November 22, 2006
For Immediate Release
UVSC’s Wasatch Campus Moving Forward
Two weeks following a change in the leadership core at UVSC’s Wasatch Campus in Heber City, the Campus is moving forward as planned.
Kimberly Beck, who was serving as associate dean of community development at the Wasatch Campus, has accepted a position to work in UVSC’s Advancement Office and will assume fundraising duties for Wasatch and Summit Counties and UVSC’s School of Education. The new appointment will take effect next week.
“I’m excited about this new assignment,” said Beck. “I look forward to continuing to work with many of the same people in the areas of Wasatch and Summit Counties and to be taking on additional fundraising responsibilities for that area of the state. In addition, I’m thrilled about the opportunity to raise funds in the area of education. I’m an educator at heart. Raising funds for education is a fun proposition, particularly in Utah, where people feel so passionately about educating their kids and about developing teachers to teach their kids.”
“Kimberly has established a lot of relationships in Wasatch County,” said Val Hale, UVSC vice president of institutional advancement and marketing. “We’re excited to have her continue working with the people she knows so well in that area. We likewise believe she can help the School of Education make significant strides in the area of fundraising.”
As is standard procedure with a change of leadership of this nature, an exit audit has been conducted over the course of the past two weeks at the Wasatch Campus.
“This was a traditional exit audit as part of an administrative restructuring,” said UVSC President William A. Sederburg. “One of the goals of the audit is to provide the future Wasatch Campus administration with an analysis and recommendations. As we had anticipated going in, the audit came back with no sign of any irregularities, financial or otherwise. We remain grateful to both JD Davidson and Kimberly for their service in helping get the Wasatch Campus off the ground, and we look forward to their continued service on the UVSC campus.”
Davidson, who, as dean, launched the Wasatch Campus in October 2003, is a tenured faculty member at UVSC and will likely return to the classroom to teach English and literature where he has spent much of his career at UVSC, which began in 1972.
With regard to the future administrative structure on the Wasatch Campus, that is still being assessed and evaluated by Cory Duckworth, UVSC vice president of student affairs, who is currently serving as interim administrator of the Wasatch Campus.
“This is a campus that has enormous potential,” said Duckworth. “It’s a campus that will continue to grow and explore new opportunities for community service. What we’re trying to determine currently is the ideal administrative structure that will best serve the campus and the Wasatch region from this time forward.”
Currently, UVSC’s Wasatch Campus consists of a single facility that serves approximately 350 students. The master plan for that campus is a series of buildings whose capacity would be 10,000 students. The Wasatch Campus was established in October 2003 and serves the higher education needs in the Wasatch mountain communities. The Wasatch Campus offers a bachelor’s degree in secondary education as well as associate of art and associate of science degrees.
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