Professor Dennis Garner will be retiring after being a lecturer at USU Uintah Basin since 1998. Garner’s long list of awards speak for themselves. In 2004, Garner was awarded the USU Uintah Basin Teacher of the Year award and was also awarded the Taggart-Ballard Award of Excellence. He was awarded the Outstanding Teacher for USU Uintah Basin award in 2006 and the USU Regional Campuses New Program award in 2008. Garner started to receive even wider recognition in the last decade, being named the 2011 University Outstanding Business Educator by the Western Business Education Association. Garner was named the Utah Higher-Ed Educator of the Year by the Utah Business Education Association in 2013 and was nominated for Higher Education Teacher of the Year in 2015. “Dennis represents all that is good about the Uintah Basin Campus and has been engaged in campus and community development from the beginning,” said USU Uintah Basin vice president James Taylor. “It will be hard to replace someone as special as Dennis and we will miss his energy and excitement as well as his commitment to students.” The community is invited to attend a farewell gathering in honor of Garner on April 13th at noon at the USU Uintah Basin Roosevelt Campus.
