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Show 22? IF IL IE J M IE EE DE(MI CTM By SANDRA TELFORD Chronicle Staff Writer Tesident James C. Fletcher : declared war on Utah edu-ion's edu-ion's "quiet crisis" with his Ten-Year plan to improve iier education. Tie President in explaining the sis said, "If the University ers, out State will falter too, I we will end up buing a per-nent per-nent way-station between the st Coast and Denver, both nomically and educational- "he Plan explained to the anil an-il faculty breakfast Monday lesigned to combat the drastic nomic and social challenges ich will put the State of Utah 1 its entire system of higher ication to severe tests, ipeaking for the President, '. Edward W. Clyde, Chair-;n Chair-;n of the Board of Regents, d, "The state must invest re money into Utah educa tion. Status quo will not do." A pamphlet given to all the faculty members, shows the University Uni-versity of California appropriates appropri-ates $2,649.03 per student, the University of Idaho $1,296.94 while the University of Utah appropriates $624.87 per year, the lowest of all Western State Universities. Governor Calvin L. Rampton, in a statement following the speech, said he recognized the "quiet crisis" developing in Utah's education and he and the legislature intended to do all possible to remedy the situation. Utah, at the present time, contributes con-tributes $13,796,000 to the University Uni-versity while non-State funds exceed $34,426,000. Mr. Clyde pointed out that last year the increased spending generated in the State's economy econo-my by the University of Utah approached $30,000,000, and this year President Fletcher esti-. esti-. mated it to reach 40 to 60 mil- lion dol'ars. Mr. Clyde appealed to the faculty members to continue developing de-veloping Utah's "brain trust." Utah can bring in industries that depend on qualified individuals indi-viduals "even though the State may have problems attracting others which need to be nearer to distribution markets." He reaffirmed the necessity for exciting graduate and undergraduate under-graduate programs. "The University Uni-versity must pursue those programs pro-grams which make the greatest contributions to the needs per dollar invested by the University Univer-sity and not simply pursue programs pro-grams that have the largest dollar volume." "When money is available for a new man, or a member of the faculty resigns," exp'ained the Board Chairman, "this should ba regarded as the opportune time to make major advancements advance-ments in the development of a department or program and not simply a necessary step toward relieving a burdensome teaching teach-ing load for the other members of the department." He cited as an example the case of one department de-partment which had two of its most senior professors, and one ' almost as able", resign within a six-month period.' Through the "superb" : effort of other members of the department two new professors of "much greater" great-er" ability and reputation than those who resigned were hired. '.'Such efforts can, and must, be an integral part of the responsibility respon-sibility of each faculty mem-j mem-j ber," he concluded. |