval processes. The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program could be available as early as 2009.

Graduate students in the M. Ed. program can choose between two different tracks: Instructional Models or English as a Second Language (ESL).

The Instructional Models track places heavier emphasis on teaching methods, while the ESL track focuses on techniques for teaching students who are learning to speak English. Both tracks will rely heavily on classroom experience. Because most students in the program will be teachers, the program is designed so graduate

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students will have a light course load during the school year (when they will be teaching in their own classrooms) and a heavier load during the summer months.

The program’s primary focus will be K-12 education, but it is also appropriate for teachers of higher education.

Bryant Farnsworth, dean of the School of Education, clarifies: “We do have students who are in higher education, and we will be adjusting to meet the needs of those students as well. It will pretty much cover the gamut of people working across the board.”

This flexibility comes in part from the fact that the instructional models being taught are applicable in different contexts to students of different ages and skill levels.

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As UVSC has evolved, so have the classes. In 1952, the school offered vocational agriculture.

In 1953, cosmetology and sewing classes were approved. In 1957, professional driving classes started, and in 1964, it introduced a power-sewing class.

The graduate program in education is attractive to students for several reasons. The most obvious is better pay, since teachers with master’s degrees can earn more than teachers with bachelor’s degrees alone. These graduates also have more career options available within their field, such as consulting jobs or positions on the district or state level. “It opens up opportunities for them to do new and exciting work, and stay in the field of education at the same time,” Farnsworth said.

Currently, UVSC has no plans to offer any postgraduate (doctorate) programs. However, it will continue to add bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

All degree programs are subject to approval by the Utah State Board of Regents.

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hen UVSC becomes UVU on July 1, not much will change in the admissions process.

As in past years, the university will have an open admissions policy for undergraduate studies. That means virtually anyone can get in, as long as the required steps to apply are followed. Application fees, standardized testing, and the application form itself also will remain the same.

However, there will be a few changes. Students can now apply for the university’s first graduate program, a master’s degree in education. The graduate program will not have an open admissions policy. Additionally, residency requirements changed in 2007, making it easier for students to obtain Utah residency for tuition purposes. However, in general, applying for UVU will be the same as applying for UVSC. Prospective students should visit www.uvu.edu/futurestudents to get started. By clicking the “Apply Now” link, applicants can view and download a printable version of the admissions application, or directly apply online. Prospective students also can pick up an application from the Admissions Office located in Room No. BA-106, or call (801) 863-8466 to have the university send them an application and information on the school.

As in past years, there is a one-time, nonrefundable application fee of $35.

Financially independent students who are from another state but have lived in Utah for at least one year will be able to apply for Utah residency on July 1. Applicants must have no previous school credit from a Utah school before applying.

If applicants have earned college credit at another institution, they

must have their official transcripts sent to the admissions office by the application deadline. Students should begin the process early, as it can take several weeks.

UVSC currently requires prospective students to take the ACT or SAT to assess their college preparedness.

As a university, UVU will continue this policy for all students younger than age 21 who have not completed 15 or more college credits. ACT or SAT scores must be submitted to the Admissions Office by the application deadline. For fall semester 2008, that deadline is Aug. 15. For admission to the spring 2009 semester, the deadline is Dec. 20.

UVU will admit anyone who completes an application. However, applicants with low ACT or SAT scores will need to take additional placement testing. Students who score lower than 19 on the English, reading and/or math sections of the ACT, or less than 500 in verbal and/or math on the SAT, must take a UVSC placement test called the COMPASS exam to determine course placement. The test is offered in Testing Services in the Wolverine Service Center, Room No. 101. The placement test is free, and there is no appointment required. Since the test lasts about two hours, students should check testing center hours to make sure they have enough time to complete it.

UVSC is currently accepting applications to its first graduate program, the master of education (M. Ed.) To apply, prospective graduate students must submit a separate application for the program, which contains a written section where the applicant discusses the impact he or she would make on the teaching profession. Applicants also must submit all college transcripts, their GED scores, three letters of recommendation, and the $45 application fee. For international students, the application fee is $100.

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ith UVSC’s change from state college to university status, graduates from previous years can have their diplomas reissued with the Utah Valley University name. UVSC anticipates a high response rate, as alumni value the title of a university-level education.

According to Chris Taylor, associate vice president of marketing and communications at UVSC, “there is a prestige and credibility factor that comes along with a university distinction.”

But it’s important to remember that UVSC has been operating at a university level for the past several years. In terms of course offerings and educational quality, UVSC has continually offered its students a first-rate education. Taylor says the term “is more descriptive of the education our students have been receiving.”

UVSC’s most recent graduating class, the class of 2008, had the option of receiving diplomas immediately with

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UVSC has reduced the percentage of credit hours taught by adjunct and part-time faculty from about 57 percent in 2005 to just under 48 percent as of last year.

the UVSC name or to wait until July 1, when diplomas could be issued with the UVU name. More than 80 percent of the graduating class chose to defer their diplomas.

As of July 1, anyone who has graduated from Utah Valley State College — by any of its previous names — can have their diplomas reissued to reflect the name change. UVSC has undergone a total of five name changes to date; the change to university status will be the sixth. Whether a person graduated from Central Utah Vocational School, Utah Trade Technical Institute, Utah Technical College at Provo, Utah Valley Community College, or UVSC, they will now be eligible to claim the distinction of a university degree. “An alumnus of any institution is an alumnus of that institution regardless of the name,” Taylor said.

To have a diploma changed, graduates should visit www.uvu.edu/alumni.

The site contains a step-by-step online guide through the process of receiving a new diploma.

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VSC currently has thriving programs for distance education and concurrent enrollment. Designed to serve the needs of individuals who want to earn college credit in nontraditional ways, these programs will continue through UVSC’s change to university status.

Administrators hope that university status will help the programs gain visibility and generate interest within the community. To ensure that these programs meet university-level standards, the departments continuously work to enhance their offerings.

Concurrent enrollment, a program that allows high-school students to earn college credit, has become more popular over the past few years.

Utah is a national leader in concurrent-enrollment programs, allowing students to earn both high-school and college credit at once. Tuition is waived for the high school students taking these courses.

UVSC requires that concurrentenrollment instructors be qualified to teach at a college level, attend training meetings on UVSC campus and demonstrate their teaching in instructional settings. In 2005, the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) accredited UVSC’s concurrent-enrollment program. Spencer Childs, the program manager, says it’s common for people to worry that concurrent-enrollment classes aren’t on par with college standards. In Childs’s experience, the opposite is true. “In most cases, when I visit classrooms or talk to our instructors, our high-school students are actually doing more work,” he says.

Concurrent-enrollment students also have additional scholarship opportunities. The state-sponsored New Century Scholarship is one example: If a student graduates from high school with a two-year associate degree, the state will pay 75 percent of his or her tuition at state schools.

Distance education is a popular option with people who want to earn college credit but cannot attend traditional classes. It appeals to people who work full-time or at odd hours.

According to John Krutsch, senior director of distance education, “We have so many stories of folks who have come back ... otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to.” Distance education options include Internet and television courses as well as a high-tech option called Live Interactive, where a teacher broadcasts a regularly scheduled class from UVSC campuses to receiving classrooms throughout the state. Students in remote locations can respond and ask questions that the instructor can immediately hear and answer.

UVSC’s distance-education program offers more than 150 courses. Online, students can earn college credit and even four-year degrees in some majors, along with two-year associate degrees and professional certificates, without ever attending a traditional classroom.

The distance-education program is tied to the academic departments on campus, making an online degree from UVSC the equivalent of a degree earned directly on campus. “We have a staff of instructional designers on staff to ensure that coursework is at least as rigorous as if it was in the classroom,” says Krutsch. With the change to UVU, the distance-education program will continue to expand its courses and offerings. Plans for bringing more degrees online include an upcoming degree in technology management. Distance education also will offer courses that support the new master’s degree in education.

