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Show Thursday, January 10, 2008 0 RE M TIMES Page 13 UVSC forms regional theater for children and youth Brittani Lusk DAILY HERALD It all started in the Or em Rec Center hot tub last fall Tye Noorda was there in a hot pink swimming suit and Katie Farmer, who works with UVSCs Department of Theatrical Theatri-cal Arts was there, too. They talked about dreams. On Monday, Utah Val- -ley State College announced the formation of the Noorda Regional Theatre Center for Children and Youth, funded by the Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation. Noorda made the donation in honor of her late husband, Ray Noorda, the former CEO of Novell UVSC , officials would not disclose the amount of the donation. The program, which will consist of new facilities, research, re-search, faculty and programs for UVSC, is the dream of both Noorda and Farmer. "Tye has told me for years and years, 'I have a dream,' " said friend Maria Escamilla, who introduced Farmer and Noorda "1 say Katie, Tye, you have the same dream." After the hot tub meeting. Farmer wrote a proposal for the project and presented it to the school and Noorda. All liked the idea, and the Noorda Theatre Center was born. UVSC President Bill Sederburg. Sed-erburg. joked that the school needed more people in swimming swim-ming pools. "We just need to send more people to the Orem Rec Cen UVSC looks for more funding Brittani Lusk The university transition task force has been planning Utah Valley State College's debut as Utah Valley University, Univer-sity, its sixth name change, for months. There's the construction of the new Library, fundraising. new logos, a new mission and more that need to be done before be-fore the school becomes UVU on July I. In the near future. UVSC is looking for more funding from the Utah Legislature. First. UVSC wants the rest of the $10 million that was pledged for the transition. Last year, it was allocated $ million. The next $2 million will help improve degree programs, including the new masters degree in education. UVSC has received approval for the master's degree its first from the school's board of trustees. It is stLH awaiting approval from the state board of regents. The regents did. how ever, grant UVSC the authorty to offer master's degrees when it recently approved ap-proved a new mission statement state-ment for the school "We g that approved in December. Hallelujah.'' said Cameron Martin, chairman of the transition task force. The library raTstrut-tiort is also on track. Jim MkhaeHs. UVSCs as of l(ds GibtQciiinvbyanJCKeMui! Encourage your children to read a newspaper every day. It can help make their wishes come true." Brandy, recording artist, actress Ml W n r W- ,i I 0 UVSCs President William Sederburg ter." Sederburg said. The donation will fund part of a new black box theater and the endowment for the program. pro-gram. It is the largest single-payment single-payment gift that UVSC has sociate vice president for facilities, facili-ties, said there will be a soft opening of the library (called a digital learning center) on June 1. when the books and furniture furni-ture will be moved in preparation prepara-tion for the ribbon cutting. The formal opening will be Jury 1. Right now. crews are Finishing the main stairwell painting the third floor and putting sheet-rock sheet-rock in the second and fourth floors. There is so much to be done in the next six months that UVSC president William Sederburg Se-derburg called the task overwhelming. over-whelming. "It s a very massive thing. It's an exciting time at UVSC Sederburg said. "We're building build-ing on the fly. It's a fun thing to da It's also challenging because some balls can drop from time to rime." Martin isn't worried about missing the deadline. No matter mat-ter what happens. UVSC becomes be-comes UVU on July I. "Well make it. That's not a problem because we have a lot of great people who are completely com-pletely dedicated." Martin said. Martin said the school isn't the only thing getting a name change. The Associated Students Stu-dents of Utah Valley State College wlH have to change its name. The Professional Association Asso-ciation of College Employees, the organization of college employees, will also have to change. Last month. UVSC unveiled DOLLARS BOLLAR Sei ta,, Asanas, Itim, nm mi am 550 North Geneva Road Orem ((801)225-0001) tvoXit I MARK JOHNSTON Daily Herald (left presents a gift toTye Noorda Monday in thanks for a generous donation to the school. ever received. UVSC spokeswoman spokes-woman Megan Laurie said. Noorda asked the school not to discuss the amount of the donation. "It was a very