Contact Information Senior Officer

Contact Information Senior Officer:

(435) 652-7857 or email gwilliams@dixie.edu

Mr. James L. Dupras

(435) 652-7627 or email dupras@dixie.edu

Recruiting NCO:

Staff Sargent Thomas Tobin

(435) 862-2587 or email thomas.william.tobin@us.army.mil
DESCRIPTION, MISSION, VALUES

Dixie’s ROTC program is affiliated with the Udvar-Hazy School of Business for the same reason that it is affiliated with the business/management programs at other colleges and universities, because of its strong emphasis on leadership and management principles. The ROTC Leadership Excellence Program is designed to complement the civilian goal of acquiring a baccalaureate degree. ROTC graduates reflect leadership skills valuable for leaders in business, civic, and community affairs. The program is designed to produce highly qualified commissioned officers in the U.S. Army, the U.S. Army Reserve, or the Army National Guard. Students specialize in the major field of their choice and graduate with the ability to function as junior executives. Army ROTC is the largest officer-producing organization with the American military having commissioned more than half a million second lieutenants since its inception. Today, Army ROTC has a total of 272 programs located at colleges and universities throughout the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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   Be proficient as an individual Soldier
   
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   Be proficient as a member of a team in select tasks
   
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   Solve tactical problems using principles that underlie doctrine and warfighting
   
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   Understand the roles of officers and NCOs in the Army
   
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   Demonstrate effective leadership expected of a junior officer in accomplishing assigned missions
   
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   Demonstrate courage, character, integrity, and toughness
   

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   Leadership:
   
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      Introduction to the TLP’s
      
   2. 
      Values:
      
      1. 
         Memorize the Warrior Ethos
         
   3. 
      Personal Development:
      
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         Retain 55% of MS I Students
         
      2. 
         Academically Aligned (30 Credits, 2.5 GPA)
         
      3. 
         Pass the APFT
         
      4. 
         Complete 6 Mile Road March
         
      5. 
         Pass Swim Test and CWST
         
   4. 
      Officership:
      
      1. 
         Customs and Courtesies
         
      2. 
         Assign Battle Buddy/Mentor/ Friend
         
      3. 
         Proper Ware of the Military Uniform and Field Equipment
         
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      Tactics & Techniques:
      
      1. 
         Land Navigation Familiarization
         
      2. 
         Participate in Labs and FTX’s
         

The ROTC reports to the Dean of Business on the DSC campus. It also reports to the higher Army Headquarters, that is, to the Professor of Military Science at Brigham Young University. The professor reports to 5^th Brigade of the U.S. Army cadet Command.

The above data has been collected since the ROTC has been at DSC. The Dixie ROTC program came down from SUU in late 2008, so a five year data assessment has not been gathered. Since 2010 seven students have been commissioned. Conversely, there have been seven “cadets” dis-enrolled due failure to meet the standards or all commissioning requirements.

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  Military Science was added as an emphasis area in Bachelors of Integrated Studies Degree
  
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  Downsizing of military is causing an adjustment to recruiting efforts, focusing more on “higher quality”
  

The majority of the unit resources are provided by the federal government. Personnel are military employees.

+ Support from the Utah Army National Guard (resource and strength)

+ Support from the School of Business (resource and strength)

+ Quality students coming into our program (strength) Limiting Factors

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  Limiting contracts from higher headquarters
  
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  Financial resources to conduct more/realistic training and training aides
  
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  Size of new location for a growing program
  

The unit plans to grow and flourish at Dixie State College. It will be moving to a new location on campus Summer 2012. The Dixie ROTC program is committed to excellence, not only in the classroom, but also on campus and in the community.

The St. George Regional Small Business Development Center (see www.utahsbdc.org and www.sba.org.) is located on the Dixie State College campus in association with the Dixie Business Alliance Business Resource Center (see www.dixiebusinessalliance.com) and the Dixie State College Department of Business. The Center is located in a strategic setting in the middle of the educational and business communities of St. George, Utah.