Students are especially attracted to distance education and concurrent enrollment because they provide exceptional educational value and opportunity. Last year, about 6,000 students participated in UVSC’s concurrent-enrollment and distanceeducation programs. As a university, UVU will continue to advance and improve these programs.

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We requires a high ing the community know what classes level of academic engagement aspects excellence. Says they are taking. We of the program,” said Michael Shaw, know what they are Shaw. The number of director of the honColloquium activities ors program, “We interested in. on campus is expected to seek students that grow, and a community — Tiffany Nez are motivated by intelservice component is in the program coordinator lectual and other kinds works. of academic and creative Beginning fall semester, honors challenges.” students can participate in UVSC’s The ideal applicant for the honors first residential housing program at program is one “who is excited about Ventana Apartments, a five-minute challenging coursework; the one who walk from campus. Honors students is looking to be pushed in their classes are grouped together on the same floors and to work hard,” Shaw said. Howwith residential assistants, and rent ever, the honors program is not just is subsidized. This gives students the for students who get perfect grades. chance to live with peers who share A minimum GPA of 3.4 is required, their commitment to education and but a student’s extracurricular and community. community service activities also are The honors program has also strucconsidered. tured a first-year classroom program Students must take an average of for honors students, the Legacies proone honors course per semester to gram. Students are required to take remain in the program. In addition to two three-credit interdisciplinary coursgraduating with the honors designation, es, Ancient Legacies and Modern Legahonors students get priority registration cies. Capped at 15 students per class, dates for classes and one-on-one advisthe Legacies courses are staffed with ing and mentoring with professors. Tiftop faculty members from the various fany Nez, honors program coordinator, departments. The purpose, according says, “We know our students. We don’t to Shaw, is to expose the students to just recognize a face. We know where great thinking from various disciplines. they’re from. We know what classes “We don’t want to intimidate our they are taking. We know what they students,” he said. “We want to bring are interested in.” Honors classes have a them in and encourage them and teach maximum of 20 students. them how to succeed. It’s to show Students also can register for an them that they actually can do it, and honors colloquium, where they attend instill a great degree of confidence in planned cultural activities and outdoor their abilities. We have a very vibrant events for credit. These activities can program.”

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Senior at UVSC: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been greatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x2C6;Ť The Daily Herald asked a few students about their UVSC experience.

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Jeff Olsen Age: 25 Major: Accounting Hometown: Hurricane, Utah Class Standing: Senior DH: Tell us a little about yourself.

Olsen: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m married; I have one daughter, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re expecting one more child â&#x20AC;&#x201D; donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what it is yet. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just excited to graduate, to move on to other things. I really like fishing ... outdoor kinds of activities, hiking, those kinds of things. After I graduate, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll commission as a second lieutenant in the Army, and then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have some training; and then I want to get my masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in accounting,

hopefully at BYU or U of A. DH: What brought you to UVSC? Olsen: Well, I got a scholarship here, so I just came here. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in the Army ROTC on campus since February of 2006, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about two and a half years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great. Being in the ROTC has been a great experience. We get to go shoot paintball guns all the time. We

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have a lot of good leadership opportunities. We get to interact with other people in the school and do the color guard and do a few different activities throughout the school. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a break once in a while to do other things than just study.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to get to know other people in the ROTC and have a good relationship.

I wanted to become an officer, but also Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always just been interested in going into the Army and those kinds of activities, like land navigation and different activities like that. My dad was in the Army; he had a good experience. I just felt like it was the right decision for me at the time, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m real glad that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done it.

DH: How would you describe your UVSC experience thus far?

Olsen: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to have close relationships with a lot of the profes-

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sors, especially in accounting. I work here in the lab, tutoring in accounting. I work with the professors quite a bit. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to talk to them quite a bit, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to help me out.

DH: How do you anticipate that this will change as the school changes to UVU? Olsen: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a little bit more name recognition and appreciation for university status; also, the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business is accredited. I think the level of education will increase over time as more Ph.Ds will be added. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect a whole lot of change; the masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program is going to be in education, and hopefully in the future theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have one in business administration. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think things are going to change too much in the accounting department.

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Chester Powelson, Sheree Lewis and Janette Grimshaw [from left to right] participate in a meeting in which UVSC students and Independence High School faculty discuss potential mediation and orientation solutions for next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incoming freshmen at Independence High School on May 13.

The future UVU seeks Carnegie Foundation classification as community-focused school.

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embers of Utah Valley State College’s faculty and staff say that while they are unwilling to abandon the school’s roots in the community-college system, it’s time for the future Utah Valley University to step into a bigger academic arena, gaining valuable recognition as an institution of note.

To do that, UVSC is pushing to become a university recognized by the Stanford, Calif.-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for community engagement.

“We want our institution integrated into this community in a very profound way so that our graduates take jobs here in the community, our students serve internships in the community, and so that everything about this institution is engaged in enhancing this county and this region,” said Val Hale, vice president for institutional advancement at UVSC. To do that, UVSC has enlisted the aid of the Carnegie Foundation to get the word out.

“The mission of the institution is as it always has been: student-centered, engaged learning, with a focus on the community,” said Cameron Martin, assistant to the president at UVSC. In Martin’s opinion, it’s time UVSC got credit for what he describes as a long history of community service.

A reputation that counts The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is a nonprofit corporation chartered by an act of Congress in 1906. The Foundation does not award grants or scholarships. Instead, the foundation conducts research on the size and quality of schools across the United States.

“Institutions want to be classified in ways that capture the uniqueness of their mission,” said Amy Driscoll, associate senior scholar at the foundation. “There’s prestige in it.”

While Carnegie has never ranked colleges in order, the magazine U.S. News & World Report bases their nationally coveted rankings on Carnegie’s classifications.

U.S. News’s rankings, along with rankings published by competing publications, have been used to create what many sources see as a pyramid of educational institutions headed by a small, select group of research universities.

In attempt to scatter the pack a little, Carnegie is branching out its classifications to include more points of data and to encompass a school’s offcampus efforts.

UVSC’s administration hopes that a Carnegie classification for Community Engagement will boost the future UVU’s reputation and give its students a better chance at financial success.

“Intuitions have three major missions: teaching, research and service to the community,” said

Chun-Mei Zhao, a senior scholar with the Carnegie Foundation. “There’s currently no national approach or way to recognize that last kind of activity.”

Initially, the Carnegie Foundation tried to improve their basic classification with more-detailed descriptions of an institution’s resources and capacity.

The foundation then devised a separate, voluntary classification that would focus on an institution’s relationship with its community. It established a pilot program of 13 schools, one of which was Northern Kentucky University.

After spending several months collecting data from the pilot institutions, the Carnegie Foundation designed a documentation framework to be used by other institutions.

The classification includes three categories: Curricular Engagement includes an assessment of institutions where teaching and learning engage faculty, students and community.

The Outreach & Partnership category includes an assessment of an institution’s use of resources to benefit both the campus and community.

The third category, that of Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships, includes a recognition of institutions with commitments in both areas. UVSC is hoping to achieve this designation.

Because the classification is so new, Carnegie is taking two waves of applications, the first of which was completed in 2006, when 76 colleges and universities were successfully classified.

This year, Carnegie has issued a second-round invitation — those who didn’t make the March 1 deadline to announce their intention to apply will have to wait several years until the Carnegie Foundation again gathers data and reassesses U.S. schools. “It’s meant to be a snapshot in time,” Zhao said.

Measure of a school Because Carnegie’s classification will not again be available for application for several years, UVSC’s administration says it is giving this year’s application every possible chance at success.

Scott Hammond, assistant academic vice president at UVSC, said he and his colleague Jolene Arnoff will have invested 120 man-hours into the application by its completion.

It’s a fairly extensive process of documentation begun with an initial “framework” of questions.

Those questions, once answered, must then be backed by documentation of several concrete examples.

And what does the college get out of it?

According to the Carnegie Foundation, those schools that have achieved the classification have listed prestige, institutional identity, increased enrollment, access to grants and awards, and the acquisition of better, more-qualified faculty on their list of subsequent achievements.

