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Show Reasons Are Given Why Carbon College Should Be Retained As Part Of Utah's Educational System One of the arguments used to justify the destruction of Carbon College is that the people peo-ple in the area near Carbon College Col-lege have no more right to a junior college than do the people peo-ple in Richfield, in the Uintah Basin, or in Box Klder County. Appealing to these sectional jealousies, these men would abolish abol-ish Carbon College, which has had an average full-time enrollment enroll-ment of 216 over the sixteen years it has been in operation, give more than a million dollars dol-lars worth of state owned buildings build-ings to the Carbon County School District to be used for a district high school and forever close any possibility of a public College being established elsewhere else-where in the state. The Committee to Save Carbon Car-bon College has no quarrel with any other section of the state and it stands ready to assist other sections if they will ask for a junior college supported by the state. There are many good reasons why more, not fewer, junior colleges should be established in Utah. Some of these reasons are as follows: 1. We believe that the present pres-ent population of the Uintah Basin is sufficient to provide a college with at least 200 students stu-dents enrolled. If it were established es-tablished in connection with either Union or Uintah High School, the per capita costs would be low, as are the per capita costs at Carbon College because the Carbon School District Dis-trict helps pay for the operation opera-tion of the college plant. 2. The number of people of the Uintah Basin receiving college col-lege education would increase by at least 200 per cent if there were a college near so that students stu-dents could live at home and avoid the great expense of going away to college. It has been found that in counties where a college is located, 71 per cent of the high school graduates get college training, but where there is no college within 25 miles, only 30 per cent get to go to college. 3. Junior college education is less expensive to' the State of Utah per student than any other oth-er types of college. 4. College education should not be considered as an expense or burden, but as an investment invest-ment Everywhere where the most is spent for education, greater prosperity has always followed. Note the great wealth of California, which has numerous num-erous junior colleges and free education through the first two years of college. 5. The closing of Carbon College Col-lege by a vote of the people will strike the death blow to any future chance of establishing establish-ing state supported junior colleges col-leges elsewhere in the state. 6. ' Junior colleges should be run at state expense, just as the freshmen and sophomores of Cache can attend a state supported sup-ported Utah State Agricultural College. 7. With the great increase in the number of youth in Utah who Will attend college, the University Un-iversity and U.S.AJC. will have to be greatly expanded and expensive ex-pensive additional buildings erected. The Utah Foundation predicts a forty per cent increase in-crease in college enrollment by 1962. Why not educate part of the increase in junior colleges near the homes of the students. 8. The continued parent-child relationship can be continued for another two years, much to the joy of the parents and the good of the students if colleges are located nearby. The amount that can be saved the parents for these two years of college for their children will amount to nearly $2,000.00 per student. 9. Utah is not as financially bankrupt as Governor Lee j wants us to believe. Our people i are spending much more for tobacco and liquor than they are for education. Great amounts of untaxed wealth are leaving Utah eaoh year, wealth which could provide the state with a college education for every ev-ery youth to be obtained in schools near his home. 10. There is nothing fair in locating all of the state institutions institu-tions in a few populous counties in one section of the state. The light of a college should shine radiantly on every major population popu-lation area of the state. 11. The rural areas should not be jealous of what the Carbon Car-bon area has in Carbon College; but should see its great value to the people of its area and then take steps to secure like blessings and opportunities in their sections, also. Let us not be fooled by any leader of despair and gloom. Utat is a great state with a great future and the greatness of that future is closely bound up with the educational level reached by its masses of citizens. Let us keep education available for all the people, poor and rich alike, and not only for the few who can afford to send their children away to get their education at costs beyond the reach of many. 12.. The legislative action to close Carbon College was hasty and ill advised. The study of higher education in Utah should be made by a competent committee com-mittee Who' should investigate all phases of junior college edu- cation. We feel certain that such a study would not only justify the continuance of the present junior colleges, but would point the way to the establishment of more junior colleges. If the study should indicate that Car-I Car-I bon College should be closed, we Shall be willing to abide by such a decision. |