generous do new logos for UVU, which have yet to appear on campus. cam-pus. There's also a new Web site in the works. That hasn't launched either, but before UVSC becomes UVU. all of the information on the Web site must be converted to the new site. UVSC also has to change e-mail addresses and business cards. Soon UVSC e-mail addresses ad-dresses will end in uvu.edu. Michaelis said crews will begin replacing signs in May and June. They have to change everything with Utah Valley State College on it from the floor of the gym to freeway signs. Michaels said the process hasn't begun yet because the school doesnl officially offi-cially change for almost seven months. t "You don't want to do it too early because we're really not Utah Valley University until July 1." Michaelis said, Sederburg said the school is in the process of changing many of its formal policies from community college standards to policies that are university worthy. For example, ex-ample, professors who want to achieve tenure may have to demonstrate more of an ability to keep on top of their scholarship and a commitment to the community. The school wQI also have to learn how to recruit and retain students better, bet-ter, build a bigger honors program pro-gram and offer more degrees. Val Peterson, UVSCs vice fkmm if ntto nation," Laurie said. It is enough to fund a perpet ual endowment, officials said. Laurie said the donation is not as large as the $20 million that was recently given to the to help with UVU transition president of administration legal affairs, said the next priority for the school will be an expaasion of the science building. Right now the school has 2.200 science majors and a general education science requirement. "The current facility we have was not designed for that kind of throughput." Peterson said. The new building being proposed pro-posed is a 140,000-square-foot, $52 million dollar project. It should ease congestion if approved. ap-proved. "We have a real space crisis on campus," Sederburg said. "We're out of faculty office space. Our classrooms are totally to-tally booked between 10 a m. and 2 p.m." After that. UVSC is looking for money for faculty paychecks pay-checks and to purchase land orth Count)' Newspapers Deity Herald Publishing Co. 399 L State Id. - Pteosant Grvve, UT 14062 755-7563 FAX: 755-5274 Abortion? Why? Consider Adoption Warm, secure loving home available far newborn baby. Please call 80Q-606-44ft Af077 ADOPT: Young, stay-at-home mom and loving dad will1 give your baby secu-rity secu-rity & strong family values E.ip. paid Saraft & Boo t-aa-TtQ80 ALLYSE'S Bridal now hiring PT oridat consultant con-sultant Please turn in application to the AF location irr The Meadows Mead-ows or call 756-3032 POSTAL JOBS $f708-S28 27hr now hiring. For application and free government oo into,, call American Assoc of Labor t-T3-599-8042,. 24hrs. emp serv. 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Sederburg Se-derburg said the university expects to expand to 30,000 students, two more campuses one in north Utah County and one near Payson as well as expanding master's degree programs and increasing increas-ing athletic and academic Rockwell Charter High School will open its doors Hi Eagle Mountain Moun-tain starting August 2008 Rockwell Charter Char-ter High School is a free, public high school open to all Utah students. The sc hoot wilt serve 600 students in grades 8M2 with a rigorous college-prep aratory, liberal arts education in a smaller classroom environment Athlet-ics, Athlet-ics, activity clubs, service organization and other activities will be part of the Rockwell enpenence. 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"I've just seen it change a lot of people's lives," Noorda said. She asked those at the news conference to get involved. "Help. Help to make this successful because you will change thousands of lives," Noorda said. Farmer said the new center will need helpers and volunteers. volun-teers. "We're going to try to involve as many people in as many ways as possible," Farmer said. Sederburg has often spoken of creating a university that is committed to the community. commu-nity. There are three pillars: creating students of integrity, professional competence and stewards of place. This project is built to foster engaged learning. learn-ing. "This is one more step in helping create a community-engaged community-engaged university," Sederburg Seder-burg said. standards. "It's really to be recognized nationally as an outstanding, high-quality institution and known for this engaged scholarship schol-arship that we're promoting." Sederburg said. 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