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Assuming responsibility: New MTECH President Kirt Michaelis outlines college's priorities
Facing an evolving workforce and rapid population growth in Utah County, the Utah Board of Higher Education selected a president for Mountainland Technical College who may know the school better than anyone. After 18 years of serving as MTECH's vice president of administrative services, Kirt Michaelis was announced Friday in Lehi as the school's newest leader, replacing President Clay Christensen following his 20-year stint. When Michaelis first joined the college's staff in 2004, it had a different name, Mountainland Applied Technology College, and no place to call its own, ...