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Show SUSC Council approves several items .. The Southern Utah State ..College Institutional Council last week gave its approval to the reorganization of the academic vice presidency department, the Outreach Program and the construction con-struction of the Tanner Fountain. Terry Alger, the new academic vice president, presented io the council for approval the break down diagram of how he would like his department organized. According to Alger there is a need for another assistant academic vice president to adequately cover the different areas under his jurisdiction . and to relieve Pauline Nelson, the only current assistant to Alger, from some of her obligations Explaining the change, Alger noted that prior to. Ralph Starr's acceptance of the MX coordinator position, there were two assistants. During the last few months Nelson "carried the full load." Countering concern expressed by the Council members for the money required for this new position, Alger said the money is already available. "We will use existing money. I have a strong feeling that any money we take from grants we use for educational purposes." Also commenting on the money, Nelson said, "we are very proud of activities we've done with federal money." Alger went on to explain possi!,'.. reorganizations of the Outreach Program offered by SUSC, suggesting a possible combination program with Snow College and Utah State University. Univer-sity. The suggested combination would have one person represent all three schools in the Outreach Program with credit hours logged into the institution who taught the course. "We have an obligation to serve the people in the outlying areas," Alger told the Council, which gave a vote of confidence to the program. In other business The Council accepted a bid from Gower Construction, a local company, to construct the Tanner Fountain. The fountain is a gift to SUSC from O.C. Tanner who has built several fountains on campuses around the State. The estimated cost of the fountain is about $90,000. The Council made it clear no school funds have gone " towards the construction con-struction of the fountain. Sterling Church, dean of students, reported on student enrollment indicating in-dicating that out of the 2,080 which have registered, 2,017 have paid tuition. "The head count is up, but actual revenue is down," said Church, who added the school was down approximately ap-proximately "50 non-resident students, but the part time student enrollment is up." |