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tah Valley needs schools that will turn out money-makers and public servants, people who will stimulate economic growth and intellectual change and who will establish roots in the backyard of their alma mater.

Utah Valley State College, soon to be Utah Valley University, intends to be that school.

In fact, to prove the school’s dedication to graduating students who will serve local interests, President William Sederburg is willing to spend nearly a half a million dollars a year in grant money.

In July 2007, UVSC organized the Center for Engaged Learning and charged its executive director, Jack Christianson, with providing students real-world experience while teaching them honesty and integrity. To do so, the future UVU will allocate $400,000 a year in grant money to fund faculty-supervised student projects that have a focused goal: to serve the community and involve the students in the world outside campus. The money will fund some 90 faculty- and staff-written proposals, giving each successful applicant about $2,500 to spend on everything from classroom supplies to gas money. At the end of the project, the applicant is expected to make a full accounting of how the money was spent and what the project participants accomplished.

Because UVSC is attempting to attain the Community Engagement Classification recently instituted by the nonprofit California-based organization The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the center and its grant program have taken center stage at UVSC. The ultimate goal, Christianson said, would have students from every department engaging in projects that take them off campus.

Turning out treasures One of the center’s pilot grants involved sending geology students to a fault line near Payson to collect evidence of prehistoric earthquakes.

Daniel Horns, chair of the Earth Science Department at UVSC, decided nearly two years ago to have his students complete an original research project as their capstone course.

Because the capstone course is intended to be the last thing a student does before he or she graduates, Horns said he felt that the students’ time would be better spent originating data on the Wasatch Fault near Payson.

He contacted Utah’s Geological Survey team and worked with the organization to find a likely spot where students who had signed up for a summer field experience could find evidence of geologic hazards — in this instance, an earthquake.

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the project to the point of presenting the research to meetings,” Horns said. “We’re now preparing a paper for publication.”

While the results of the soil samples taken from the trench have yet to come back from a lab based out of Golden, Colo., Horns’s students have done what it takes to put themselves on par with graduatelevel geology students across the country.

“A good indication of that,” said Horns, “came when a professor from Portland State University saw the presentation in Vegas. He assumed that the student was a higher-level graduate student.”

While such a compliment speaks highly of the students who worked with Horns, their experience is not an isolated incident.

“Everybody should get this experience,” Horns said. “But not everybody can. Certainly in most universities, the emphasis is on getting their graduate students involved in research. UVSC is much better than most in getting their undergraduates research opportunities.”

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UVSC Center for Engaged Learning Director Jack Christianson on April 30, 2008. tional Merit Program, a foundation created to support projects that enhance UVSC students’ learning environment, Horns hired a backhoe to dig a trench to cross the fault line that was 5 feet deep and 140 feet long.

Horns then wrote a grant proposal to the Center for Engaged Learning that would provide funds to pay for his students to obtain and process soil samples. Those samples would then form the basis of a graduate-level research project. The grant would also pay for Horns’ students to travel to present their research.

The Center for Engaged Learning approved the grant, and the students hit paydirt, so to speak.

Over the summer, Horns and 10 of his students investigated evidence of two prehistoric, magnitude7 quakes. They were able to collect enough samples and information that they sent students to a meeting of the Association of Engineering Geologists in Salt Lake City and a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Las Vegas. In both cases, the undergraduate UVSC students displayed their research alongside professional and graduate-level presenters.

“Without that funding, we never would have taken

In August, UVSC and Habitat for Humanity broke ground on a home in Orem. Construction-management students worked alongside members of the service organization, completing a lab project that would one day house a local family. They finished the approximately 1,200-square-foot house, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, in April and hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 28.

In this instance, the Center for Engaged learning pitched in to help pay for the building materials.

This is the first year UVSC has partnered with Habitat for Humanity, an international organization that builds or remodels homes for families in need.

Kena Mathews, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Utah County, told the Daily Herald that the project has been good for both parties. According to Mathews, the project worked out well because Habitat workers didn’t have to train the student volunteers. They came to the project packing experience.

“It actually goes more smoothly because they do have the experience or at least the classroom experience,” Mathews said.

It didn’t hurt that the students had a chance to meet face-to-face with the family for whom the house was built.

“I think it’s a good way for them to realize that people need to be helped,” Mathews said.

At this stage, departments across campus are pitching in to furnish and decorate the house. In fact, one of the rooms will be decorated by the Office of the President. Alexis Palmer, the director of the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center at UVSC, said departments have gathered cleaning supplies and

tools for home upkeep and are planning on decorating each of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rooms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reciprocity is a key element in everyone benefiting from the relationship,â&#x20AC;? Palmer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about the student whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participating in service learning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The community partner gets something out of it, as well as the student who furthers their education. In return, that partner is able to give back to the student career advice on what works and what doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

She, like so many on and off campus, points at UVSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission statement as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;whyâ&#x20AC;? behind most of the projects that come through her office.

Engaged learning â&#x20AC;&#x153;is what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving for and toward,â&#x20AC;? Palmer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really exciting to see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catching on slowly, going through every department as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to capture the vision.â&#x20AC;?

To Palmer, UVSC is not only an exciting place to work, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an exciting place to go to school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the synergy that the students will remember,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll remember the experiences that allowed them to take what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re learning

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and expand it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big deal, and a lot of people are talking about it, not just here but nationally.â&#x20AC;?

Making service count Jerry Stenquist, 25, applied for a CEL grant as member of UVSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student government. During his tenure as Student Service Council president, Stenquist said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen a lot of people who wanted to get involved but were struggling to make their efforts count.

Alexis Palmer, director of the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center at UVSC, helped Stenquist write a grant that would fund a series of training seminars and would culminate in a spring cleaning project at a park on Center Street in Orem.

The CEL grant was for $3,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enough money to pay for advertising, provide incentive items, pay a student to coordinate the coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts, feed the participants, bring in speakers from off campus and equip the students with supplies for their final service project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my work around campus, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned that a

lot of different clubs and students focus on service,â&#x20AC;?

Stenquist said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And a lot donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to get that done. The students are trying to get engaged, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never done it before.â&#x20AC;?

The Service Coalition brought students from all walks of campus to a forum where they could get training and collaborate on service-oriented projects.

As far as Stenquist could tell, the leadership at UVSC took a shine to his project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope the college takes it and runs with it.â&#x20AC;?

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they did like it. The grant that funded the Service Coalition was student-written.

It provided opportunities for students to serve one another, and it benefited the community. The grant perfectly fit the aim of community-engaged learning, Palmer said.

In fact, Palmer said it was such a good idea, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funding the Service Coalition with funds from her own budget next year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what these grants are all about,â&#x20AC;? she said.

And projects like these are why Stenquist plans to finish his degree at UVU. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to excel here,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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hough still awaiting its final physical home on campus, the Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) is a happening place.

Executive Director Jack Christianson and his staff are knee-deep in Utah Valley State College’s drive to become Utah Valley University. Their No. 1 priority, he said, is to meet the needs of the community.

Often, the center meets those needs through grant money that’s issued from an annual budget of $400,000.

Twice a year, in March and in October, faculty or staff members apply for approximately $2,500 to pay for projects that engage their students in community-centered learning projects.

However, the center’s work does not end when the funding peters out.

’Doing something’ Though students are not yet required to complete a CEL project, Christianson said that the goal is to someday require every UVU student to have a first-year and last-year experience.

“You won’t get out of here without doing something,” he said.

All of the coordination required to meet that goal runs through the Center for Engaged Learning. Christianson’s job is to make sure good ideas come to fruition.

If the center can’t approve a project because it doesn’t involve enough students or because the budget has been tapped out, the center partners staff and faculty members with grant writers.

One such project involved organ transplants. “It’s a marvelous project,” Christianson said. “But it doesn’t involve students. I told the professor, ‘We’re not accepting the proposal, but this is great.

