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Show Progress, February Retirements will be an issue for BYU By CHRISTI C. EVANS Lee said he doesn't anticipate any great expansion in school programs in the future, adding he does not measure BYU's progress by the addition of new programs. Progress should be measured by the things the school can do better, he said. After assuming office in 1989, Lee said one of the first things he did was determine how many faculty would be retiring soon. "The faculty is the heart of this institution," he said. While it will be a great period of change, finding new faculty members will also be an opportunity, Lee said. No tuition hikes are in the foreseeable future as well, he said. "BYU tuition continues to be probably the best private school bargain in the country" Lee said. "One of our objectives is to help all of those who graduate from this school appreciate that." The principal funds of BYU come from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. However, "It is apparent if BYU is going to have the kind of university we want to have, we're going to have to depend on alumni and friends," Lee said. Most of what Lee accomplished during 1989 involved "people kinds of changes," he said. "My first objective when I came in was to have an organization that was compatible with the university and with my personal style," Lee said. Fund raising will be important in the coming years, he said. Alumni have an obligation to help carry on the BYU tradition of quality education by contributing to the cost of education, particularly since their education costs were subsidized bv the LDS Church, Lee said. Lee foresees future problems in 1990 and beyond with keeping the admissions system fair. "With an enrollment ceiling, we're only able to accommodate an ever dwindling percentage of people that would like to attend here," he said. BYU's strength to carry it into the future is its general education program combined with its religious education, Lee said. This is what makes BYU unique and attracts students to its campus, he said. Lee hopes to continue promoting a good relationship between BYU and the Provo community, he said. "For decades, it (BYU) was kept alive by local church and community leaders. We've never lost appreciation for that fact," he said. BYU's enrollment is currently set 26,000, but the school is permitted to go slightly above that. "It's never been easy to control it down to the last person," Lee said. at The school will also have to look at a way to control evening school enrollment. Evening school has "evolved from the traditional to something very similar to day school," he said, and the program has seen increases in enrollment Herald Photo Trent Nelson BYU President Rex E. Lee contemplates the school's future. Univ. of Phoenix offers alternatives meeting. Real learning takes place, based on practical experience. The Herald Staff Writer Most times men and women in teachers are active in their field of the working world have neither business, not just instructors. But it is more than talking. There time or finances to further their is much "doing", required to comfrustrateven and more education, ing, they can't seem to fit their plete the courses. To begin with, students who enschedule to that of the schools. But there is an alternative. The roll at the University of Phoenix University of Phoenix is a business are encouraged to have at least one school run by business people, with year of college to their credit. This the goal of helping business people helps them get a good start. The University offers a full range of accomplish great things. Begun in Phoenix, Arizona over undergraduate and graduate degree 15 years ago, the reputation of the programs. A wide variety of school has spread and now the programs are also offered, tailor-mad- e to fit the stusome of most in has schools University the major Western metropolitan dent's needs in his her business areas. The Orem school is located field. Classes are held in the evening, at 1325 S. 800 E., and is under the direction of Craig Swenson, vice one, two or three nignts a week, or on weekends. This frees the student president. to pursue hisher career during the The school operates on the premise that people in a given field can working day hours, and still give time for quality education after the best help their with day's work is done. propeers, Every year, some 3,000 grams that differ from professionals enroll in the Unsignificantly for students those iversity's bachelors and masters fresh out of high programs in business and management. Recently a Bachelor of Scischool. To do that, ence in Nursing (BSN) program the University of n has been added, which gives even Phoenix maintains more diversity and helps prepare a strong alliance with business and EL today's nurses for tomorrow's jobs. --SI Most courses involve five four-hoIndustry Ken Justice class meetings. Participants developed undergoes strict scrutiny also form study groups made up of and review before it even reaches from 3 to 6 students who meet the classroom. In short, it is "test- outside of class to work on individued and tried," and the results make al and collective assignments. And practical application to what they attending class exciting. " As the students gather to discuss have learned is integrated in their and learn they become enthusiastic occupations. Each student is also required to about sharing their ideas, and learning how best to improve their develop a business research project working relationship with others in relevant to his her own occupation their profession. The classes are or career goal. As stated in their purposely kept small in number, so booklet outlining the classwork, .better interaction can take place. through "using the business-relate- d The classroom itself takes on the research skills acquired in the 'image of a top level management coursework, participants are able to By LYRAINE JONES non-degr- mid-care- er 9J ur plan, conduct, and evaluate a study which they themselves have designed. Participants are also able to more effectively analyze a broad of spectrum