| Show Students From County Listed In Plan Sixteen Utah students are now attending schools of veterinary medicine in other we western s t ern states under a special low-cost low tuition plan supervised by the Western Interstate Com Commission mission for High Higher e r Education with headquarters in Boulder Colo and 39 students from other western states are attending the University of Utah College of Medicine under the same pro pro- gram P DR MERLE E. E Allen director director director tor of the Utah Coordinating Council of Higher Education and Commissioner for Utah said The student exchange program is a way two-way street for Utah We are able to send students to universities elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where and also help train students students students stu stu- dents from other states The fhe UnI University of Utah's College of Medicine has 39 students Reimbursement Reimbursement Reimbursement Reimburse Reimburse- ment made to Utah by these students students' students students' stu stu- dents' dents home states totals 88 this year THE UTAH legislature ap appropriated appropriated appropriated ap- ap for the training of students we are sending to veterinary schools in other states Under the NICHE Student Exchange Program II Dr Allen explained Schools of medicine medicine medicine medi medi- cine dentistry dental hygiene and veterinary m medicine dicine in the West contract through the office to admit qualified students from states which have no professional schools in these fields As a sending state Utah certifies that the student is a an eligible resident WHEN Ir HE is accepted he pays the regular tuition charged by the school to residents of it its s state and Utah pays the school schoola a fee which helps cover the out- out pocket of-pocket cost to the institution This year western young people are stud studying their professions professions professions pro pro- as regional students in medicine in dentistry 16 in dental hygiene hy hygiene hygiene hy- hy giene and in veterinary medicine The total program involves transfer of over among the states THE PROGRAM benefits the students the states and the schools The student pays only the state in-state tuition fee The sending states are able to help provide professional training for future physicians dentists dental hygienists and The schools gain by re receiving receiving receiving re- re direct payments to help cover the actual cost of or educating educating educating ing the student Dr Allen is Utah's representative representative representative on the executive committee The states state's other commissioners are Peter Billings BillIngs Bill Bill- Ings and David McKay of Salt Lake City All are members of Utah's Coordinating Council of Higher Education I THE WE WESTERN S T ERN Interstate Commission for Higher Education Education Education tion Is a public agency supported support support- ed by the 13 western states Its primary responsibility is to help the states Improve their higher education pro programs g ram s through regional cooperation Those from Davis County taking taking taking tak tak- ing advantage of this exchange program are Robert M. M Yelland Yelland Yelland Yel- Yel land Bountiful attending the University of California at Davis Calif and Lee E. E Rogers Rogers Rogers Rog Rog- ers Layton attending Colorado State University at Fort Collins |
