Goals, challenges await University of Utah president-elect David Pershing

Goals, challenges await University of Utah president-elect David Pershing

By Brian Maffly
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jan 28, 2012 09:14PM MDT

David Pershing has been a fixture on the University of Utah campus for 35 years, teaching heat transfer and fluid mechanics to undergraduates, running the engineering college, guiding the U.’s academic and cultural life, and studying simulated blasts and fires.
All of that was just a warm-up for what awaits Pershing as he prepares to move into the presidential suite in March.
His to-do list as U. president-elect is lengthy: Fix the university’s decrepit utilities. Shore up graduation rates. Kee...

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