Hartman is director of the university's Uintah Basin Branch Campus, where he has served since 1984, and is a regional director overseeing USU's outreach programs in Duchesne, Uintah and Daggett counties. The USU Board of Trustees appointed him to a newly created position on the Logan campus as assistant dean for program development, effective July 1. He will guide USU deans and department heads in developing and delivering degree programs across the state. Hartman will also serve as Extension's director of both continuing education and Cooperative Extension for the Ogden region, including Weber, Davis, Morgan and Summit counties. He replaces Terry Teigeler in this assignment, with Teigeler continuing as director of USU's Ogden Center for Graduate Studies.
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Hartman, who holds two degrees from Brigham Young University and a doctorate from the University of Montana, has been an award-winning teacher of biology and chemistry in the system, as well as a top administrator. Under his leadership, the Uintah Basin program has become the flagship of outreach higher education centers throughout Utah. Hartman has won many honors, including USU's President's Diversity Award in 1996 and the Professional Educator Award in 1992 from the Utah Association of Adult and Continuing Education. He serves on a number of civic committees and since 1992 has been president of the LDS Church's Vernal Utah Glines Stake. He and his wife, the former Arsenath Snow, have six children and three grandchildren.