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Show Community Leadership Training Meet to Open in Cedar City to anlyze the community to be able to plan for change and to take action. Above all, the community com-munity leader needs to be sensitive sensi-tive to others and to the complexities com-plexities of human behavior. The University of Utah Extension Ex-tension Division has further information in-formation for those interested in attending, and a very limited number of partial scholarships are available. They are awarded on the basis of the trainee's opportunity op-portunity to use the leadership training in his organization or community. The National Training Laboratories Labo-ratories is also sponsoring a Human Hu-man Relations Training Laboratory Labora-tory which runs simultaneously with the Community Labs. Southern Utah will be the site of the third annual Laboratories Labora-tories in Community Leadership Training August 12-24. The sessions, ses-sions, sponosred by the National Training Laboratories in Washington, Wash-ington, D.C., will be held at the College of Southern Utah. It is the first community lab to be held in the western states, and the University of Utah is proud to be a co-sponsor, with two members of its own Bureau of Community Development staff participating. Dr. J. Weldon Moffitt of the University bureau will act as dean of one of the community labs, and Dr. Edward Moe of Michigan State University will chairman the entire event. Dr. Moe comes to the University of Utah this fall as the new director of the University bureau. Trainees will arrive at Cedar City from all parts of the country coun-try and abroad to learn about community organization and development. de-velopment. They will come with special interests in urban renewal, re-newal, planning and housing schools, health, welfare, recreation, recre-ation, youth, the aging and economic eco-nomic development. Participating in community affairs engages more man hours and more dollars than any other peacetime activity, but for the most part, it is approached with out training in the skills involved. in-volved. We would not run our businesses, our churches, or our schools without trained leaders but we seldom train for community com-munity leadership. Dr. Moffitt says participants in the southern Utah program will use laboratory methods for learning about themselves and others, lectures and discussions will provide information to reinforce re-inforce insights, and they will be wrapped up in simulated community situations demanding skill in decision making. "The University of Utah's Bureau of Community Development Develop-ment is working on similar projects proj-ects in the state to continue this type of program, but the Cedar City workshap is more intensive, Dr. Moffitt said, also praising the work of Richard Gillies of CSU, who is coordinating the Cedar City training labs. The National Laboratories feel that the community leader needs to know what it takes to be an effective member and leader of groups. He needs to know how human resources are discovered and used. He needs to be able |
