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Stan L. Albrecht
President, Utah State University

Keynote Address on Friday, August 3, 2007

Stan L. AlbrechtStan L. Albrecht is the President of Utah State University, appointed February 2005, where he also served four years as Executive Vice President and Provost.

Albrecht has acquired a broad range of administrative, research, teaching, and outreach experiences through his career. This includes administrative assignments as a department chair, academic dean (twice), associate director of a major research institute, and academic vice president. At Utah State University, he was Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences prior to his appointment as Provost. He has served in a number of professional assignments, including a Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Panel on Alternatives for Basing the MX missile and as a member of the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service Science Advisory Committee.

He has authored or co-authored five books and published over 100 articles in refereed journals and book chapters. His research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and a number of other programs and agencies. He has received outstanding research awards at both the University of Florida and Brigham Young University and several teaching awards. Albrecht currently serves on the Economic Development Corporation of Utah Board of Trustees, Salt Lake Chamber Board of Governors, the Wells Fargo Northern Utah Community Board, and is a member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) International Agriculture Coordinating Committee Council of Presidents, and the Cache Valley Regional Council. He was editor of Rural Sociology during 1979-1982, and served as RSS Vice-President during 1984-85.

 

Carol Whiteside
President, Great Valley Center
Modesto, California

Keynote Address on Saturday, August 4, 2007

Carol WhitesideCarol Whiteside is the Founder and President of the Great Valley Center, a nonprofit organization which she began in August of 1997.

Based in Modesto, the Great Valley Center's mission is to support organizations and activities that promote the economic, social and environmental well-being of California's Central Valley, a fast growing region extending 450 miles from Mt. Shasta to the Tehachapis, and east to west from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the crest of the Coast Ranges.

Prior to founding the Great Valley Center, she served on the staff of Governor Pete Wilson, first as Assistant Secretary of the California Resources Agency where she specialized in land use, conservation and growth management, and then as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, focusing on community and economic development.

Previous to her work in Sacramento, Carol Whiteside served as a member of the Modesto City School Board, as a member of the Modesto City Council, and as the elected Mayor of Modesto from 1987 to 1991.

Carol has been active in the California League of Cities, the US Conference of Mayors and local governments at both the state and national level. Internationally, she has also participated in training seminars and leadership development with elected officials in Eastern Europe, Asia and North Africa. Carol currently serves on numerous boards, including the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Public Policy Institute of California, the California Emerging Technology Fund and the Sierra Health Foundation. In 2004, she was appointed to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Sierra Nevada Conservancy.
She was awarded Cal Poly Pomona's 2006 Dale Prize for "Crossing Boundaries: Fostering a Regional Approach to Environmental Planning."

Carol is a graduate of the University of California at Davis. She and her husband, Judge John Whiteside, have two grown sons.