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Show Insicje this issue ws Opinions Special Feature: Cedar City Shakespearean Festival Wolverine athletics score with a spot in the Great West Conference B5 Bl Students say what is on their minds with university status, Pres. Sederburg leaving and more. Glenn Beck graces Provo with his holiness. A5 A4 It's official Pres. Sederburg accepts job as Commissioner Jack Waters J | Editor-in-chief School dedicated as University Dave Fullmerg| News writer Wilson Sorenson knew that the time would come when the institution he helped build and preside over for so many years would become a university. That time is now, since UVU became a reality in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the steps of the new library • ' ' , ' . • on July 1. Sorenson, 92, was in attendance as former UVSC presidents, civic leaders and library architects gave remarks on the transition from See DEDICATION • A2 To read more.stories on the ribbon cutting ceremony see A2. As was reported in the June 30 issue of UVU Review, Pres. William A. Sederburg has officially accepted the position of commissioner for the Utah System of Higher Education. The State Board of Regents announced Tuesday by a unanimous vote that Pres. William A. Sederburg be named as Utah's seventh Commissioner of Higher Education. Pres. Sederburg will take office as commissioner on Aug. 18, succeeding the position left vacant when Dr. Richard E. Kendell retired from the position Dec. 31. Associate Commissioner Dave Buhler, serving as interim commissioner since Jan. 1, will continue in that role until Pres. Sederburg takes office in August. In a press release, the former president said. "I want you to be aware that I have accepted the position of commissioner for the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE), which 1 will assume on August IS, 2008. I also wish to express my appreciation for all you have (Above) President Sederburg finishes his remarks at the ribbon cutting done to make UVU a great ceremony. Just a week after university status, Sederburg accepted the institution." position of Utah's Commissioner of Higher Education. Under the leadership of Pres. Sederburg, UVSC (Right) President Monson puts a UVU baseball cap on former UVSC .transitioned to UVU. An inpresident Wilson Sorenson before going to the podium to give his tegral and impressive part of the transition is the recently opened 190,000-square-foot library. He has been instrumental in the addition of 26 new baccalaureate degrees in a variety of fields, the approval of UVU's first master's degree — which will be in education - and the hiring of an additional 129 faculty members to teach in new degree areas as part of the extensive planning effort on campus to become a comprehensive regional state university. Sederburg said, "It was not an easy decision to decide whether or not to accept the commissioner position. I have been so pleased with the creativity and energy demonstrated by UVU over the past few years. We should feel proud of what we have; accomplished in becoming a community-engaged university." Sederburg was mum with the' announcement in the days leading up to the UVU transition, including his statement to UVU Review, in which, regarding other job possibilities, he said, "Don't bring me into this thing. I'm going to dodge the question totally." In the press release, Sederburg went on, Li have found it fun and invigorating to work with the faculty, staff and students of UVU. See SEDERBURG • A2 remarks. - ^ 7 Big Break Down Liberal Arts building now openly connected to library Jennie Nicholls J soon inhabit it. With no sledgehammer in sight to commence the wall breaking, Bill Sederburg, The dark, north end of the former president of UVU, Liberal Arts Building hall- introduced the student body way has been illuminated presidents in attendance, insince the opening of the Dig- cluding the current student ital Learning Center on June body president, Joseph Wat30. Closed since construc- kins, and last year's presition began, the doors were dent, Kris Coles. sealed off that Terri Anne originally led "I never said Howard, the only to the LA parkfemale student ing lot, leaving our presidents body president less light and a were smart." in school history, dead end while reminisced about building of the Former UVU Presi- the last library library ensued. dent Sederburg opening, recallAfter nearly ing that she had two years of been a speaker construction, the wall be- then as well. She was first to tween the LA building and make a blow to the wall once the library has been torn the sledgehammer arrived. down. Former student body The remaining former presidents and excited fac- student body presidents proulty and staff joined together ceeded in chronological orto see the wall come down, der, each taking their whack Student Body President Joseph Watkins and President Sederburg ushering in th new tide of examine the wall Watkins just ran through that opened up the hallway traffic that will, undoubtedly, Editor at large See WALL • A2 from the LA building to the new library. UVU trades programs Stays true to its heritage Whitney WagnerMj News writer As UVU has developed, one program that has always brought people here to learn has been the trades program. Now that UVU is officially a university, the trades programs will be getting a face-lift. More than 15,000 students with diverse backgrounds are currently enrolled in trades programs at UVU. Despite the buzz surrounding the possibility of cutting the trades program as the college becomes a university, those 15,000 students will stay right where they are: in class. Career and technical education classes are some of the most successful classes on campus, placing eight out of every 10 graduates into jobs in their field following graduation. Not only will the university be keeping the trades program, but they will be boosting it. The U.S Department of Labor approved a $1.7 million grant for the School of Technology and Computing. With the grant, UVU will be adding a new mechatronics program, which is a combination of computer science and business, using engineering principles to study complex machines and hybrid systems. UVU will be the only school in the state to offer an AAS degree in mechatronics. The construction management program has also undergone a few changes. Thanks to Clyde Companies Inc., UVU will soon be the only trades program in the region to study the construction of roads and bridges. "UVSC is committed to retaining the community college feel- and purpose with open enrollment, yet we soon will add the unique advantages of university status," said Susan Thackeray, director of Career and Technical Education. UVU students will still have the option of shortSee TRADES • A4 |