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Show Local student enrolled in WICHE program Sixteen Utah students are now attending schools of veterinary veter-inary medicine in other Western West-ern states under a special low-cost low-cost tuition plan supervised by the Western Interstate Commission Com-mission for Higher Education, (WICHE) with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, and 23 students stu-dents from other Western states are attending the University Uni-versity of Utah Collgee of Medicine under the same program. pro-gram. Ten Utah students are attending at-tending the College of Veterinary Veter-inary Medicine at Colorado State University and five students stu-dents including Milton Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Beck of this city, are enrolled in Washington State. Dr. Arthur D. Browne, director di-rector of the Utah Coordinating Coordinat-ing Council for Higher Education Educa-tion and WICHE Commissioner for Utah, said, "The student exchange program is a two- ior uian, saia, ine student exchange program is a two-way two-way street for Utah. We are able to send students to universities uni-versities elsewhere and also help train students from other states. "The University of Utah's College of Medicine has 23 WT CHE students. Reimbursements made to Utah by these students' stu-dents' home states totals $46, 000 this year. "The Utah legislature appropriated appro-priated $19,200 for the training train-ing of students we send to veterinary vet-erinary schools in other states." "Under the WICHE Student Exchange Program," Doctor Browne explained, "schools of medicine, dentistry, dental hygiene, hy-giene, and veternary medicine in the West contract through the WICHE office to admit qualified students from states which ' have no professional schools in these fields. As a 'sending state' Utah certifies that the student is an eligible resident. When he is accepted, he pays' the regular tuition .charged by the school to residents resi-dents of its state, and Utah pays the school a fee which helps cover the out-of-pocket cost to the institution. |