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We’ll get you a grant for it.’ ” With the center’s help, UVSC’s wrestling team performed 14 coaching seminars across the state. Several music composition students traveled to a California recording studio to help with the score for the film “I Am Legend,” starring Will Smith. And the center helped an automotive team set land-speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Birth of a dream Wayne Hanewicz, program coordinator for the Persons of Integrity Initiative, said UVSC had begun its community-centered curriculum, before the center got its birth, by having seniors complete “capstone” or final courses before graduation.

The classes are designed to apply the students’ experiences at UVSC to a project meant to benefit Utah’s economy.

According to Mark Winget, founder and president of Dooners of America Corporation, a new family dining restaurant in Riverton, that’s exactly what he did.

“I always knew that if I could open a store in America, Americans — especially those who know what the product is — would have a chance to reunite their families around the dinner table.”

When Winget returned from serving a mission to Germany for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2002, he had one thing on his mind: to introduce America to the “doener kebab,” a large skewer of marinated meat cooked rotisserie-style.

The dream was a no-go until an investment banker from Duesseldorf, Germany, convinced Winget’s dad to go in on what the banker promised would be one of the most lucrative culinary adventures he’d ever touched.

Again, the dream got hung up on the details until Winget took Hanewicz’s technology management class. Winget’s final project put Dooners Fresh Seasoned Grille on the map. Literally.

Capitalizing on their studies in graphic design and architecture, Winget and his classmates brainstormed and drafted plans for the pilot store. Up to that point, Winget and his backers had spent five years trying to figure the logistics of the project.

When they were done, Dooners of America had 30 different drawings and sketches of the first store, including one that detailed plans for a drive-thru.

“The project put us over the edge,” Winget said. “It gave me the burst that I needed.”

Philanthropic efforts When projects go well, notoriety spreads. It didn’t take long before the Center for Engaged Learning began fielding calls from the community for help.

This year, when America’s Freedom Festival called, the center provided interns, an executive assistant and grant writers. The Provo-based foundation puts on the Fourth of July celebration “Stadium of Fire.”

When Independence High School called, the center rounded up several professors and their students to participate in Challenge Day, a three-day event where counselors from a California-based organization worked with the students to break down prejudice and foster unity.

Independence High School is an alternative school in the Provo City School District where high-risk students get their last chance at a highschool education.

“We love UVSC here,” said Rozan Holbrook, lead secretary at the high school. “The faculty and students come and embrace our kids and work well with our kids one-on-one. They have some kind of unique ability to make our kids feel like they are OK.” Which isn’t hard, said Christianson.

“They’re magnificent students. They simply haven’t learned the skills to function well in other settings.”

Independence High School principal Sarah Lloyd said she got the idea to call the center from professors who had long since jumped feet-first into her students’ lives.

UVSC Behavioral Science Professor Grant Richards and his students have been meeting with families from Provo City and Alpine School District for more than six years now, mediating contracts between parents and their children and resolving issues that keep students from successfully completing a high-school education.

More recently, UVSC Accounting Professor Steve Teeter had begun team -eaching at Independence High School alongside business teacher Eric Green.

When it became apparent that Independence High School didn’t have the materials it took to teach the class, Teeter stepped in and obtained grant

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son, executive director of the university’s Center for Engaged Learning, said. “Everything you do you’re trying to involve Continued from 47 students in. How will we accomplish our mission? We emphasize engaged learning Amy Driscoll, associate senior scholar in everything we do.” at the Carnegie Foundation, coordinates Christianson has been given charge over the classification process. According to the university’s community outreach and her, those who are successful will repreit’s his job to make sure that in the next sent all of the best practices of community five years no student will graduate from engagement across the country.

UVU without participating in some out-ofTo that end, the classification has been classroom project designed to enrich the used to help newly established universicommunity. The center is issuing grants ties organize community outreach efforts. to fund faculty- and staff-directed projects Three or four institutions are submitting that involve students in the community. the data that they collected for Carnegie to Christianson has also worked with detheir accreditation board. partments across campus to develop cap“It’s a really good idea,” Driscoll stone courses — classes in which said. “We’re happy about that. graduating students take We Campuses collect a lot of what they’ve learned into a data that never gets used, have access community forum. that is almost immedito tremendous re“We want students ately shelved.” here to graduate with UVSC got insources that can benan education and a révolved in the efit the region instead sumé,” Martin said. program after its Martin said that of sucking it all into this president, William means growing Sederburg, attended vacuum of a classroom. existing companies, a meeting of the launching new comThe classroom is our American Associapanies and capitalizing tion of State Colleges community. on new ideas. It also and Universities in means sending students — Cameron Martin which Northern Keninto a nonprofit organizaassistant to the president tucky University laid out tion and finding ways to its successes with commugive back. This year UVSC is nity engagement. partnering with Habitat for HumanJames Vortruba, president of ity to build a home for a family in Orem.

NKU, is one of Sederburg’s longtime The school has also participated in Amerifriends. He was more than willing to illusca’s Freedom Festival in Provo. trate how the Carnegie classification had “They ask for laborers, and we organize helped those who have already qualified. students who can donate time and talents “Public engagement is part of our misto the project,” Martin said. “We have sion statement,” said Carole A. Beere, access to tremendous resources that can NKU’s former associate provost for outbenefit the region instead of sucking it all reach and dean of graduate studies. “It’s into this vacuum of a classroom. The classpart of our core values. We believe that room is our community. We’re pushing it we have an obligation to serve our region back out.” to help the region grow and develop. We UVSC is expanding its recruitment efbelieve that involving our students in this forts, reaching across age, culture and work helps them to develop more of a academic lines to find students who will responsibility for their community. It is help build the university’s goal for engaged quite basic to what we do and how we see learning. And while there’s nothing official ourselves.” yet, Christianson mentioned that it’s likely After several discussions with communithat in coming years, professors who want ty representatives and academic advisors, to achieve tenure may have to demonstrate UVSC’s administration decided that the an ability to keep on top of their scholarship school’s historic challenge to serve Utah and prove a commitment to the community.

Valley deserved to be recognized. They did “This is pretty low-hanging fruit for so primarily because UVSC stands by the us,” Hammond said. “We’re already doing fact that many of the programs and teachwhat it takes to qualify. Other institutions ing methods recognized by Carnegie’s clashave to go out and build and think through sification have been in place for years. this. We’re already doing so much of this ”It’s a whole mindset,” Jack R. Christianthat it’s a matter of documenting it.”

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UVSC’s community engagement touches younger valley residents.

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Community Continued from 46 the materials it took to teach the class, Teeter stepped in and obtained grant money to pay for access codes to an online textbook.

According to Green, things went so well that Teeter has been asked to return next year as well.

“Our kids love to have UVSC students come,” Lloyd said. “Our students need someone to really hold their hands. I always say when UVSC students come here, ‘I want you to pull them over to UVSC. Literally, just feel yourself getting a hold of them and taking them.’ ”

Across cultural lines CEL grants help more than highschool students. In fact, some CEL money has been used to assist Utah’s burgeoning Hispanic community.

UVSC’s Latinos Unidos Mentoring Program has used CEL money for community outreach. Kyle Reyes, UVSC’s Hispanic/Latino outreach coordinator, proposed that the center pay for multicultural students to take a message of hope to the local school districts. They are “giving students greater access by providing them with cultural role models and giving them information about college in culturally relevant ways,” said Reyes.

It seems that sometimes the content of the message means less than the messenger who conveys it.

Reyes points to 3,700 Hispanic students in Provo School District, many of whom aren’t making the decisions that are key to pursuing an education after high school.

“How do we reach those students?” Reyes asked. “Right now, were assuming that their teachers

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are not from their culture. They have good hearts, but they’re teaching and educating in traditional ways and expecting the students to grab onto knowledge delivered in a means that they’re not used to.”

Since September 2007, Latinos Unidos mentors have visited 1,200 students in 17 schools, have met with families in their homes and have hosted three parent nights, with 230 parents in attendance. Through the program, UVSC has also built partnerships with six elementary schools.

“We’re there every week, tutoring, mentoring — playing in the playground,” Reyes said.

