Show Consortium to aid educational quality a Pioneering tends to bring out folks neighbor!) helping quality in Thu is true even when the frontier line for minds to cross and the 1S "folks" are members stitutions The newly-create- of large in- Northern Consortium for Higher Rockies Education is a case m point a It is supported through M3 000 grant from the Fund for of Post Secondary-EducatioImprovement from the U S Depart education and ment of Health Welfare group of 13 Intermountain universities and colleges that are lacing some of the All the same outpost problems The consortium is a enrollments of under schools serve rural or 10 000 and most fairlv isolated populations Many in energy impacted are located areas of the West which are hae which have a growing fast and social of multitude problems related to gmwth Acting as resource institutions for the Rot kv Mountain project are I'tah Slate University ltoise State University Idaho Stale University Pilot and Welier State College schools are the College of Idaho Dixie College Carroll College State College Lewis-Clar- Mon Elder Lee to speak at FAC fireside tana Slate University Northwest Sheridan Community College Snow College and College Western Wyoming College “Idaho Montana Utah and Wyoming form one of the most sparsley populated regions of the said Nick Kastmond country associate director of instructional at Utah Stale development University and director of the consortium “Its also a relatively poor region Over 10 percent of the households of the area have incomes below the federal poverty line These two facts have enormous implications for higher education Kastmond said these sHial and economic fails of life on the new front ier mean t hat new edu at tonal iethniques often make their appearance in Hot kv Mountain schools several years after fing introduced in schools in other parts of t he nat ion I or example 79 percent of the regions educational institutions Mill have no in service training Amt said Kastmond faculty this when instructional develop ment has been an established fact of academia for almost a decade The consortium hopes to rectify that situation f USU he purpose of the consortium is to identify organize and utilize the resources of the region to improve instruction throughout the area said Kastmond Our goals are to institute in service programs at all schools to create an exchange of training personnel and actual materials among the s hools Kastmond said the use of con I ' sortia to solve educational problems is Incoming widespread the country declining enrollments and steady state budgets (situations the West “Throughout has always faced! are forcing schools to band together to he said maximize resources We estimate that over MMKM) students will lienefit bv int reased excellence in instruc lion as a result of t he consortium haMimmd said if t‘11 — tii the most prestigious awards given by (ambrulg University has tieen won bv i tih State University history professor Norman Jones The Archbishop Crarnm-- r Prize m Kcclesiastiral History is given only when a ('andridge graduate a work produces judged to have outstanding merit in the field of h hurc history Jones award is the first presented in more than 10 veers rh The prize which includes a award of 100 pounds and public at ion was giv en to Jones for his 100 fmge manuscript 'Turlia merit and Settlement of Religion !'V The work is a study of the c i It till 18x10 ri le a Nav ajo Several notable historians m eluding ( ambridge Dixie l‘r ifr of Kc lesiastu ai Hintory (mrdon Hupp have rec eiv rd the pr ie Jones recently joined the UsU faculty after completing his tine (oral atudira at ( ambrulge c 9 wallet 2-5- x7 for $37M Includes retouching rumi Walcoma back — It was without you1 & folders offer good until January 10 1979 shm-ptek- phone George P Ds a memier of the First Quorum of Seventies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter da Saints will speak at a fireside Fndav at 7 p m in Arts Center Ureal Hnlain VALENTINE SPECIAL tmti Itr’k li Wii the Anglican Church was legislated into existem e If the manuscript gain ac ceptance a nong historian it wU force the revision of the current political and religious history of hli7alethn F nglarid The mmua ripl will br published in the St udic in History Series of the Royal Historical Society of wav in which KIRK PHOTOGRAPHY i sis: prof wins Cambridge award ne of 563-515- 0 RS the USU Fine born and raiscsi on Navajo Reservation is the first Indian to serve as a (teneral authority of the Mormon Church He has been serving since Oct I a 1975 lee receives! 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