By Salt Lake Chamber

State legislators should increase the tobacco tax to at least the national average and utilize the Rainy Day Fund to protect public and higher education from budget cuts. That was the message from the Salt Lake Chamber, Utah’s largest and longest-standing business association, at the State Capitol today.

By PR Newswire

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business announced today that Stephen R. Covey, an internationally recognized authority on leadership and a best-selling author, has agreed to join its faculty as a tenured, full professor at Utah State University and the first incumbent of the Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair in Leadership.

By Business Wire

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The VRS Interpreting Institute today announced its new School-to-Work Program.

February 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, UT - University of Phoenix has named Paul Benner as the associate director of Academic Affairs for the Utah Campus.

By Randy Shumway, president of the Cicero Group 
and Dr. Trent Kaufman Executive Vice President of the Cicero Group

The recent financial crisis has made policy wonks argue about short- and long-term solutions to the challenges we face. Philosophical debates about our independent banking system, stock market regulation, and federalism itself lace the halls of Congress, monopolize the water cooler chatter at our workplaces and overwhelm the blogosphere. However, there is one long-term solution to our economic situation with which very few informed individuals disagree.

The Utah Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) state competition needs Utah business professionals to sign up as judges.

Westminster College’s Institute for New Enterprise is pleased to announce MBA student Tommy Aoki as the first place winner of the 2009-2010 Opportunity Quest business plan competition for his company “Wireless Technologies.”

By David J. Jordan 
Partner, Stoel Rives

It is a foolish farmer who eats his seed corn in tough times. Nothing will be left to plant for a future harvest. Utah students are the seed corn of our economy. If we do not do our very best to teach and train them now, they will not be equipped to create and fill the careers of tomorrow; and we will all be the poorer for it.