UVSC student mentor Yazmin Montero, 23, works with Latinos Unidos and has seen its positive effect. “Some of these kids have a really hard time with their parents and struggle with a language barrier,” she said. “They have no idea that they have access to financial aid and scholarships. They have questions about going to college that we could resolve.”

Montero is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in secondary education with an emphasis in Spanish and has two years left to graduation.

She’s going to finish her bachelor’s degree at UVU, mostly because her first-year experiences at UVSC have given her a sense of purpose that she had missed elsewhere.

Her initial approach to UVSC was as an in-between school. “I was going to finish my associate’s degree and transfer somewhere else, but this past year I found that I really like it. I plan to stay and graduate.”

She said that as she has shared her experiences with other students, she’s found there is a pervasive feeling: It’s “not that we got stuck here,” she said.

“But that we feel that it’s where we were supposed to be, it’s where we want to finish, and it’s here that we’ll make a difference.”

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o build some of its most important connections to the community, Utah Valley State College long ago turned its focus on the elementary, middle, junior-high and high schools in its service area.

Some of the school’s connections to local school districts happen at the behest of state leaders, some are made through UVSC’s Center for Engaged Learning, and some arise from relationships that students and faculty have fostered in the community as they have sought out ways to serve.

Cameron Martin, assistant to the president at UVSC, points to any one of those partnerships and says, “Our role is student-centered, engaged learning and community outreach.”

State-issued results In May 2007, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. appointed seven public school district superintendents to serve as voting members of the Utah State Board of Regents, an organization whose mission is to ensure excellence in the state’s institutions of higher education. He also assigned each of them to sit on their college’s board of trustees. Terry Shoemaker, superintendent of the Wasatch County School District, now sits on UVSC’s board of trustees.

The plan was to smooth Utah students’ transition into college. According to state figures, too many students are unprepared to take college entrance exams or enter the university setting.

“We also have in our state too many people not finishing college and university degrees,” Shoemaker said.

For UVSC, the K-16 Alliance — the name Gov. Huntsman gave his initiative to better connect high schools with institutions of higher learning — merely strengthened ties that community leaders say were formed long ago.

“We’ve always had a good relationship with UVSC,” Provo City School District Superintendent Randall J. Merrill said.

Much of that relationship happened as faculty from both sides sought help on projects that involved their students.

This was especially true of students from UVSC’s education program, who complete their student teaching in classrooms throughout the district.

However, in response to Gov. Huntsman’s goal to institute a partnership between school districts and their local university, UVSC President William Sederburg has instituted a K-16 Alliance of his own. In an initiative that draws on the school district superintendents in his service region, Sederburg has formed an advisory committee designed to smooth communications and transitions from high school to UVSC. “Now we’re working on executive, broader, long-range planning,” Merrill said. “In essence, they help us with our issues, and we help them with theirs.”

Product of determination UVSC’s most basic connection to high schools in its service region has long been its concurrent-enrollment program. Those students who choose to enroll take tuition-free, college-level courses for high-school and college credit. The classes are taught at the high school by UVSC-approved high-school instructors.

For those struggling to make the jump from high school, UVSC initiated Gear-Up in 1991 as a partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, the school districts in its service region and two community-based programs. GearUp granted families access to career assessments, academic counseling, tutoring, career training, library and research training and summer programs.

On a broader level, Jill Danley, director of UVSC’s Prospective Student Services Department, said her staff is actively involved in Utah Council, a statewide, multi-university tour in which administrators travel to every Utah high school, helping seniors apply to college.

To keep school counselors in the loop, UVSC invites them to a retreat twice a year. The school also hosts several department-specific events to help incoming students familiarize themselves with the majors in which they are interested.

On a structural level, UVSC is

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“It is such a compelling space,” said Cameron Martin, assistant to the president for institutional development.

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hanging from a state college to a university is not simply a matter of semantics.

“You can’t just say you are a university and be one,” said Michael Freeman, the Utah Valley State College librarian. “You have to have a certain standard in place, and one of the standards was that we needed to build an adequate library.”

After 24 months of construction and three trips to the Utah State Legislature to secure more than $46 million in funding, the library for the soon-to-be Utah Valley University opens for campus and public use July 1.

Campus directors fought hard for the building that they believe will do more to enhance the academic feel of campus than any other project to date, said Cameron Martin, assistant to the president for institutional development and planning.

“It is such a compelling space,” Martin said. “It is open and vibrant. It is academic. It is inviting. It is conducive to learning.”

The 190,000-square-foot building has five flights filled with classrooms, computers, study rooms, academic journals, DVDs and, of course, books. The building has twice the amount of space for book shelves as the old building — with room to grow. But it also has several hundred square feet for students to congregate, research, study and even relax, Freeman said.

“That is one of the main advantages to this new library,” said Tim Rowley, a library assistant director.

“It is going to be some of the best student space on campus. It will be an amazing space for them to be in, and it will be a place people will want to be.”

And while the new building has several of the standard amenities, it also has a few less-common perks, including mini movie theaters, a family-friendly research room, a café and a nondenominational student meditation space.

The library is open for both campus and public use, and members of the community will be able to pay a yearly fee of $20 to check out books and media.

Planning for the new building started shortly after President William Sederburg’s arrival to campus in June 2003. The president had just left a school in Michigan where he oversaw the construction of a new library, and he was ready “to hit the ground running again when he got here,” Rowley said.

The architects were Alspector Architecture and

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A hanging art piece on the first floor of the Digital Learning Center at Utah Valley State College.

Cooper Roberts Simonsen and Associates, and the building was completed by Layton Construction. The project cost a total $48 million with $46.75 million coming from the state and the final $1.25 million coming from private funds.

Frequent visitors to campus will notice that the new library has a very different look and feel than the architecture throughout the rest of campus.

It is connected to the rest of the campus, just like all of other buildings, on the north end of the Liberal Arts Building, but the similarities stop there.

The new library is filled with open space and large windows, and its walls are painted with light shades of blue, green, red and beige.

In contrast, the bright color scheme for the rest of the school is prominently displayed on rainbow painted pipes that travel on the ceiling from the Gunther

Technology Building all the way down to the Liberal Arts Building.

These classic colored pipes and the look of unfinished ceilings continue from the Liberal Arts Building up the indoor walkway to the library but end just before the new building begins.

Rowley said Sederburg made it clear that the new library should have its own look so that is can act as a bridge to the future of the school with a design that would represent change and transition as a whole.

“This is different,” Rowley said. “This is not your dad’s UVSC building. Look at this wood and these colors. That was all President Sederburg’s doing.”

Although the new building is smaller than the libraries at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah and Utah State University, the difference in size alone between the old and new UVSC libraries is still huge.

The old library was designed to house a small book collection for a junior college. It had only four group-study rooms, while the new library has 35.

“The old one was very small,” Freeman said. “We were working with a community college library, and we had to ask ourselves, ‘What will it take to obtain a university status?’ ” Rowley said the student body outgrew the old library about five years ago, and the students and library staff have been operating in a compressed space with no room to branch out.

“Every time we added more book shelves, we had to take up student study space,” he said. “And every time we had new computers, we were looking for any nook and cranny to put them. The new library is the answer to all that.”

The new library doesn’t just have room for more books and computers.

Media librarian Christy Donaldson said she was given the funding to expand the library’s collection of videos and DVDs by more than 1,300 items this year in preparation for the move to the new building.

The media collection will be open to be checked out of the library or watched within the library walls at viewing stations and in film-screening rooms, she said.

The new library was turned over to UVSC employees during the first week of June so librarians could move the collections and put the final touches on the building. For now the signs on the new building will read only “Library,” but Freeman said school officials are waiting for a donor to come along whose name can go on the sign and give the library a proper identity.

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The first floor of the library is intended to be an inviting space that smashes old myths about not eating or talking in the library. Patrons can purchase food and drinks inside or outside of the library security gates and use any of the dozens of tables and sitting areas in the entranceway or in the actual information commons to eat, study and socialize.

At press time, UVSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Digital Media Center had not been fully furnished. It will, however, be available to tour starting June 30.

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family-friendly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got movie theaters and fresh juice.

