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Show -- 2- WEDNESDAXAUGUstTi' DIXIESUNLINK.COM IPI SCAN HERE bycj with y0Uft MARTPHONE r The ,iiipuS CHECK OUT OUR !,edu MOBILE jeph P A & Ei DIXIESUNLINK.COMM0eite Board of Trustees elect new head Desertscape BY ABIGAIL SNOW Staff Writer The board of trustees at Dixie State College recently elected Steven G. Caplin as its new chairman on August 10. Caplin hopes to help continue promoting campus growth along with his fellow trustees. We are continually increasing the number of bachelor degrees offered here at Dixie, and have been graduating more students each year. In addition to the growth in the academic departments, Caplin mentioned that the campus is expanding nicely to accompany more students and faculty. The new Jeffrey R. Holland Centennial Commons Building will be home to a number of academic departments. The building will also house student services and a library. This new building has been planned to have room for expansion in time if needed. Caplin said the board has established a plan to turn DSC into a university. They have received support from the legislature and the government of the state of Utah to expand into a university. According to the Superintendent of Washington County School District, and board of trustees member. Max Rose, there is not a specific number of bachelor degrees specified in order for a college to become a university. It is a combination of the number of students, plus "enough" bachelor degrees and faculty sufficient to offer the degrees. When these non specific standards are met the college will petition the Regents who can decide if the readiness is there. The Regents decided this past year that Dixie will be a university within three to five years. It will be fascinating to see the process through to the end. DSC continues to build on this strategy and currently is pending approval for two more bachelor degrees in his DSC. Some of his asso- ciated duties as chairman are conducting board meetings, and interfacing with the president, administration and board of regents on behalf of the board of trustees. Caplin has been a member of the DSC board of trustees since 2005 and recently served as vice chair for the last two years. He also currently is the president and CEO of Steton Technology, a leading provider of application software. Steve Caplin is going to be a highly effective chairman of the board, Rose said. He is very intelligent and thorough in his grasp of issues and will continue to lead the board into Dixie's Staff Writer Dixie State College's science building has a unique feature that has actually been around for decades, and after a much needed update it is nearly complete. The garden first started sometime during the 1960s, said Del Smith, assistant profes- X 1 ions mum slits lab oath May 4 liiesd impu jeobs work," Smith said. garden was muddy full of garbage. ItWas, not very J longs ,ontra ormiu aesthetically i;nian pleasing at all." Smith always Jiek hoped that the garden could cieve some of the work re. he wished for, but he never thought his idea would come to fruiti0n sor of biology. And Smith said that the garden looked about 50 years old as well. "You could tell it had been around for quite some time," Smith said. "The state of the garden was so bad, it's not even "This "jescl iegK uuden iiiden the ill project n felt a pipe dream that hast' nally started to become, lover Rue1 Dollar reality." Smith said The initial planning tl lire ofgoc stages of the renovation started taking place hat w Te ha m November. Senior condary education funny." Smith said everytime he walked to his office, he would look at the garden and think about how much a few minor se- was a large part planning and ;ut to lor it major Ezra Irvin of St. George ofove of the She work, and his enthusiasm for the project was contagious After help from some private donors, allocation of funds from the biology department, changes would impact the space. Besides some professors who would offer extra credit to students to help weed the garden, much hadn't been done to keep it looking nice and tidy. "From the time I great accomplishments that have gotten us this far, Caplin said. As a board, we want to build on that foundation of success and look forward to building a - The- startec working here and a 12 years ag0) felt it needed some BY AMANDA JACOBS from DSC. We have had a very successful 100 years as a college, and it is nice to reflect back on all the etiio re- news biology future. I have known him since he was a young man and have respected him for what he does and what he can do. He is a deliberative man and considers all sides of an issue prior to making a decision. I trust him in every way and look forward to his leadership. Caplin said he is excited to help lead DSC into further expansion and feels we have had remarkable success in the academic programs offered. He said there are outstanding educators in all academic departments, and this has added to the success of bachelors students advancing on to masters degrees after graduation tory and criminal justice. As the new chairman of the board of trustees, Caplins primary goal is to support the president, administration, faculty and staff at DSC. 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