Show REPORTS RoE PORTS of the commission to investigate duplication of work in the agricultural college 1 of utah and the university of utah 1906 from laist st issue E a president combination would at once save the salary ot of one president it would save much valuable time of the head ot of tile the institution since the necessity on his part of lobbying for special appropriations would bei bed obviated to say nothing of the needless waste ot of time of legislators it would permit him to attend more strictly to the internal and external work of the school thus increasing its efficiency A professor ot of agriculture with a slight addition to his salary would be willing to assume the responsibilities I 1 ties of supervision of that department and could be made dean which alone would mean a saving ol of more than b professors instructors specialist and assistants in the department of instruction there would also bo be a great saving the sub com cittee of the commission on visiting the schools found the classes ot of college grade to be small numbering for the most part from fi om one to fifteen students in the agricultural college the funds drawn upon tor for the payment of all professors instructors and assistants aye are as follows state appropriation federal appropriation experimental station ap atlon interest on land fund specialists and assistants in agri agricultural work vork draw from the entire fund this represents york work that is not duplicated to any great extent in the university except in bacteriology zoology and chemistry botany and horticulture where there is some duplication it will be proved further that by combination there will be a saving in salaries of the difference between this amount and the total amount in salaries by combination a saving cart can be made sufficiently large to cover t the tie salaries of some of the teachers of cooking sewing carpentry iron work and some other subjects of the high school such as at algebra 1st ast by dropping all ail grade work heretofore taught in the agricultural college 2nd and by combining Som bining the cooking sewing woodwork woodwork and ironwork with the normal formal and engineering schools 3 ard 3rd rd by eliminating from the university iver sity the preparatory college course course and giving only tile the short courses in domestic science and arts commercial mechanic arts and agriculture by saving some of the money needed for apparatus which need combination will relieve thus the saving in n salaries here will eally amount to the following will also be saved in c Secret secretary arv and ossi assistant stant to board ol of trustees d registrar ar c e librarian jan r secretary to the prest Pr cst g clerk in book store and stenographer to see sec li supt bupt of buildings 1 head janitor j sight night watchman 1 Is other laborers ift n addition to the regular employees which appear in the above table student assistants are employed in the laboratories on in janitorial work the compensation rangi ranging ng from 13 1312 to 15 cents per hour presidents kerrs kerra report page S thus it article X makes clear the tour four points above there is a saving in the salaries of 0 employees of at least 47 SUBJECTS the duplication ot of subjects in the two institutions institutions is and of necessity must be very great both schools today are arc offering from one to ten and even more courses in the following foli owing subjects english h elo curion german spanish latin history sociology law surveying drawing physics woodwork wood work ironwork iron work chemistry geology mineralogy logy botany physiology bacteriology art physical education anatomy sewing cooking civil government algebra geometry trigonometry calculus hydraulics music electricity foundry work and various branches of civil and mechanical engineering etc etar the that agrenot are not duplicated are some of the subjects of agriculture in the agricultural college and greek philosophy education and mining in the university of utah it if the summer schools are considered subjects in psychology and education are given in the agricultural college COURSES the number oc students named in each line in this table represents the total on abagis of three years of high school work for entrance to college and the information was secured at the time when the schools had the greatest attendance university of utah feb 9 1906 students arts and science A B arts and medicine A B III civil engineering B 13 S 4 mechanical engineering B S 4 L electrical engineering 13 S 22 chemical engineering B S 4 mining engineering B D S I 1 1 9 I 1 normal diploma or A B total agricultural college feb 10 1906 students general science B D S 9 civil eng mechanical eng 13 1 1 domestic science B S 6 commerce B S 9 total 50 it will be observed that the numbers for U of U and 50 tor for A C U represent the college students in course for a degree who were in attendance on the dates given special students graduates and others entering later are not enumerated as on page 1 ii IT of this report this table it will be understood serves lie purpose merely of our estimate of duplication in courses and does not enter into tile the calculation of cost per capita although the slightly reduced figures would not affect the general result here are fifty students in the agricultural ri college most of whom are taking work which is given in the university to show that these could be handled without extra cost it is only necessary to state that last year the university had college st students U while this year 4 64 attended this is an all increase of 87 above the pre previous violis year and two or three hundred more might have been accommodated within extra provision so fa far r as buildings are arc concerned the number 50 quoted in the tables however could be easily distributed tri buted among the various courses and cla classes ses without any additional expense preparatory SCHOOLS both schools have preparatory departments each of which is almost duplec duplicate ate of the other and so tar far as they are preparatory to college work are complete duplicates the high school work however from its very nature must be duplication this cannot be avoided with schools of that grade and these in turn will be duplicates largely of the high schools established in other cities and counties while it is agreed that high schools and public schools should be multiplied and distributed and carried to the homes of the people throughout the state this should not be done with colleges and universities the growth of the high school idea throughout the counties of the state would be materially strengthened it if all preparatory w work ork should bo be eliminated irom from both institutions ons except that given in the mechanic ic arts domestic science and arts commerce and agriculture which should be continued and made a part of trie the normal training school at tile the university ve ver sity ralty this serve erre the purpose ot of the a school better than the preparatory work they ire are doing now and would aid in developing these lines throughout the communities of the state combination would affect a saving here of at leastle least 13 00 it is argued rg aed that sometimes that it t the agricultural college were combined billed with the university there would not 1 bes i t i the one school as there L h tie arenow are nu w I 1 in n the two this no doubt would be true of hish high school students of 0 whom the institutions are largely composed but the university proper would have more students in consequence of 0 its increased efficiency srann students who now so go east and vast west would be attracted by our own state institution probably however in the aggregation there ardmore are more students in the two schools schoola than there would be in the one combined school for each locality furnishes certain students who would not go 0 o elsewhere this then Is an argument lor for separation but it the money expended for the preparatory work at the two institutions were applied to the maintenance of high schools throughout the state at least ten times the benefit would be realized zeil to be continued |