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Show c*-1/ juitt:Y f-J PANGUITCH • PANGUITCH LAKE • HATCH • BRYCE • TROPIC • ANTIMONY • HENRIEVILLE • CANNONVILLE • ESCALANTE • BOULDER Thursday, May 19, 2011 • Issue # 323 TED CHIDESTER RECEIVES USHFF COACHES HALL OF HONOR AWARD Utah Cluster Acceleration Partnership (UCAP) Aligning Higher Education with Industry, Talent and Innovation Needs Ted Chidester, former Panguitch High School basketball coach, has been selected to receive the Utah Sports Hall of Fame Foundation's Coach of Merit award. Ted, along with six other individuals, will be recognized and honored for his outstanding success in athletics and influencing for good the young people under his tutelage, and who led by example in promoting dedication, hard work, character development, and leadership. The USHFF Coaches Hall of Honor Banquet will be held Wednesday, June 1, 2011, at the South Towne Expo Center, 9575 South State Street in Sandy, Utah beginning with a 6:15 p.m. social and 7:00 p.m. banquet. Those wanting to join Ted and his family at the Hall of Honor banquet may purchase tickets by mailing a request with check payable to USHFF to USHFF, 10182 South Cornerstone, South Jordan, UT 84095 or by calling Scott Mayne at 801253-7361 no later than May 28, 2011. Banquet tickets are $40 each. When making a reservation, please indicate that you are in support of Ted and you will be seated accordingly. ,1 g ,) jai I NI HADA INSTITUTE'S I 01N ANNUAL _ kW' ty " w POETRY & MUSIC FESTIVAL MAY 27-28, 2011 — MEMORIAL WEEKEND May 541 - lortorfar 2-111PM The Blue Sage Band Paul Bona & Nan Weber Ray Conrad Cameron Hallows Brenn Hill Mary Kaye & The Duel Dick & Jane Morton Tangle Ridge Rough Around the Edges The Vapor TrailEands Wayne County High School Cowboy/Cowgirl Poetry Winners Robber% Recut llooksion Outdoor Stage, Iteury. Utah Cali or Woo) Thirst prices: $35 day or $40 both days Wayne County harideatz $15 day ar 035 both days Tiatets are mashie at Robber% Roost Dookstore, at the gate or adios at www.entradidasdruto.org Pbod by Cafe Malik Spasms Robber. Roost Laois and Novoratfoo • llooldomr /Moats** Zoodo • Wart* C•oaty Trawl Cosattl Tommy Nem Patna • Coottoa & Meets • Renato Kaufman. Realtor. Utah Roalta Advison • Tocaoy Idomallkomao <asps.. & l aw a l, Ka as , WEATHER THURSDAY ISOLATED T STORMS HIGH: 52 LOW: 35 FRIDAY HIGH: 58 FEW SHOWERS LOW: 39 SATURDAY PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH: 65 LOW: 41 SUNDAY MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH: 69 LOW: 41 MONDAY I FEW SHOWERS HIGH: 63 LOW: 39 TUESDAY SHOWERS state. (To download a pdf of these objectives and guiding principles for success, click here.) Specifically, UCAP is designed to address the following objectives: 1. Effectively position higher education institutions as regional stewards directly contributing to the long term economic growth of their respective regions. 2. Effectively leverage the leadership and resources of higher education to address state and regional needs that will accelerate the growth of the region's economy. 3. Establish partnerships between academic leaders and the leaders from industry, government, and the community at large. 4. Define cross organizational strategies directed at accelerating change and ensuring the long term economic vitality of the region. Capitalize on higher 5. education institutions as hubs for economic development, the source for trained work force and idea centers of advanced and applied research. 6. Provide students with an expanded learning experience that includes working directly with business partners. 7. Confirm each institutions unique capacity to lead and convene acceleration initiatives in specific economic clusters. 8. Ultimately alter the culture of higher education orienting it more to its role as an economic stimulator for growth and business acceleration. UCAP Model There are four basic phases to the UCAP model with one pre-phase. While the pre-phase is optional, it is encouraged. The following is a brief description of each phase. These descriptions are used as criteria to evaluate a proposal by the Oversight Committee. Pre-Phase – Demonstrate a working relationship between the convening USHE institution and targeted regional stakeholders. Absent of this relationship, the USHE institution (under the direction of its president) conducts a stewardship audit to fortify working relationships between the institution and its stakeholders. The stewardship audit should build the USHE institution's network of services, increase capability of meeting regional needs, and identify a specific UCAP projects to launch and sustain. Phase I – A strategic assessment and analysis of the industry cluster's shortand long-term needs for talent and innovation support (includes a current gap analysis). Phase II – An acceleration strategy designed to meet the industry cluster's needs and address the identified gaps. Phase III – An implementation plan to take action (includes replication strategy). Phase IV – Proposed outcome; describe the tools and data to evaluate and measure outcomes; e.g., potential occupation wages, projected openings per year, projected occupational growth (DWS is a resource for this data). Convening Institutions USHE institutions offer several benefits to assist these clusters to achieve a new level of success. Given the long-term nature of university and college planning and their unique position as "neutral ground," higher education institutions can naturally