The new library at the soon-to-be Utah Valley University is filled with features and attractions that are geared to rope in both students and local residents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first two floors are really the public floors,â&#x20AC;? said Michael Freeman, the Utah Valley State College librarian. They hold a cafĂŠ, sitting areas, dozens of public computers, the checkout desk and thousands of DVDs that are free for both viewing in the library and checking out to watch at home.

All the first-floor entrances bring guests straight to the cafĂŠ, which is the newest and most creative feature of the library. The decision to include food services in the new building was a popular one among the librarians and designers, Freeman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is actually a trend in libraries around the country,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The old idea of not eating or drinking in the library is sort of fading out. It is not that practical when you think about what happens to books when they get checked out.â&#x20AC;?

The cafĂŠ will serve sandwiches, bottled juices and lots of Starbucks coffee, said Val Brown, director of dining services on campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope that the aroma from the coffee goes and

permeates the whole two floors of the rotunda in that main part of the library,â&#x20AC;? Brown said. And another main goal of the cafĂŠ is to be environmentally friendly as the entire building was designed to be, he said.

Just past the cafĂŠ is an information commons that is a combination of a reference area and a huge computer lab. Freeman expects that students will come to the information commons with a class assignment and from there be guided on the entire homework, research or project process by reference librarians.

For those students who are often uncomfortable visiting the quiet reference area of a library because they have their children in tow, Freeman said the new library has a solution for them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just past the information commons we have a family-friendly computer lab,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got beanbag chairs, computers with kid software, and DVD players so students with families can also get their work done.â&#x20AC;?

Assistant Director Tim Rowley said the library is designed to make people of all levels of library experience feel comfortable and welcome. Each floor is equipped with touch-screen computers that people can use to get information about what they need in the library. Free printers are available to print what people find in their search so they can more easily find the books or departments.

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Rowley said he and his co-workers think of the new facility as one-stop shopping for student work, and services like the writing lab are combined with the information commons, the book stacks and a new printing center to help students with every step of the process.

A printing lab in the library will be staffed with assistants who are trained in various media and design software so they can help students and other guests work out the common problems they run into when they print posters, books and other projects, said David Scott from printing services.

This media printing lab will be almost fully funded by the school administration, which will bring costs way down for patrons, Scott said.

Another hot public feature of the library is the set of viewing rooms on the second floor that provide groups of students a place to watch movies. In the old library, students had to squeeze some chairs around a 12-inch TV to watch something for class, but media librarian Christy Donaldson said those days are over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have space for small group viewing,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got flat screens. It is all a big improvement.â&#x20AC;?

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UVU to focus on teaching, community in years to come.

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tah Valley State College will soon realize its longtime goal of becoming a university, and while that’s cause for celebration, administrators are hardly taking time off to relax.

Rather, they’re already working on goals for the future to ensure the university maintains its essential role in the community, says UVSC President William A. Sederburg.

“This school is going to be central to the future of this valley,” Sederburg said.

For the next five to 10 years, school officials and faculty members will be focused on attaining classification as a community-engaged university (Read more about that quest in the “Engaged Learning” section on page 46).

While that categorization is the school’s main focus, administrators have developed an acronym to guide everyone through the immediate change and into the future: STORC. The S represents keeping the school’s student focus; T represents the school being teaching-intensive; O stands for opportunity; R means the region and C stands for collaboration.

The first letter, S, is meaningful because as a state school, the future UVU will center on students as UVSC did in the past, said Val Hale, vice president for external affairs at UVSC. “Our focus on the student will not change,” Hale said. “That is what our trademark is, that’s what we’re known for.”

In order to better serve students in the future, the university has added more advisors and employees to enhance campus life.

“We’re starting to see a lot more focus around departmental life,” Sederburg said. “I think that as we go to a university you’ll see a lot more of those traditional campus behaviors.

We really want to create a university experience. That’ll be an interesting

challenge” In the past, many students took classes at UVSC but involved themselves with the campus life that surrounds nearby Brigham Young University, Sederburg said. BYU has since tightened housing requirements for its students, pushing UVSC’s students closer to the school’s Orem campus.

UVSC officials hope the development of new student-oriented programs will encourage students to spend even more time on campus.

“We’ve begun to add different kinds of programming designed to create opportunities for students to engage in avocations while they’re here in addition to their vocations,” said Cory Duckworth, vice president of student services.

Hopefully, Duckworth says, the new programming will help students develop group identities. Administrators also plan to hire resident engagement coordinators in the future who will provide services similar to that of a resident assistant but at privately owned housing developments.

“We hope to enhance our studentlife programming so that students who come here will have the opportunity to have the whole student-life experience while they’re here,” Duckworth said The second letter of the acronym, T, stands to dispel the belief that UVSC will completely transform its educational approach once it becomes a university.

“UVU will be teaching intensive,” Sederburg said. “T means, when we hire people, we hire teachers and not researchers. This will not be a research university.”

As a requirement of seeking university status, UVSC has reduced its reliance on adjunct faculty and hired more full-time faculty.

“In the past, 54 or 55 percent of classes were taught by adjuncts. Now it’s to 47 percent,” Hale said. “It’s just really helped increase the quality and

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Even more faculty will be hired in the future to keep the soon-tobe university teaching-intensive.

Also, UVSC’s small class sizes will stay the same — partly because there isn’t any room to expand on the crowded campus, Hale said.

The third letter of the acronym, O, refers to opportunity — both for the university and for its present and future students.

“There will soon be 1 million people in the valley and we’ve got to be flexible in how we try to meet their needs,” Sederburg said.

In order to stay flexible, the school plans to keep its open enrollment policy, with a few future changes.

“What we’re calling it now is open admissions and structured enrollment,” Duckworth said. “No one will be excluded from participating, but in order to enroll we need students to go through some diagnostic things to make sure we place them in the courses where they can build a track record of success.”

The next letter of the acronym, R, stands for the region. After all,

the region is the reason Utah Valley University will exist.

“We need to serve the needs of the region and really not try to be a statewide institution or a national one but try to keep track of the regional needs,” Sederburg said.

Being a regional institution is all about being comprehensive.

The university doesn’t want to become well-known for a handful of programs. Rather, Sederburg said, administrators hope the school develops a wide range of quality programming and is known for its breadth.

The last letter, C, denotes the collaboration that is needed for all of these changes to take place.

The goals will have to be accepted and internalized across departments and across campus in order to become a reality.

From the Board of Trustees to the Board of Regents and from President Sederburg down to the newest faculty member, everyone needs to be on board for the future, said Janette Hales Beckman, chairman of the UVSC Board of Trustees.

“At this point, it’s kind of like being on a fast-moving train, in a way, trying to make sure that you’re holding on to everything of value,” Beckman said. “And I think they are.”

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Future goals However involved UVSC gets in encouraging students to make the jump to university life, the impetus has to start early and it will take more than a few meetings, said Shoemaker.

“What we want to do is to prepare them better for arriving at the institution so that their experience there is such that they can move forward in a more efficient way to finishing their degrees,” Shoemaker said.

To answer that concern, UVSC professors have extended their schedules to include time spent in local schools and working with individual families.

Professors from several departments, including the schools of robotics, accounting, education and English, have designed projects and learning opportunities that have taken UVSC’s resources to the students coming up.

As one example, Merrill offered a mentoring program currently flourishing in the Provo School District. Merrill had mentioned to Sederburg that Provo City School District doesn’t have enough Hispanic teachers who can act as mentors and leaders for the growing number of Hispanic students in Utah Valley.

Merrill and Sederberg — who are golfing buddies — mulled over the problem on the green, generating ideas on how a partnership between UVSC and the district might occur.

“He then turned it over to his staff and they ran with it,” Merrill said.

Today, 25 seniors in the Provo School District and several juniors have begun coursework that will guide them into UVSC’s education department as future teachers. The first students should enter UVU this fall.

The partnership, titled Hispanic Educators of Tomorrow, has been a “smashing success,” Merrill said.

