I'm Renee Fox and I teach geology at
Snow College. About 30 years ago, I guess
I'll have to be honest, I got off the
plane to interview here and I swore
I had to get this job. Here you have a
teacher who knows your name and you're
going to be able to ask questions and
get help with things like that. Utah is a
geology wonderland and the geology right
here at Snow College is incredibly diverse
and incredibly unique. Here students are
on at least one or two field trips a
semester and that might sound like fun
but the reality is that you learn
geology out in the field.
My experience in the geology
 department at Snow College,
we did a lot of different field
excursions over really fun. One of them
we went to Grand Staircase National
Monument and we got to do a dinosaur
excavation with paleontologist Doctor Alan
Titus. It was really great to just be out
in the field and with your friends and
it felt less like a class and more like
just something fun that you're doing
with people who love doing it with you.
It was great, we found how to source gold
which is incredible because that's
something that just doesn't normally
happen. You don't get that
experience at other colleges.
Consistently Snow College students
when they transfer
to the University of Utah,
or Utah State, or SUU all of those
institutions that the students report
back to me that they not only feel well
prepared that they feel better prepared
than the students who started at those schools
and going into my classes
at Snow College the professor said the
first in class this is going to be more
of a you know graduate level class and
you're going to tons of hard stuff, it's
going to it's not going to be easy, but
it will prepare you for your graduate
school and the classes they weren't easy
at Snow but they helped me develop study
techniques that I learned in classes
like mineralogy or petrology or
different class. Classes that I take at Utah State
that no one else has
been exposed to but I had been exposed
to it at Snow early 
and so it's greatly prepared me
for taking classes on higher level.