play the role of "convener" for each UCAP project. The leadership of the university or college president is of particular import. He or she has the public influence and power to convene—to bring the necessary parties together, to set the expectations of each project, to align the resources of higher education (including the leverage of resources and expertise from other higher education institutions), and ensure appropriate measures of accountability and sustainability of each project. USHE institutions provide the essential role of administrating, presiding, and coordinating the UCAP projects. A primary purpose of the UCAP initiative is to deliberately engage Utah's regional state universities and community colleges. These institutions serve as economic engines that develop the talent-force to meet the regional employment and training needs. Additionally, these institutions act as economic hubs Are 01/1_ in of entrepreneurial activity. These centers of learning generate a byproduct of ideas and businesses that contribute to the state's regional economies. Thus, the regional state universities and community colleges are targeted as the convening institutions for the UCAP projects, but they are also charged with engaging all relevant resources of the Utah System of Higher Education. Funding Grant funding for each UCAP project is approved by the Oversight Committee according to a project proposal. Project proposals outline the scope of work and funding needs for each phase. Upon receiving phase I funding, recipients have four to five months to produce an assessment of the industry clusters and a strategic plan. Funding for phases III and IV is contingent upon the Oversight Committee approval of the industry cluster assessment and the strategic plan. Grant funds are pooled together from the participating agencies and are awarded as one-time seed funds to launch and sustain each project through phase IV. Thereafter, it is expected that the higher education institutions and engaged businesses will repurpose existing resources to sustain long-term outcomes. Facilitation Central to the UCAP model is the function of facilitator. The facilitator plays the key role in leading the discussion and identifying cluster opportunities, managing the logistical affairs of meetings and deadlines, recording decisions and assignments, and reporting outcomes for accountability. The facilitation services for each UCAP project is to be publically bided according to each institutions' purchasing policies and procedures. The UCAP model organizational templates and group worksheets will be made available to the selected facilitator and coordinated through the office of Economic Development and Planning within the Commissioner's Office. cbaroe of a Webbing ginner Reception * Family reunion * Company party Let us el or too wail r usi 0141 N Chicken Pork/Beef Rihs Steak Prime 106 DDT Dutch Oven Dinner Time Davie & Denene Townson 435-680-3734 HIGH: 67 LOW: 39 WEDNESDAY PARTLY CLOUDY The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) has partnered with Utah's Department of Workforce Services (DWS) and the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) to improve the coordination and leveraging of Utah's economic development endeavors and resources. The objective of UCAP is to accelerate key industry clusters as engines ofjob creation and economic growth. Clusters provide a framework for formulating and implementing effective public policies and making public investments to foster economic development. The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) has partnered with Utah's Department of Workforce Services (DWS) and the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) to improve the coordination and leveraging of Utah's economic development endeavors and resources. The objective of UCAP is to accelerate key industry clusters as engines ofjob creation and economic growth. Clusters provide a framework for formulating and implementing effective public policies and making public investments to foster economic development. UCAP Oversight An oversight team, comprised of the Executive Director of DWS, the Executive Director of GOED, and the Commissioner of Higher Education for USHE, oversees the selection of grant recipients, the approval of assessments and strategic plans, the approval of implementation plans, outcome measurement and evaluations, budgets, and other activities associated with the execution of UCAP projects and grants. Each project will be expected to provide a quarterly update to the oversight team. Objectives of UCAP The objective of the UCAP projects in general is to capitalize on the position and contribution that institutions of higher education can make to the overall economic development of both their respective regions and the Utah state economy as a whole. This untapped potential, if capitalized on successfully, will directly contribute to the acceleration of targeted industries as well as the wide spectrum of economic growth opportunities across the Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. HIGH: 69 Leo Rosten LOW: 36 Multimedia Phone: 435-676-2621 Fax 1-888-370-8546 PO BOX 472, Loa, Utah 84747 snapshot@scinternet.net • Member of: or Utah Press ** * ** I FPA. NDEPENDENT FREE PAPERS OF AMERICA LkcP] THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER is owned and operated by Snapshot Multimedia and is distributed weekly to all of Garfield County. 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