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Show . THE THUNDERBIRD SUSC Enrollment increases for summer quarter BY JAKE SHEWMAKE 1989. Carter attributed this rise to an increase in activities. The summer school program has great potential and will continue to grow because of many things such as the festivals, the conferences, increases in class offerings and the climate, he said. Praising the efforts of C. David Nyman, director of conferences and workshops, Carter said, Dave Nyman did a super job of lining up new conferences and workshops last summer. He brought in many school-relate- d professional and conferences. Carter said events like the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Highland Heritage Festival, the Utah Summer Games and the Readers Conference will continue to increase enrollment each summer. In the scholastic realm, the masters of accounting program continues to draw students here during the summer, said Carter. Other programs with high summer enrollment include teacher masters of elementary and secondary education and the reading minor. Summer school offers a number of programs also, including creative writing workshops, geology field schools and the popular chemistry sequence. rt PAGE 3 WHERE 1990-9- 1 Those students attending summer school are not d students, necessarily said Carter. About 1,200 of the 2,600 students attend classes during the year and the rest just attend summer classes, he said. About 1,100 of the 2,600 are from Utah. We get 150 to 250 students from all of the surrounding states like Nevada, California and Arizona and the rest are from all over the states. Some are even foreign exchange students, said STUDENT FEES GO year-roun- A wider variety of classes, festivals, conferences and community activities have sent summer enrollment at Southern Utah State College high. to an e According to Phillip C. Carter, associate provost for academic programs, 2,665 students attended classes, 312 more students than the summer of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990 BUILDING: $42 ATHLETICS: $16 COMPUTERS: $10 GOVERNMENT: $8.25 ACTIVITY: $6 Carter. Although there are STUDENT CENTER: $5 specialized classes offered throughout the summer, A large percentage of the classes offered are general education for the types. This accounts the large amounts of seniors and freshmen attending classes in the summer. The other largest portion of students come from the teacher education programs. To accommodate the increasing numbers of students, more summer instructors may be needed. Right now about half of the professors who teach classes during the year are also teaching in the summer and that number will probably increase, Carter said. Carter said in view of past growth, he expects the numbers to continue to grow. Eight years ago when I took over the progtam we had about 250 students and now we have 2,600 students, he said. I expect that the program will continue to grow each summer, because of the large number of people who come into Cedar City each year. Approximately 125,000 people came here last summer, he said, and generated about $10 million in revenue for the community. PUBLICATIONS: $4 HEALTH SERVICE: $2. OPEN REC: $2 SCHOLARSHIPS: $1 THEATRE: $1 Fees fund student services BY KATHLEEN PETT Student fees increased by $13 this fall to help bring SUSC into compliance with Title IX requirements and to help fund the proposed expansion of the Student Center. The Board of Regents passed the request last spring raising the total fees paid from $99 to $112. Even with the increase of student fees, SUU is still the least expensive four-yea- r institution in the state, said Sterling R. Church, vice president for student services. According to Church, the Student Center expansion, planned to take place within the next three years, will raise the quality of the institution and attract more students to SUSC when it becomes SUU. Of the $13, $10 is placed in a reserve account for the construction of additional Student Center facilities. Known as Phase II, the expansion would add a ballroom, a little theatre, additional meeting rooms and expand Food Services facilities. The remaining $3 is slated for the athletic budget to bring the school into compliance with Title DC requirements. The money will be used to make mens and womens athletics more equitable. According to officials, compliance with Title DC regulations will improve all campus athletic programs, but the most benefit will be felt by participants and spectators of womens athletics. The original $99 in fees paid by students is channeled into several different programs. The bulk of it, $42, is a building fee which goes toward the bond payment on the Student Center and the Centrum. In addition, the money also pays for the football stadium, lights and the Harris Pavilion. The athletic department receives $16 which is divided among campus athletic programs and enables SUSC students to receive free (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5) Service Center renovation postponed due to costs BY TYLER JENSEN Construction costs have halted progress on SUSC s new Academic Service Center, according to Michael D. Richards, vice president for college relations. Wholesale demolition (of the old Student Center) is complete, he said, but further construction will await a redesign of the original plans. The college has conferred with Utahs Department of Facilities and Construction Management, and the two entities have rejected all current bids, choosing redesign to bring the project within the proposed budget of $3.7 million. Demolition, phase one of the project, was finished this summer. According to Phillip C. Carter, associate provost of academic programs, approximately $3.1 million was allocated for phase two construction and renovation. The bids received by the state were about architectural $900,000 more than expected, he said. The firm of FFKR in Salt Lake City will redesign the plans and resubmit them to DFCM and SUSC. The Academic Service Center was originally constructed in 1927. The facility is currently enclosed in a construction zone, but plans for redesign will have little effect on the buildings exterior. The Academic Service Center will be congruent with the other historical buildings on the upper campus, said Richards. The center will be used primarily as office space and a conference center, unifying the now fragmented Division of Continuing Education (DCE) as well as SUSCs Lectures and Special Projects. According to original designs, facilitators and lecturers were also allocated temporary office space. According to Richards, the number of spaces planned in the original design will remain unchanged in the redesign. C. David Nyman, director of DCEs conferences and workshops, said he regrets the lack of space the redesign may create, but is greatful to have DCE in one building, instead of three buildings spread across campus. Nyman already has plans for the space and has queries for the 1992 year. The conferences contacting him are often larger than the college has been able to accommodate in the past, but that is not a concern, said Nyman. Although, he said, he is concerned about housing the participants, something that will need to be looked into in the future. FFKR should return the redesigned plans to DFCM and SUSC within two months, but there are no plans to begin construction before the winter season. Richards estimates the construction should last 10 to 18 months once begun, depending on weather conditions and the redesign. |