business problems using acquired quantitative skills." Also available to each student, and indeed an integral part of their instruction plan, is the University's ACCESS program. This is a home study-typ- e program. At the begin ning of the course students are given a syllabus to follow, to help them follow through with their assignments. The syllabus also contains a list of the re quirements for that particular course, and the in structor s name Bruce Bryan and phone number. The student then keeps in close contact with the instructor as he she progresses with their work. If problems arise in their studies, they simply call the instructor and discuss what can be done. This ACCESS program can also tie in with the student's computer system, making it easier to follow through. In fact, through this ACCESS tie-i- n program the University is able to give instruction on an international level, should a student need to leave the country for a time. Bruce Bryan and Ken Justice, two students at the University of Phoenix, feel that the training and interaction they receive at the school have greatly enhanced their work skills, and helped pull all their abilities together. Do they mind being called "students?" Not all, because they each feel that everyone is a. student no matter what occupation they work in, and that they are continually learning. Bryan hails from Oregon City, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page 1990s: More students, buildings UVCC in recently. Herald Staff Writer Brigham Young University will be spending the next decade replacing approximately a third of its faculty that will be reaching retirement age, said President Rex E. Lee. 25, 1990 Oregon originally and is presently working as vice president of lending services for Universal Campus Credit Union. He has worked for 12 year in the industry, and feels the training he has received from the University thus far has been invaluable in helping him with his oral skills and written communications, so necessary in his job. As he has progressed in his schooling he has seen his skills become consolidated and rounded-ou- t. He has always had a goal of obtaining a degree and this is the best way for him to achieve that goal. He feels he has learned a great deal from his fellow students is more posiand his tive. He said he was right where he wanted to be in his occupation, but wanted to refine the skills he already had and add to them. Justice is retired from the Air Force and has an extensive background in electronics. He is presently working as a test maintenance manager at Signetics. He says everything he has learned at University of Phoenix relates to his work as manager. He feels that he is now of more worth to the company, and his knowledge base is more professional. Working on his business project enables him to better track problems at work. His employer is glad he is attending the University and, according to Justice, feels he is a better employee as as result. In most cases credits earned in other educational pursuits can be transferred to the University, which is in the student's favor. The credits Justice earned at the Community College of the Air Force transferred nicely. Often times people earn credits by virtue of their life's experiences, but not formally in a school room. Through schooling at the University all this knowledge earned can be recognized. Let us help you plan for the future with sound financial protection Bv PATRICK CHRISTIAN ' Herald Staff Writer Students at Utah Valley Community College have already moved into the college's new science builiding and more new construction is expected during 1990. Val Peterson, director of relations says that the legislature has been asked for money for an expanded library. Peterson said a new residence for College President Kerry D. Romesburg is also expected to be built in 1990, and an expansion of the student center is also expected to be under construction soon. Peterson said the president's residencs is expected to be started in Spring and completed collge by fall. According to Peterson, enrollment at the college was 7,800 last fall, and that was 13 or 14 percent higher than the year before. "One of the biggest changes, has been our changing from the quarter system to the semester system," said Peterson. He said that the college is presently satisfied with being a two-ye- college, ar and said UVCC will play an ever increasing role as it gets more difficult to get into BYU. Peterson said that the change quarter to a semester system will begin this year with a special transition summer. College representatives had from a considered selling its Provo Campus to BYU, but Peterson said it now appears that the college will retain the property. r "About 68 percent of our student commute from the Provo Orem area," said Peterson. "We also had 40 countries represented last year. There are about 7,549 students at UVCC from the United States, and the Japan has the next biggest number of students at the college with 46 students. Canadian students number 35 at UVCC with Kuwait and Mexico each having 15 students and Hong Kong having 10. In addition to all the building construction last year, a new decorative water "fountain was also built. The local college was started in 1945 when then governor Herbert B. Maw signed a bill appropriating $50,000 for what was then called the Central Utah Vocational School. In 1953 the name was changed to Utah Trade Technical Institute and it was later changed to Utah Technical College at Provo. The name was changed to Utah Valley Community College in 1987. In 1946, Wilson W. Sorensen. was appointed director of the school by the Utah State Board for Vocational Education and was the chief executive officer-unti- l June 1982. ; The school's mission statement reads: "Utah Valley Community College is dedicated to providing a broad range of aca-- ; demic, vocational, technical and social opportunities and experi-- ; ences designed to encourge and assist students in attaining their! goals and maximizing their talents and potential, personally and professionally. 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