“In three or four years, we’ll have our first batch of home-grown Latino educators available to start teaching and becoming leaders and administrators,” he said.

Shoemaker said UVSC will also pre-

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pare quality employees and citizens of our state.

“As UVSC has grown, there’s been a significant increase in the amount of businesses and individuals that are willing and want to participate with the institution and give back in ways that affect the community,” he said. “That’s another indicator that the institute is moving in the right direction.”

Student success The goal must always be student success, said Curtis Welborn, an assistant professor in the Computer and Networking Sciences Department at UVSC. School was neither fun nor easy as a kid, Welborn said, and it wasn’t until later in his collegiate career — when he finally discovered the world of computer technology — that learning became fun.

Two post-graduate degrees later, Welborn is pushing to have teachers in the local school districts teach math and science with the end-goal in mind.

At Amelia Earhart Elementary School, Welborn uses Lego Mindstorms, a line of Lego sets that combine programmable bricks with electric motors and sensors to teach math and science principles.

“Students are afraid of the math and the science classes that they’ve heard they’ll have to take,” he said.

If you can get kids interested in the work, he said, they’ll find that you don’t have to be a genius to succeed.

Welborn has also worked at Timpview High School in north Provo with computer teacher Gary Ashton, teaching students in the Java II programming class.

In May, students from several high schools participated in a challenge that tested the abilities of student-built robots. “If we’re going to get more students to enter the world of computer science and engineering, we need to integrate the skills earlier on,” he said.

This summer Welborn is working on a grant proposal for UVSC’s Center for Engaged Learning that would train students from UVSC’s Department of Education to use computer and engineering technology to teach lessons in math and science. The grant would pay for things like the Mindstorms robots that connect students with practical uses for their math and science lessons.

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Natalie Hollingshead Herald correspondent

n April 2009, some 3,000-plus students will make history as the first graduating class of Utah Valley University.

Although the graduates won’t be the first to carry diplomas bearing the UVU name — all prior graduates can order a diploma beginning July 1 — the class will be the first to receive those papers in tassels and robes. But will the graduates be older, more experienced or more internationally diverse than their predecessors at the state school? Not likely, said Cory Duckworth, vice president for student affairs and strategic planning at UVSC. “I would not anticipate an immediate shift in the nature of our students,” Duckworth said. “The Utah Valley University student has actually been in the process of being molded over the past few years.”

From a demographic standpoint, the class of 2009 will likely be fairly similar to those who graduated in the 2007-2008 academic year.

The real transformation in graduating classes will come when the university graduates its inaugural master’s degree students in approximately two years, said Margaret Bellon, director of graduation and transfer services.

“That will be a change, because most of these master’s candidates are those that have been working already,” Bellon said. “They’re older and more experienced.”

UVU’s 2009 graduating class not likely to be dramatically different, say officials

According to Andrea Brown, assistant director of institutional research for UVSC, the last class of UVSC graduates included approximately 3,300 students with an average age of 26.9 years.

One reason UVU won’t see an immediate shift in undergraduates is because the switch to university status hasn’t been abrupt, Duckworth said. Changes began when UVSC started offering four-year programs 15 years ago. At that time, Duckworth said, “the nature of our students started to change.” Since then, the college has been steadily adding more fouryear programs and, consequently, more students with staying power.

“We are seeing more students who are committed to a specific direction to their life,” Duckworth said. “We have also seen more students come now expressly intending to stay. We see less transfer students and quite a few students that transfer to us from schools like the U of U and BYU.” As the university grows its reputation, administrators are optimistic the student body — and consequent graduating classes — will continue to evolve. Three years ago, administrators developed a comprehensive recruitment plan that includes marketing across and outside the state. In Utah, recruitment efforts are focused on women, Hispanics and Americans Indians, three groups whose enrollment numbers at UVSC are at odds with community averages, said Michelle Taylor, associate vice-president for student services.

“We want to be reflective of the community de-

mographics and right now there is a disparity with those three groups,” said Taylor, who manages enrollment services. In the 2007-08 graduating class, graduates were 56 percent male and 44 percent female. Far fewer women then men attend the institution, a trend that bucks the national norm.

Right now, Taylor and her task force are researching female enrollment at UVSC. The results of the research will help the school develop an aggressive communication and marketing plan for females in Utah County, and perhaps shift the male-female ratio closer to 50/50, she said.

“We are trying to find out where our young women are going when they’re graduating from high school and why they aren’t choosing UVSC,” Taylor said. “We want to discover the changes we need to make in order for them to see us as a top choice.”

The school is also trying to build ties with the Hispanic and American Indian populations in the area and has hired employees whose responsibility is to reach out to those minority groups.

With the most recent graduating class, more than 85 percent of graduates class identified themselves as Caucasian, with 3.2 percent Hispanic, 2 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, 0.8 percent American Indian and 5 percent unspecified. Currently, Hispanics make up approximately 15 percent of the area’s population, Taylor estimated. “We would like to match community statistics so that we’re graduating and we’re recruiting the same amount of students that are reflective of the community,” Taylor said.

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he change from Utah Valley State College to Utah Valley University isn’t just semantics. With the institution’s new name come a handful of privileges and responsibilities — including the ability to offer advanced degrees, an addition UVSC President William Sederburg says is paramount. “You can always change the name, but we want the change to be authentic,” Sederburg said.

“In Utah, being a university means the ability to offer a master’s degree, and that is important for this region.”

The Utah State Board of Regents approved the Master of Education program on March 21, and admissions are currently being accepted for Fall Semester 2008.

Two additional master’s degree programs are slated for the near future: a Master of Science in nursing and a Master of Business Administration.

Although the Utah State Board of Regents has given an initial acknowledgement of regional need, the programs still have to undergo the official approval process, said David L. Buhler, interim commissioner of higher education for the Utah State Board of Regents.

“We’re starting with the highest-demand master’s in education that the Board of Regents approved at their last meeting and we’ll be looking carefully at the rest,” Buhler said. “For the university to have a handful of high-demand master’s degrees makes a lot of sense.”

Administrators are also expanding undergraduate degrees to meet enrollment increases. The school expects to have as many as 32,000 students by 2018, based on the number of third-grade students in the service area and the proportion of local students who traditionally choose UVSC, Hitch says. And those numbers may keep increasing.

“We’ve already noticed in our recruiting efforts that people are resonating more with the fact that they can get a university degree here,” said Cory Duckworth, vice president of student services. “Our applications for scholarships are up, [and] our applications for admissions are up. We’ve already seen a four-percent increase for last year.”

Currently, the school offers 57 bachelor’s degrees, 39 associate degrees, 96 emphases, six diploma programs and 15 one-year certificate programs, Hitch says. More than 25 of those bachelor’s degrees have

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Students hang out in The Quad at UVSC on June 3. UVSC’s administration say applications for scholarships and admissions are up, with a four-percent increase over 2007. come in the last four years.

“There is a lot of access to education there when you think about it, and we’ll continue to grow programs that are appropriate for our students,” Hitch said. “We have a fairly significant list of programs planned, but not all of those will go through.”

In the last 12 months, many of the school’s targeted programs have been approved, including an Associate of Applied Science in general technology and construction management, a bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene and the aforementioned master’s degree in education.

The school has 20 more programs proposed for the next 13 to 36 months, although Hitch says many of the programs are being “very loosely” considered.

Among the contenders are a veterinary technology

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program, Bachelor of Arts in art education, Bachelor of Arts and Science in environmental studies, bachelor’s degrees in French and French education, a bachelor’s in culinary arts and more.

“Some of these we would definitely need faculty resources to do, so it’s a pretty loose list,” Hitch says.

Although the institution is pursing a wide range of programming for the future, there are no plans to offer or seek any doctorate programs at the school.

In Utah, only Type I institutions like the University of Utah and Utah State University can offer doctorate degree programs. Utah Valley University will be a Type II institution. However, as is current practice, Utah State University may offer doctorate degree programs at UVU facilities, Hitch said.

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Craig Lindsey Age: 34 Degree: Business management with an emphasis in hospitality management.