The Small Business Development Center is part of the Udvar-Hazy School of Business and reports to the Dean of the School, William Christensen. The Center has a full-time SBDC Director, Lennart T. Erickson, who has been with the SBDC since 2008, after thirty plus years in various Fortune 500 companies; Over-seas ventures; Small Business ownership; and Corporate Executive positions. There is one other full-time employee Lanora Nielson and one part-time counselor Kelly Wilson in Kanab, Utah. The St. George region covers Washington and Kane Counties. Kelly Wilson is the main part-time counselor handling Kane County. The center shares 10 percent of Lanora’s time with the Business Resource Center. Lennart Erickson also oversees the Business Resource Center which takes very little of his time and he teaches an entrepreneurial class each semester at Dixie State College which helps to boost the SBDC awareness in the community and the college’s awareness of the capabilities of the SBDC.

future entrepreneurs of the area. Kelly is active with the BEAR program and the area Chambers of Commerce always looking for clients.

The SBDC Center continually looks to provide outreach to the communities in Washington and Kane Counties by developing classes that can be delivered at the BRC in St. George, at the SWATC location in Kanab, on the Dixie State College campus and at various other locations in the small communities of Southern Utah.

George area. In these classes we have developed a program of on hands consulting of local businesses using the professor, Len Erickson, and other mentors to guide the students through the process of providing true business services to real local businesses.

It is critical that the SBDC continues to develop and nurture the relationships with the host, communities, educational institutions, financial institutions, businesses, state legislature, and local governments.

The St. George Regional Small Business Development Center is a part of the Dixie Business Alliance which is what is called a Business Resource Center. The partners within the Business Resource Center are: Small Business Development Center (SBDC); Washington County Economic Development Council; Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR); SEED Dixie; PTAC; and DXATC. We are all public entities that have been established to help the local business people to grow and prosper. You can see the complete Strategic Plan for 2012-2015 for the St. George Regional Small Business Development Center at http://www.dixiebusinessalliance.com/usbdc/doc/stgplan.pdf

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   Expanding Diversified economy with increasing wages.
   
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   Advanced quality of education.
   
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   Essential services and infrastructure.
   
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   Cooperation among Communities and the Region.
   
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   Maintained quality of life
   
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   Stewardship of our natural beauty and preservation of open space.
   

proven success of Utah’s research universities in creating and commercializing innovative technologies to create:

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   More technology-based start-up firms in Utah.
   
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   More high-paying job opportunities in Utah.
   
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   More business activity in Utah with an associated expansion of the tax base.
   

launched and operated by local entrepreneurs. SEED Dixie’s Major Strategic Goals are:

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   Increase Overall Support for Entrepreneurship.
   
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   Increase Entrepreneurial Talent.
   
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   Develop Capable Entrepreneurs.
   
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   Cultivate Business Opportunity Creation.
   
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   Increase Local Funding Resources for Entrepreneurs.
   
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   Increase Outside Funding Sources.
   

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  Identifying high-paying and high demand jobs in Washington County and in Utah.
  
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  Emphasizing the training needs of employers.
  
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  Providing flexible, open-entry, open-exit training programs which allow students to move at their own pace.
  
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  Developing easy to use and easy to understand curriculum.
  
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  Providing counseling and assessment services.
  
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  Emphasizing the importance of maintaining state-of-the-art programs.
  
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  Providing enrollment convenience for the student.
  
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  Keeping programs as affordable as possible.
  
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  Working to ensure that programs articulate to advanced training where applicable.
  

The St. George Regional Small Business Development Center funded and directed not only by Dixie State College but also by: The SBA; the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) for the State of Utah; and the Utah State Small Business Development Center. As a result our results are tracked and reported in many different metrics. This Center must produce or funding will be cut.

As demonstrated by the metrics, the St. George Small Business Development Center has a great impact on Southern Utah. When you look at the metrics of Capital Infusion, Sales Increases, Jobs Created and Saved and New Business Creation, there are very few, if any, other organizations that do so much with so little.

Over the past five years the scope and reach of the department has grown. It has been able to provide more counseling and training to the clients. The metrics have improved and as a result the funding has increased.