DSC President's Colleagues Meeting

Dixie State College of Utah will host its third President’s Colleagues of DSC meeting of the 2012-13 academic year, featuring a presentation on DOCUTAH by festival artistic director and DSC Assistant Professor of Communication Phil Tuckett.

The DOCUTAH Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival was created in 2010, and in the its three-year run, the festival has attracted more than 800 film submissions from over 60 countries. As part of the presentation, Tuckett will show several clips from documentaries featured from this year’s festival.

Tuckett, a Dixie College alum, currently heads the DSC communication department’s Center for Media Innovation, is a 38-year veteran of NFL Films, for which he worked as a producer, director, editor, and cameraman, and was named Vice President of Special Projects in 1982. During his tenure, he won 30 Emmy Awards for shows like “Football America,” “The 100 Yard Universe,” “Autumn Ritual,” and “Lost Treasures of NFL Films.”

Tuckett has also produced non-sports related programming like “Blood from a Stone” for the History Channel, “Faces of Evil” for TNT, along with music videos for a wide variety of artists including B.B. King, Santana, Def Leppard, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

The President’s Colleagues of Dixie State College, founded nearly 20 years ago by former DSC President Dr. Douglas Alder, is a group of retired professors and other professionals who live mostly in the St. George and Washington County area. Dr. Alder, who also started an Honors Program at DSC, organized the Colleagues as a way to increase academic activities on campus.

The Colleagues meet together once a month during the academic year to hear presentations from each other and/or invited guests. The next Colleagues meeting is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 7th, 2013, and will feature a presentation entitled “Aging Gracefully” by DSC Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Michael Rahilly.