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Show PJlh's SUCCE Continuing Ed. Center Bmhe All Records Bwin 197S By Ruth Williams The growth of Southeastern Utah Center for Continuing Education continued steadily through 1975 as more and more area residents participated partici-pated in the expanding program. pro-gram. The quarter enrollment for the fall of 1975 stabalized with 430 individual registrations, the "best yet" in terms of total student involvement in the six year history of SUCCE, according accor-ding to Dr. H. K. Hancock, Director. Academic courses were offered that quarter in Moab, Price, Monticello and Montezuma Creek. A total of 34 classes was fielded for college credit. This does not include 3 classes offered by TV andor newspaper. The class size ranged from 6 to 30 students per class, averaging 12.5 students. The age of students ranged from 14 years to 70. As an indication of the diversity of the academic credit classes in 1975, they varied from Math 001 to Education Administration 674. High School Involved Dr. Hancock said, "During 1975 we have continued to work to achieve maximum involvement of 12th grade public high school students in our Utah State University credit classes." As the fall quarter closed, a total of 50 12th grade students had successfully completed USU credit classes during 1975. Credit earned per student ranged from 3 to 21 hours. "We like to think that the contact with Utah State University Uni-versity which these courses have provided is responsible for the fact that so many of these students have elected to attend USU for the on-campus continuation of their educations," educa-tions," said Dr. Hancock. Also, influencing decisions for further academic exposure was the fact that SUCCE enabled many to conveniently take advantage of the CLEP test, the SAT test and the ACT exams. Additional aspects of their testing program include June and January administrations of the Graduate Record Exam. After much correspondence, contract negotiations and many ma-ny necessary approvals, the Moab center is awaiting arrival of the GED test materials (the high school equivalency exam). SUCCE is currently committed commit-ted to Grand County School District to provide Utah State University courses augmenting augment-ing the current 12th grade curriculum with on-going programs pro-grams in language, mathematics, mathemat-ics, science and the social sciences. ' Serving the Needs "During the past year we have been successful in fielding specific classes which appeared to offer potential as serving the educational needs of area business, industry and government," continued Dr. Hancock. "Among these have been: a series of four classes in real estate leading to the State Real Estate Broker's Exam; classes in City and Regional Planning and Problems in state and Local Government to which local community leaders and agency personnel have responded. Numerous other classes in Marketing, business management, accounting and income tax accounting, technical techni-cal and report writing and others have served to bring our operation to the favorable attention of a wide variety of community and business leaders." lead-ers." SUCCE continued to work to build the level of interest in the off-campus Masters Level Program in Education which was initiated with the support of Utah State University College of Education. They hope to extend this program to CarbonEmery County Districts. Dis-tricts. Numerous individual courses, cours-es, workshops and series of courses have gained student support over the past year from southeast Utah public school teachers and administrators. adminis-trators. Hancock said, "The opportunity to work as closely as we do with the educational community in Southeast Utah has enabled SUCCE to help teachers achieve their educational educa-tional objectives without the necessity of their spending excessive time and travel in L--. '. .. x r w ; i ,4 A V; t t iv A V" Southeastern Utah Center for Continuing Education Director, Dr. H. K. Hancock, and his secretary, Mrs. Jan Gilliland, are busy with students and schedules as a new term gets underway this week. Enrollment in the variety of courses offered through the Center continues to increase as SUCCE grows. doing so." The Center is again involved in the supervision and evaluation of student teachers in the local school districts. Dr. Hancock felt that the summer of 1975 was a bit slow. But that was normal due to their continued resolve to schedule only two-week workshops work-shops during summer sessions. ses-sions. Enrollments were equal to the summer of 1974. Variety of Events During the last half of the year, SUCCE has been working work-ing closely with USU Media Center personnel to bring a wide variety of special events, "how to" presentations, etc. to the area through the facilities of Moab's Town TV, via color video tapes produced on campus. In addition to the twice weekly presentations, USU television presentations, the Center has been bringing the series in Quality Parenting to local TV audiences from the USU Department of ' Family and Child Development. The American Issues Forum series and Classic Theatre series served to round out the television offerings , the past quarter. During 1975 the Center became involved in the agri- cultural management of a local farm and orchard in which USU Cooperative Extension Division was interested as an experimental or demonstration project. The project materialized material-ized and locally, SUCCE is no longer regarded as a purveyor of academic excellence only. SUCCE growth has been so rapid that they were forced to find supplemental financial aid during the past year. According to Dr. Hancock, v "We are attempting where possible to spark our academic program with a bit of the unique including a music offering (for credit) which we're calling "Bicentennial Chorus," a series of Navajo language classes, karate for the more energetic, and during the summer we were able to work with a Kanab-based Kanab-based river running outfit to arrange a (for credit) river trip and photographic expedition through either Cataract Canyon Can-yon or Grand Canyon; that through the Brigham Young University Youth Leadership Education Program, we were able to provide leadership for a group of Southeastern Utah young people to learn a bit of self reliance and some survival skills in the Canyonlands Country..." And he continued to expound on the offerings of Southeastern Utah Center for Continuins Education, Moab. .. - - " |
