WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 17 Jl Istratu wiivwsiraiion Purposes Organized as a two-year state junior college offering two years of lower division work paralleling that of the universities, and two years or less of terminal work, Weber College serves at least four major groups of students: (1) those preparing for upper division standing in institutions of higher learning; (2) those seeking a cultural education in courses that terminate at the end of the college sophomore year; (3) those desiring two years of semi-professional, trade and industrial, business, or other vocational training that will qualify them to enter the commercial and industrial world; and (4) those needing short-term courses and cooperative programs. Weber College promotes, as its primary purpose, the development of its students along socially desirable lines. It accepts as its first obligation the undergirding of American democracy through the development of an enlightened citizenry. It also shares, with the community and the home, responsibility for the development in its students of personality and ethical character. Educational Philosophy- Weber College follows a philosophy which maintains that education should prepare a student to make both a life and a living. The instructors, therefore, teach academic courses with their vocational values in mind, and vocational courses with the aim of promoting every opportunity for rounded cultural development. The College subscribes, also, to changing emphases in education: from subject matter to student growth, from subject content to student needs, from the accumulation of information as an end in itself, to the modification of behavior. Yet along with this liberalization of its purposes and offerings, it persistently seeks to maintain high standards of scholarship and performance in all fields. History and Accreditation Weber College, founded as an academy in the year 1889, was organized as a junior college in 1922-1923 and transferred to the State of Utah in 1933. Since that time it has been a state-supported junior college operated under the direction of the Utah State Board of Education. Weber College is fully recognized by institutions of higher learning. In 1932 it was accredited by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. In 1931 it became a member of the American Association of Junior Colleges, and in 1939 of the American Council on Education. Acknowledgment of the work of Weber College in terminal education was made in 1940 when it was selected by the General Board of Education as one of nine colleges in the United States to receive a grant for cooperative study of terminal education courses, the findings of which were published May 1944 in a monograph prepared for the American Association of Junior Colleges by members of the Faculty and Henry Aldous Dixon, coordinator of the study. Weber College Buildings