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Show SUCCE Academic Program Has Outrun Financial Support The Southeastern Utah Center for Continuing Education (SUCCE) has been serving the educational educa-tional needs of Southeast Utah for the past six years, providing a vari- ety of classes for those interested in furthering their education. It now appears that the spring quarter program, anticipated by SUCCE, is seriously endangered, as existing funds allocated for fiscal year 74-75 are nearly exhausted. This has occured largely due to rising transportation costs which are exceeding exceed-ing the general inflationary inflation-ary spiral. If additional revenue isn't provided soon, the program will have to be curtailed bv 12 to 23 of its present operation for the coming spring quarter, sharply limiting the number of class available. The cost of transporting instructors instruct-ors to Moab from the Utah State University campus has finally reached rea-ched a point so far beyond be-yond that anticipated, at the time budget allocations alloca-tions were being made, that such flights will have to be sharply limited. Current winter quarter enrollment consists of a total of 25 classes, which is double that a year ago. With nearly 300 total to-tal students enrolled, this (Cont. on Page A3) Problems for SUCCE (Cont. from Page Al) makes an average of 11.6 students per class. Student Stu-dent response to classes in Southeastern Utah communities which now include Monticello, Montezuma Mon-tezuma Creek, Green River, Ri-ver, Price and Moab, is relatively high as enrollment en-rollment per population is 2 above the national average in similar programs. pro-grams. Nationally, 1 is considered good response re-sponse within a given market area. It is therefore there-fore evident that a great number of people are going go-ing to be effected if existing exist-ing funds are not given a sufficient boost to carry SUCCE through the last quarter of the fiscal year. According to Dr. "H" K. Hancock, Director ot SUCCE, the local program pro-gram is now the strongest strong-est it has every been. It is continually growing in numbers (of courses and students) as well as expanding it's services into a variety of other academic functions. As an example, during the past year SUCCE and the Utah State University College of Education have cooperated to initiate a Masters Level Program in Education which is enabling en-abling local teachers in San Juan, Grand and Emery Em-ery counties to complete up to 18 quarter hours of college work toward their M.S. degrees while they continue to teach. Grand County High School seniors are also benefited by SUCCE as college credit is now awarded to twelfth grade students enrolled in a series of mathematics, chemistry, and Spanish classes. There are presently pre-sently other class series which will also be interrupted inter-rupted if the schedule for spring quarter is curtailed. cur-tailed. Other facets of continuing contin-uing education have been added to the SUCCE program pro-gram including the "Ascent "As-cent of Man" series being aired on Statewide Educational Educ-ational TV, which can be viewed for credit as a classroom or Independent Independ-ent Study option. The summer workshop course concept which began be-gan last summer, gives the students the opportunity oppor-tunity to partake of other activities during the warmer war-mer months while still keeping up with their studies. stu-dies. All summer classes were shortened from a span of eight to ten weeks (meeting one night per week) to a period of two weeks, meeting daily. SUCCE has played a vital role in enhancing and extending the educations educa-tions of many in the community. com-munity. Director Hancock Han-cock is extremely pleased pleas-ed with the growth and progress of the program, although he points out that all educational programs are currently faced with the problem of "making ends meet" as we are all at present. |