Hometown: Waianae, Hawaii Class Standing: Just graduated DH: Tell us a little about yourself.

Lindsey: I grew up in Hawaii playing volleyball in the sand and surfing and doing a bunch of outdoor activities.

I’m the oldest of three boys, and me and my family are really close ... I’m half Hawaiian and half Caucasian, so I have some Hawaiian history and culture that was taught to me early in my life. I enjoy my heritage very much. My family kind of lived up here a long, long time ago.

I enjoy being around people, and that’s the reason why I chose hospitality as an emphasis and a major.

I’ve been married for 10 years now. I have a girl who’s 2 years old and my son is 7. Trying to get through school and

have a family was a challenging experience, but it helped out in my studies. My wife is also a student at UVSC. She’s in the nursing program, and she will graduate in ’09. I served an LDS Church mission in the Phillipines, so I also speak Tagolog.

I’ve worked for the Marriott for almost four years now and have worked in other hospitality businesses. My dad and I loved to talk about different countries and cultures and people, so my love is for other people and other cultures.

DH: What brought you to UVSC? Lindsey: One, it’s a lot cheaper out here in Utah than in Hawaii. Two, I needed to get away from the beautiful distractions of Hawaii. I grew up surfing and being in the water, and I was neglecting my studies out at BYU-Hawaii. I enjoy the Utah Valley area. I was just going to come up and see how I liked it.

DH: How would you describe your UVSC experience?

Lindsey: I enjoyed it because it is a commuter campus ... you don’t have students being on campus all the time.

So I really had to push myself to get to be a part of that school spirit. It wasn’t really until I joined clubs and different honors societies on campus that I really started to get involved. Not until then did I realize that the campus can be a great asset to its students — not until my junior and senior years did I realize that.

I have to say that I really enjoyed UVSC

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DH: What are some of the ways the change to university status will affect you?

Lindsey: The Woodbury School of Business is accredited, plus with the opportunity to have on my diploma university status, the change will probably have an impact in the future when I apply for jobs. Seeing a lot of the hard work done by my professors really makes me feel good to graduate from a university.

When I moved to Utah and transferred to UVSC, I really saw it as kind of a commuter campus, and maybe it wasn’t really as respected. I’ve really seen that change. I’ll be able to say, “I graduated from Utah Valley University.”

DH: How do you think the change to UVU will affect other students?

Lindsey: I’m hoping that with the new, big resource center — that library that they just completed and will open in June — that students will stay on campus other than just coming to go to class. I hope they feel the experience of taking advantage of what’s on campus.

Also, the athletic program at UVSC: I wish that in the future … the culture of UVU will be strong that students will enjoy and stay on campus a lot longer, rather than just coming to class.

DH: What would you recommend for students to get the most out of their UVU experience?

Lindsey: I would say the networking between students and professors. Since we’re just starting off becoming UVU, we don’t really have a huge network of people that you can call on and count on in the business world. I think for students right now, they need to be a part of clubs and get involved with the honors societies. That way, you make friends, and they’ll be your contacts even after school. The biggest thing is to network early within the school, with all the resources, with professors and with colleagues and with classmates and stuff like that. I really like the variety of people on campus — the nationalities that you see all over campus and the clubs that you see. I also was a part of the multicultural center; the minorities can go there and feel accepted. Really, I had a good experience.

DH: How do you think the change to university status will affect scholarships in the community?

Lindsey: Just having another university within minutes from another major university says something about the people and the students in the valley — how goal-oriented and how aggressive some of our young people are. It has to do a lot with parents and civic leaders or church leaders within Utah County that are so instrumental in the futures of people here. Having another university is a great asset for the county.

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rowing up can be hard to do — especially when it comes quickly. Just ask administrators at the soon-to-be Utah Valley University, where growing pains stem from a lack of available office and classroom space.

“We have to hire a bunch of new faculty, and finding space to put all of those faculty is a challenge,” said Val Hale, vice president of institutional advancement for Utah Valley State College. “Anytime you grow that quickly there are pains associated with that.”

Dozens of faculty have been hired in the past year to meet requirements for the switch to university status, which limits the number of adjunct faculty the institution may use. Space was at a premium before those hires, so finding spots for faculty offices has been quite a task, Hale said.

“We’re taking advantage of every closet we can find across campus, every nook and cranny that we can find, we’re going to put a desk in that,” Hale said.

“We’re in a really tough spot, space-wise.”

However, some temporary relief is on the way.

The Digital Learning Center, opening July 1, will add approximately 190,000 square feet to the physical facilities on campus. Although the new building will relieve some of the space crunch, it won’t solve all of university’s space issues — it simply wasn’t designed with that goal in mind, says Frank Young, space development director at UVSC. “It’s not the main purpose of the library, but there are some spaces in there if we need to use them,” Young said.

Administrators say a major help would be a proposed 140,000-square-foot addition to the science building. But it may be a while before the school gets approval to build from the state.

“We have these new four-year degrees that have come online for science, and they need new lab space in order to teach those classes like they’d like to,” said Jim Michaelis, associate vice president of facilities for UVSC. “The only thing holding us back is funding.”

Like all buildings constructed at the state school, approval has to be granted by the Utah State Board of Regents. After gaining board approval, the project is prioritized among other requests from all nine institutions in the state. Then, the proposal is sent to the state

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Administrators say a major help would be a proposed 140,000-square-foot addition to the science building. But it may be a while before the school gets approval to build from the state. legislature, where representatives vote on whether or not they want to fund the project.

The institution’s request for a science addition has been in front of the legislature for three years, but it has yet to be funded, Michaelis said. “It’s just not high enough on the priority list for them yet,” Michaelis said. “It is disappointing, but we understand that there are other demands on the state funds.”

Until that approval, administrators will have to cross their fingers and wait. Or, they can hope for private donations. “If you have private funding, you can move up the priority list,” Young said.

In the meantime, administrators have developed a wish list for campus buildings. The list includes a performing arts building, a business building and a

student classroom building. After those projects are complete, administrators hope to buy land in the north and south ends of Utah County for future satellite campuses. Of course, that wish list will evolve with the school, with projects moving up and down the list depending on need. For example, a parking structure isn’t a main concern on campus now, but as it becomes “more and more of a problem, it will move up the priority list,” said Young, who says administrators hope many future UVU students take advantage of mass-transit systems in the area.

“Right now there is actually some capacity in the lots,” Young said. “Some of it’s a little further out and people don’t like to walk but it’s out there. It gets tight to find a spot sometimes but the space is there.

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Krysta Boyle Age: 22 Major: English Hometown: St. George, Utah Class Standing: Junior DH: Tell us a little about yourself.

Boyle: I really like theory, learning literary theories in English. I like reading about the philosophers. As far as outside of school, I like to do crazy stuff when I

get the opportunity. I like hiking, rock climbing, cliff jumping, wakeboarding.

Eventually, I want to be a high school English teacher. I really relate to that age group, I guess. By nature, I think I just really love teaching; I want to be everyone’s favorite teacher. I’d like to teach in Utah.

DH: What brought you to UVSC? Boyle: My mom moved to Provo, and she told me that it would be a great place to study, and also that the social life was great.

I transferred here from Dixie; it was easy to transfer within colleges in Utah, and a lot of my friends moved here, too. UVSC took my credits from Dixie without any trouble, without any hassle.

DH: How would you describe your UVSC experience thus far?

Boyle: Awesome. I think it’s been great. I really dig UVSC. All my teachers have been really, really good. I couldn’t say that about some other schools. I’ve studied really hard and learned a lot of difficult stuff.

Obviously, I’m into upper-division courses, so of course it’s going to be harder, but academically I think it’s really good. I think it’s really cool how helpful UVSC is. It’s so easy to get help — in the writing lab, in the computer lab. There’s a lot of resources on the college. Help is really easily accessible on the campus.

DH: How is university status affecting you?

Boyle: I think it makes me more qualified in the job field, because if I’ve graduated from a university, that’s obviously going to score me more points than graduating from a state college or a com-

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