President Caldwell was one of the best presidents that Dixie college has had.. Good luck to him at his next job!

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Best of luck to the Caldwells. Lee is good man who has given much to higher education.

Good what??

President Caldwell was the best thing that ever happened to Dixie State! He was making 30% of what he made in industry to try and help Dixie State! Too bad the Board of Regents are narrowminded! It will be sad to see Dixie State potential go to waste!

Beware crossing the Regents.

Finally after all of the mud slinging by the president and his athletic director. Now lets hope for the resignation of the athletic director!!

Could not agree more about the Athletic director, but what are your grounds for your comments on Caldwell???

Good luck and thanks to the Caldwells.

Mud slinging??

I never thought the Truth would be called Mud Slining! President Caldwell had nothing to gain from being Associated with Dixie State College!

Sorry Justice, but I think you should know what is going on before you talk!

President Caldwell will move on and Dixie State will still be average at best!

President Caldwell's rsignatiion is a sad, sad day for the citizens of St. George and Washington County, especially the young people. Caldwell understands that neglecting education is a terrible mistake for Utah generally and Southern Utah more specifically. His willingness to speak out about this terrible waste of human resources cost him the support of the ignorant portion of the Dixie GOP monopoly. The middle class generally, as usual, will suffer the consequences of another GOP blunder.

I left DSC a few years ago because it was a terrible place to teach. The faculty were so grossly underpaid and the workload was nothing short of exploitative. When Caldwell came on board everyone had great hope. i think he's a decent man (can't say that about his predecessor), but alas, he ran into the juggernaut that is the UT state legislature--and we know how they feel about education. Best of luck, Lee.

It is a sad, sad day for Dixie State College and thereby for Southern Utah. President Caldwell gave vision and hope for viable educational opportunities in our area. In the process he crossed a very few but powerful local political personalities and also antagonized the Board of Regents for his straight talks. All he wanted was good educational opportunities for our area. He had to leave at a very crucial time and the forces behind his untimely resignation may be trying to undo all the good that he was aspiring for.

The best evidence that this was a hatchet job on President Caldwell is that the Regents so conviently had his replacement within hours of the "resignation." They've gotten rid of Lee Caldwell and his inconvenient truths outlining how badly they've mismanaged the Higher Education system, and they've finally got their "yes" man.

It's a happy day for those wanted a puppet president at DSC, and a sad day for the prospects of innovative educational advancement in Washington County.

Good Luck President, our prayers are with you.

Southern Utah has a great institution in SUU and Dixie will never be more than second fiddle to them. Now that Caldwell is gone they will have an even harder time improving the school.

For years it has been known as the party school. Kids are excited to go there to have fun. Not to learn. And their neighbor SUSC is known as the gay and lesbian school. Southern Utah education is a joke and always will be!

It's pathetic that the regents already had Caldwell's successor chosen. Nadauld's a pathetic yes man who will do nothing but toady to the regents. Good luck Lee Caldwell.

Wilford T Smith

Your comments are a joke, Dixie and SUU not SUSC are the two best schools in the state. They are much better than the SLC colleges, and yes I attended both SLC big schools (the U and SLCC) as well as SUU. My wife graduated from both Dixie and the U, and she couldn't agree more. The sad fact is that the northern Utah schools will never realize this. In fact attending the U after SLCC and SUU was the biggest mistake I could have made, SLCC and SUU far surpassed the U in every aspect. I then took my educational pursuits out of state. The U is a great school for some aspects like medicine but that was not my direction.

Mr Smith, FYI SUU is known as the thespian school not the lesbian school LOOK IT UP in websters.

I am know attending Graduate School at the U and got a Masters at the Y and still believe my best educational experience was at SUU, but you proboably know better.

hopefully the new president cares about the athletic programs also,the athletic directors should be "next".

dixie is a great college.invest in the athletic depts more. athletic directors ???

Wow Mr Smith
A masters at the Y, Grad school at the U, Undergrad at SUU, and you don't know how to spell now or probably??? . . . . . sounds like a big waste of time for you and $ from our state's educational systems . . . .

Mr. Caldwell did what we call in the business world a POO -- "pursuing other opportunities." It's usually a euphemism for ... who knows what?

The politics regarding DSC and the UofU joining together stretch all the way to Washington D.C. with our former Governor Leavitt. The last thing Governor Leavitt's alma mater (SUU) wants is a union between DSC and the UofU. There have been "rumblings" around DSC for several months about a SUU/DSC plan instead of DSC joining with the UofU. Of course NONE of this is in the interest of the DSC students or the St. George community. It all comes back to who receives the money and who has power. Caldwell was absolutely forced out. He has been a tremendous asset to Dixie State College and was willing to stand up to the "politics" facing the area.... However, for doing so, he ultimately lost his position. Evidence yet again of how the Board of Regents really aren't striving for the benefit of DSC students or the St. George Community. GET SUU POLITICS OUT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY!!!

The Board of Regents has again proven its incompetence by removing a president who stands prominent amongst the historically great leaders of Dixie and Washington County. President Caldwell was a paragon of leadership, truth, vision, intelligence, and compassion. His life will be richer for new opportunities he will now pursue; Dixie students and Washington County residents will be poorer for his loss.

Best of luck to Pres. Caldwell! As a Dixie alum I do not support in any way the affiliation of Dixie with the UofU as it is currently proposed. I am not against growth and believe that the affiliation with the U is good, but not at the expense of Dixie losing its status, its individuality, and its identity to become the 'Univ. of Utah St George'. IT IS WRONG and any Dixie alumni who is a true rebel should protest the proposed current UofU affiliation vehemently!!!

--To Wilford T. Smith: Dixie, SUU and every other school in the Utah, can't even hold a candle to Penn State for parties and the Pink/Rainbow movements. So lighten up!!
Because of my education at Dixie, I got into Penn State and am currently going to graduate Magna Cum Laude, all because I went to a 'party school' to start my college education. Dixie College took me after I had applied to and got rejected by every other school in Utah. I still believe my education at Dixie was first class.

I am saddened by what has happened to a great leader and visionary. I am proud to be a Dixie and SUU Alum, but as a Washington County parent, the prospect of my children being able to get a degree from Dixie or UofU St. George, was much more important than the name of the school. Some local leaders believe that Dixie can do it on it's own, but it takes years to get funding for each program. By that time, my children (and yours) will have moved away to go to college. My hope is that Dixie will continue in the current direction of an affliation with the UofU.

President Caldwell, I feel, should be replaced by BYU's own Cloak Boy.

Who's with me?

Lee Caldwell is a man of honor and integrity. He spoke the truth about Utah's declining achievement in higher education. That truth, asserted by an employee of the Board of Regents, did not sit well. He had the data to back it up. Over time, the Regents began to see that what Dr. Caldwell was saying was correct. He ruffled a lot of feathers in the process, including the Commissioner of Higher Education who can make life difficult for a president who steps outside the accepted company line. But Dr. Caldwell knew the truth, and asserted it without timidity. The Regents eventually began to believe the troubling data that Dr. Caldwell possessed, and indeed Utah is facing a higher education crisis--we are not achieving higher education attainment levels that we were accustomed to, i.e., top ten in the country, etc. Those percentages were good for economic development as companies want an educated workforce. If we are slipping to, say, 26th or 27th in the country, then we are average at best, and quickly declining to the bottom tier. Lee is a clarion voice in the wilderness. He can hold his head up high. He's an inspiration to us all.