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Show ) Major Speakers 1970 Utah Conference on Higher Education scheduled at SUSC Anderson, SUSC's chairman of 'local arrangements, said. The annual conference involves in-volves faculty and staff members mem-bers from Utah's nine colleges and universities and from the two Utah techincal colleges. Section meetings in the areas of adult educaation, faculty fa-culty personnel, general education, edu-cation, public relations, curriculum cur-riculum and methods, graduate gradu-ate studies and research, and student personnel are held in addition to general meetings. The conf erenco r o t a tqs among the campuses of the member institutions each year. Two major speakers for the 1970 Utah Conference on Higher High-er Education have been announced an-nounced by conference president presi-dent Lee Morrell, Southern Utah State College. Dr. G. Homer Durham, Utah Commissioner of Higher Education, Edu-cation, and Max Lerner, nationally na-tionally syndicated columnist, will speak at conference sessions ses-sions September 10-11 on the SUSC compus in Cedar City. Theme of the conference will be "Issues in Higher Education." Ed-ucation." "We think we have two speakers who will fit in extremely ex-tremely well with our theme," Dr. Morrell said. Dr. Durham is just completing complet-ing his first year as head of Utah's first coordinated system sys-tem of higher education, and Dr. Lerner is a recognized authority on many facets of education, according to Dr. Morrell. Former AStl Prexy Prior to becoming Utah's first commissioner for higher education, Dr. Durham was president of Arizona State University where he worked in close collaboration with a single governing board. He has been instrumental in creating the Utah Coordinating Coordinat-ing Council for Higher Education Educa-tion and has been a consultant consult-ant to Nevada and Montana Legislatures. Dr. Lerner was educated at Yale, Washngtion University and Robert Brooksings Graduate Grad-uate School of Economics and Government. He has taught at several major universities, wrote and edited several books, and was a Ford Foundation Foun-dation professor and study grantee. He is currently a professor pro-fessor of American Civilization at Brandies University. Dr. Morrell also announced the 1970 Resolutions Committee. Commit-tee. Dayna L. Stokes, Brigham Young University, will serve as chairman.. Will conider items "UCHE members who would like to have the conference consider a specific matter should contact one of the merrtbers of this committee," Dr. Morrel said. Other members of the Resolutions Reso-lutions Committee include Jay J. Campbell, Utah State Board of Education; Andrew H. Bar-num, Bar-num, Dixie College; Gary Giles, Southern Utah State Col-lege; Col-lege; Milton G. Abrams, Utah State University; Boyer Jarvis, , University of Utah; and Far-1 rell Collett, Weber State College. Col-lege. : Local arrangements are well underway, Dr. Morrell reported. re-ported. "We had a record registered reg-istered attendance of 1,116 last year at BYU, and we expect ex-pect another big conference this fall." "Southern Utah is spectacularly spectacu-larly beautiful in the early autumn, and we are planning several activities which will allow UCHE visitors to enioy the scenic attractions as well ; as benefit from the conference confer-ence activities," Dr. Russcl , |