Learning Integrity from the President

Dr. Gary L. Carlston, a former badger and President of Snow College, serves our school faithfully and with great success. President Carlston has multiple degrees from Utah State University and Brigham Young University. His entire career is directing, leading, and caring for public and higher education. His experience and example more than qualify him as someone we can learn from.

Be active and involved. By being involved, you create relationships that can create unexpected opportunities for you to grow in skills and character.
Integrity comes in two parts. When most people think of integrity, they think of someone who is honest and truthful. Although that is part of what integrity is, President Carlston adds that integrity is leaving the right impression. You can tell the truth and still leave a bad impression. Leaving a good impression is important in maintaining relationships.
Have integrity with you all the time. It is easy to compromise your integrity. Remember that when you compromise your integrity, you can also compromise the integrity of whole organizations. After all, distrust can be very expensive and can spread quickly. President Carlston compares integrity to magnets. People with integrity will line up the way that magnets do, but if integrity is abandoned you can feel the magnets repel.
Be consistent in your leadership positions. Keep consistence in the way that you lead. It is important to set emotions aside and let integrity play an integral part in the authority you hold. Doing these things consistently will help make the difficult decisions in any situation.
Lead by doing what you believe is right. Each leadership position will have different kinds of power to lead by. Leaders should know when to reward and when to punish. These things should be done only when necessary and with consistency. After all things, do what you really believe is the right thing to do.
 

President Carlston will be retiring from Snow College in January. He has used his own integrity and leadership skills to guide our college in a respectful and successful way. By taking his advice, we are bettering who we were yesterday and turning ourselves into the person that leads and lives with integrity of our own.

 

For more tips or advice, visit the Snow College Career Center behind the Business Building in Ephraim, or in the Washburn Building room 155 in Richfield.