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Show Must work with USU Cooperative Master's granted to SUSC masters program as presented to the Board of Regents and their subcommittees. sub-committees. He said it wasn't something just "out of the blue" but had been pursued and planned since 1966 when post four-year classes began to be offered in Cedar City. Miller said mailed surveys to six southern Utah counties showed there are 800 practising teachers, 300 of which already have their masters degree. "This means we have a Dotential of Although not granted an independent masters of education program as requested, SUSC officials state they will "prove our point" with the cooperative program okayed by the Utah State Board of Regents last week. James Miller, dean of the SUSC School of Education, said the situation for a masters program at the Cedar City based four year institution is "not as dismal as it may seem. They turned down our independent request but the cooperative program from Utah State University is very good indeed." Dr. T. H. Bell, commissioner of Utah higher education, recommended SUSC - vyork closely with USU in setting up a masters program to meet the needs of inservice teachers. Bell said an independent program for SUSC was not justified at this time due to cost. The decision puts SUSC in the role of applying for funds to bolster the library resources in the field of education and to pay for faculty additions. Faculty for the program will initially come from present staff and "rotating faculty" from USU, Miller said. "Just because we didn't get an independent in-dependent program doesn't mean we didn't get a program. We will have a much strengthened program," Miller stated. We will be able to offer an on-campus on-campus masters of education, but the certificate will have the heading from Utah State University." SUSC will not be able to count those with the masters program as enrolled students, Miller and Conrad Hatch, academic vice-president indicated. Miller said "a tremendous amount of time and effort went into articulating and preparing the case" for the 500 students for this program," Miller explained. "Plus we hope to have it appealing to a wide variety of-people. It should help build our summer and evening programs." SUSC President Royden Braithwaite said the USU-SUSC cooperative masters program will be highly monitored. He said USU will be committed com-mitted to offer a quality program, just as if SUSC were handling the entire program alone. Hatch said the cooperative program will be starting full throttle next September, Sep-tember, and funding will become available after July 1 of next year. USU has suggested they will need $40,000 to initiate the cooperation, while SUSC officials have set $82,000 as a viable figure for setting up the program. "We want to offer a quality program, nothing third or fourth rate." Miller said. "We view this not as a setback but as a challenge to upgrade our program. Let them watch us--we will use this to strengthen our own case." Some limited classes involved with the masters program will be offered this winter, Miller said, as the program gets underway. |