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Show Upward Bound program underwavatSUSC Education - recreational field trips this summer include in-clude weekend outing at Navajo Lake, Zion National Park, the SUSC mountain cabin and ranch, Beaver Mountain, and an eight-day excursion to California. The students will also attend at-tend a production of "Othello" at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. A staff of 16 full or part-time part-time employees will administer ad-minister and supervise the program during the summer. sum-mer. Upward Bound at SUSC is administered by the School of Continuing Education and Public Service. Summer activities for 50 students in the Upward Bound program at Southern Utah State College are just beginning. The students, from 10 high schools in southern Utah, eastern Nevada, and northern Arizona, will be based on campus until August 5. They arrived early this week. During their stay at SUSC, the students will participate in academic classes, organize and administer a student government program, and take educational- recreational field trips. "The main goal of the Upward Bound program" according to Carolyne White, SUSC's Upward Bound director, " is to develop enthusiasm for learning, to encourage students to seek post-secondary post-secondary education of some sort, whether it be trade school, college, or whatever." Of the 50 students in the SUSC program, 40 will be 10th, nth, or 12th grade students in their local high schools next year. The other 10 students are "bridge students"; they are high school graduates who will be attending their first college classes. Students in the program come from high schools located in Alamo, Nev.; Tuba City and Jayenta, Ariz.; and in Panguitch, Parowan, Cedar City, Beaver, Milford, Tropic and Kanab. Upward Bound also includes in-cludes an academic year program. Weekly meetings are held at all local high schools where students receive individual or small-group small-group instruction. |