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Show Utah Technical College Grant to Aid in Coordinating Education A $25,000 grant the first of its kind in Utah has been awarded Utah Technical College Coll-ege at Provo by the federal office of-fice of education, to coordinate general, or academic education with career, or vocational-technical education. This was announced recently recent-ly by Grant L. Cook, chairman of the General Education Department. De-partment. Preliminary development develop-ment of the grant was done by Dr. Lucille Stoddard, chairman of the College Business Department Depart-ment with the support of Senator Sen-ator Frank E. Moss and Congressman Con-gressman Gunn McKay. The grant will be administered administer-ed by the general education department de-partment of Utah Technical College at Provo. Chairman Cook announced that immediate immed-iate direction of the program will be under Dr. D. Duane Jacobs. Ja-cobs. One of the advantages of this program is that students will have an opportunity to work in local businesses and industries to get "on-the-job" experience. This type of cooperative coop-erative program has been utilized util-ized for some time in the vocational-technical areas, but is the first time that general education edu-cation students have had an opportunity to train on the job. The money will be spent to show students in general, or academic education how they can best shift into the career, or vocational-technical field if they wish to do so, said Dr. Jacobs. Many students enroll &t Utah Tech in the 176 academic aca-demic courses with the gener- al aim of accumulating credits on a junior college level for two years and then transferring to a four-year college and going on to a bachelor degree. Credits in general education at Utah Tech are transferable to every four-year college in Utah by order of the state board of higher education for the public colleges and universities univer-sities and by special arrangement ar-rangement with the Brigham Young University, a private institution. in-stitution. But, said Dr. Jacobs, a student stu-dent may start out in general education and decide he wishes to shift into a career, or vocational-technical direction. The new program, for which the $25,000 grant has been received, re-ceived, is designed to help him do this, and point out directions direc-tions that are best suited to his needs and abilities. A recent survey, he stated, shows that in community colleges coll-eges of California, 70 per cent of those who enroll in general education ultimately make the shift to career, or vocational-technical vocational-technical education. Dr. Jacobs pointed out the basic aim of Utah Technical College at Provo is vocational-Technical, vocational-Technical, career training although it also operates a general gen-eral education division where students may enroll until they find the direction they wish to take, or where they may complete com-plete two years of credits and courses on the junior college level and then transfer to a four-year college to obtain a bachelor degree. The new program is to further fur-ther emphasize the basic aim of Utah Tech giving general education students opportunity to explore education and then change direction toward the latter if they wish to do so. Dr. Jacobs received his EdD. this year from Brigham Young : University. He earned a bachelors bach-elors degree in 1968 from Arizona Ari-zona State University and a masters in 1969 from Utah State University. After teaching teach-ing on the business faculty at Pima College in Tucson, Arizona Ari-zona he joined the business faculty last year of Utah Technical Tech-nical College at Provo. |