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Show Page A10 - THE HERALD, Provo. Utah. electronic technology accredited By MYRNA TRAUNTVEIN Herald Correspondent SPANISH FORK A character development class at Spanish Fork Intermediate School is a good idea but the Nebo School Board would like a study committee to review the curriculum. Lee Hill, principal of the school, said the school was following the state board of education guidelines in teaching the class. The class, said Hill, was teaching ethics. Recently President George Bush's televised message requesting youth to avoid drug abuse was shown to all students at the school via the school's new communications sys - The Electronics Technology partment of Utah Valley Communi- ty College has received accreditaDe- from the 20, 1989 Nebo So study character development class UVCC's tion Friday, October technology Accreditation Commission of toe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for the associate of applied science degree. The AAS degree of the electronics technology program received TAG ABET accreditation for satisfying certain educational criteria. enth grade are registered for health and students in the sixth grade are registered for life skills. All of the said Hill. classes are Dave Huff, teacher at the school, said topics so far this year had tem. "We realize our responsibility," said Hill. The social studies department at Brigham Young University is exic-tie- d a school in Utah has a class where ethics are part of the curriculum, said Hill. "I don't think another school in the state has an program," he said. Students are not required to take the class, although all are scheduled for one period. If the student or parents request they not be part of the class students are allowed to transfer out without question. Students in the eighth grade are registered for the character development class, students in the sev inter-relate- d, been peer pressure, and solving conflicts at home. He said, the class was "teaching mother, the American flag, and apple pie." Students learn to ask themselves: self-estee- on-goi- 1. do? What is the reponsible thing to 2. What is the right thing to do? Students learn everyone has problems, said Huff. There is a critical need to teach character development ance and behavior. andlife skills, said Hill. With the different family styles of today and with mothers and fathers both working outside the home, chidren needed the basic values of society. Such things as honesty and integrity needed to be taught. One parent at the meeting questioned the teaching of ethics. "Whose values are being taught?" she asked. Hill said the question had been wrestled with but honesty is honesty and integrity is integrity. "Everybody teaches values." Just by walking into school a teacher taught values by appear Some worksheets were not good because they imposed choices for questions which could not always be answered with the multiple choice answers supplied, objected parents. "Searching for Yourself," said parents at the meeting, was not a good teaching tool However,' better material will be used in the future because new materials have been found. A study committee will review the curriculum for the the charac- ter development, life skills and health classes. three member investigating A team from ABET visited UVCC in Octobei 1988 and reviewed samples of student work for aU required courses, both Electronics and general education, the textbooks, data on past graduates, examined the To all women: laboratory equipment available, and interviewed students, faculty and staff. "UVCC is one of only a few community colleges in the west to receive this accreditation. We are very pleased that our electronics technology program has received this national recognition for the quality education available at UVCC," said Kerry D. Romesburg, UVCC president. nn Receiving the accreditation is the culmination of a three-yeprocess. The electronics faculty and college staff put in many hours of work, compiling all the information needed by the ABET investigation team. "We wanted to prove to the students, community, industry and administration that we have a quality program. ar Open until 10PM 7 days a week Tanner receives Fulbright Prices good Saturday, October 21 through Sunday, October 22, 1989 If you're not going hunting this weekend, here's a great idea: Saturday and Sunday, aim for Freddy's and treat I) Stephen L Tanner, an English professor at Brigham Young University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for the 1989-9- 0 academic year by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. 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