Show w Area Vocational Centers Center Draw Leaders Leaders' Concern Utah's nine higher education dents Joined forces this last week to bring to the Hoard of 01 Higher Education what they called called- deep concern over the creation of at area vocational centers as as' as training centers for pOst post high high school students WE BELl BELIEVE EVE that this activity duplicates duplicates dup dup- the work of our community colleges col cot leges and Is Is one of the principal causes of the significant loss of enrollment in those colleges and the general increase in the cost of education per student in the state they said In 1971 Utah Legislature authorized the centers In Richfield Roosevelt Moab and aM Smithfield to award post secondary post credit These centers centers' arc are governed bythe by bythe by bythe the State Board Doard of Education and have haven n no direct contact With the coordination function to be exercised over post second dary programs by the D Board ard of Higher ed education c tIon chairman promised his committees committee's recommendation recommendation re re- commendation at the August m meeting THE HE PRESIDENTS said that the extensive extensive ex ex- development of this program under un der a separate administrative board I tends to to- frustrate the concept on ept of or coordination co co- ordination of the states state's post high school r r n a t I edu education atlon efforts and makes it impossible r U for forthe the State Board ofil atlon n ifs to to carry try out but the legislative mandate mandat of 9 1 1 minimizing duplication and making the states state's higher education effort more ef ef- k l and more mor efficient ent II i In Yn response to the presidents presidents' J concern r P Peter ter Wd W. W Billings hoard Board chairman said it would uld be taken up as as-a as a major agenda t item In the nex next Board meeting August t 1 I in Cedar Ceder City IN N filA MAY Y an an ad hoc committee was f r selected Board selected the study the particular par problems problems' of Utah's of Utah's 1 junior I colleges One area 0 of their study a 1 area has been the junior college area voca voca- signal center relationship Merrill MerriU J J. J Ulett Roosevelt volt th the ad hoc oc tee S |