Show I J I I t Junior unior College Situation Data I II I The definite announcement of ot the L. L D. D S. S Church to discontinue some ome of its schools that are now not I junior college courses has produced a situation of oC peculiar interest in in- terest especially in the rural dia- dia I I To meet this situation a and d bring about a proper solution measures I will undoubtedly be proposed atthe atthe at atthe the coming session of the State Legislature Box Dox Elder CommercIal Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial Club through its committee on education has given the the- matter some very ca careful attention Whatever Whatever Whatever What What- ever the attitude the data on the tho Junior College Gallege question as compiled ed by this committee is enlighten enlighten- ing It is as follows 1 Pupils are now graduating from high school at the ages of ot 16 to 18 2 2 These graduates are arc still sun in inthe Inthe the upper adolescent period 3 They are rather young to send away way from home to live in boarding houses 4 There Is a wide gap gip educationally between high school and college 5 Freshman and Sophomore years of college should be replaced courses by two year ear Junior college better adapted to the needs of or these young people at the end of or which courses most of them may choose to enter lifes life's vocations to further the rather than pursue studios classical or professional 6 It will cost both the state and the parents much less lees per pupil pupil pu pu- pull p pil ll to educate them In local junior colleges than in the higher classical classical classi class of ot in branches cal schools or I them I there were 7 Thirty years ago I IonlY only 66 graduates of ot high school turned out in Utah Utah Utah- Utah 46 46 6 from Salt Lake City and 20 from Ogden There were graduated in the public high schools ot or Utah In 1928 are now about There Thoro pupils twenty times as many high school I graduates each year as twenty times as many asten asten as a's asten years ago five and nearly twice as ten years ears ago as five years ago many higher InstitutIons institutions in our 8 Classes taxed with are now over the number of freshmen t. t cent or of lUC these am- am n u- u 9 Seventy per the counties near are ara from the dents institution A majority of ot counties are arc being sadly neglected neglected neglected neg neg- the deserving students students students stu stu- since many dents living therein are too poor costs of ot going away the to pay Y to college One large largo home from rom precisely one hundred hund hund- hundred county reports such students and sixty one of re red who are forced to as many nearly burden of ot the extra heavy bear and going Into rite another another another an an- home leaving len college work for any t county count other the crisis in Utah reached We have Something must be done dono counties of or these 10 Several college collego opportunities lack these those which number of ot have an ample establish establish- graduates to make the I I ment went of local junior colleges very economical In some cases two two more school districts may desire 1 I to unite for tor this purpose It is J far better to establish these local t I coll colleges than to add new buildings t I I for freshmen and sophomores atthe at atthe the Utah state Agricultural Agricultural College Col Col- cOI 1 I lege legs and the University of Utah orto or orto to branches of ot them Such opinion opinion opinIon I ion has been expressed publicly by Dr George F. F Zook advisor ov 01 higher education on the tho staff of ot the Utah School Survey 11 A few of ot the larger school chool districts with no public college privileges have patrons who who- are arenow arenow arenow now spending or more moro per pcr year ear In tending Lending their children It Is J I at a distance to college estimated that more than halt half of ot I this amount could be saved if there were local junior colleges 12 The pre present ent crisis is made doubly when we also count the graduates from private Institutions and the fact that some Borne of the private Junior colleges willbo will willbe be bo eliminated in iii the immediate fu fu- fu ture turo 13 Judging from what way wai done when the B. B Y U. U College at Logan was closed a few years a ago o. o It is probable that the buildings I and sites of these private rato institutions Lions may be either purchased or rented at but a a. fractional portion of at their real value This would make the Introduction of publicly supported local junior colleges easy in some important cases 14 Salt Lake City Is ia in na nerd need d dof r of at all available room at the University Uni Un- yer t In JhC he city school system rind find the L L. D. D S. S school buildings Ogden could use usa to great advantage advani advantage i tage all nIl the L. L D. D S. S Church buildIngs buildings build build- ings there North and South Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San- San pete pete and possibly one one or two adjoining adjoIning adjoining ad ad- joining districts ts could use the tho I ISnow Snow College buildings al at Ephraim I Ito to to a great advantage etc I J 15 Similar crises have hayo In other states and as os a result t there is a wide nation movement movement for tor the tho establishment of at local Junior colleges Some time ago Whitney listed public and andt t private junior colleges in 39 states Of Dt these 14 G w oro publicly supported supported supported sup sup- ported junior colleges which have nearly trebled since 1922 With but ut very vory few exceptions the leadIng leadIng leading lead- lead Ing school authorities on organization lon tion and administration of ot t the tho o schools of ot the nation are giving the tho ho movement strong support |