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| Paul ThompsonFor House and HomeHouse District 59 Experienced and Ready to Work- President of Weber State University
- Vice President of University Relations -- BYU
- Dean of Marriott School of Management -- BYU
- LDS Mission President -- Massachusetts Boston Mission
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Get to Know Paul Thompson Born and raised in Utah
Farm boy turned Educator
Father of five girls and one boy
Grandfather of twenty-four grandchildren |
| Paul's Vision for the FutureMake education our top priority - Provide our children with a first rate education
- Support teachers with mentoring, training opportunities, and adequate compensation
- Reduce class size
- Increase higher education funding to meet student needs
- With utah's premier economy -- we can do better -- we must do better
Support and strengthen Utah families- Put children first
- I am concerned about the future of my 11 grandchildren in Orem and all of the children of Utah.
- We need to do a better job of supporting families with improvements in education, healthcare, and a clean, safe and livable environment.
| Ensure quality healthcare for Utah's children - Over 300,000 Utahns are uninsured
- 90,000 of those are children
- Many business owners report that rising health care costs are their biggest challenge
- We can no longer postpone action on healthcare
Enact ethics reform in the Legislature- Lobbyists reported gifts of $250,000 to legislators in 2007
- Utah has the "Best legislature that money can buy" according to the Deseret News
- Legislators need to represent their constituents, not special interests
Speed up progress on mass transit- Reduce air pollution; 50% of pollution in Utah County comes from car emissions
- Ease road congestion with commuter rail & bus rapid transit
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Biography of Paul H. Thompson Paul H. Thompson and his wife Carolyn are the parents of six children, five daughters and one son. They have 24 grandchildren, 11 of whom are living in District 59, and six of whom are attending Bonneville Elementary School.
Paul is passionate about education. As the former president of Weber State University he sees the need to build a better future for those 11 grandchildren who live in Utah. “Without a first rate education our children will be unable to reach their potential, to participate fully in the American dream. Our goal should be more than mediocrity.”
Paul received a doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1969. From 1969 to 1973, he was an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He began work at Brigham Young University in 1973, serving during his time there as professor of Organizational Behavior, chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Management, dean of the Marriott School of Management, and vice president of Development and University Relations. He served as president of Weber State University from 1990 to 2002.
Following his service at Weber State he was called to be the president of the Massachusetts Boston Mission of the LDS Church. He returned to Utah, to Orem where three of his children and those 11 grandchildren live.
He has served on boards of a number of community organizations, including:
The Utah State Economic Development Board
The Coalition for Utah’s Future
Holy Cross Health System of Utah
Ogden Regional Medical Center
The Chamber Ogden/Weber
Ogden Eccles Conference Center
Utah Higher Education Assistance Authority
The Governor’s Work Force Development Task Force
Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park
National Advisory Committee for the Reserve Officers Training Corp
During those years of representing the university and acting on those boards he was always supportive of the governors under whom he served, while still working for increased support for education and various other state needs that seemed to always go “begging”.
Paul is the co-author of two books: Organization and People: Readings, Cases, and Exercises in Organizational Behavior and Novations: Strategies for Career Management.
He has had articles appearing in Harvard Business Review, Research Management, Management Review, and Organizational Dynamics.
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