Career Planning: Ideally, the career decision making process should begin as soon as a student enters college. Students are provided opportunities to talk with career advisers, join self-exploration and career exploration classes and seminars, use audio visual facilities and career exploration modules, and avail themselves of other programs and personnel at the Center to increase their knowledge of occupations of interest or learn about new ones. Testing is also an important tool used by the Center to help students evaluate and select tentative vocational goals, and correlate academic choices with career interest. The objective is to have students become their own experts in formulating career plans that will be compatible with their academic pursuits, serve as a motivational factor while a student, and become a career direction after graduation. This kind of planning insures students maximum future employability. Cooperative Education: Beginning with their second year, students should take advantage of the Center's facilities to further refine career plans through Cooperative Education classes and work environment experiences. Besides giving the student an opportunity to gain marketable work experience, they are also given the opportunity to test the reality of their career decisions. In preparation for the Co-op experience or entry into the job market, the Center provides on-going programs in personal job search plan development, communication skills, and interviewing skills and techniques. Finally, the Center provides students with the opportunity to interview with many employer representatives from business, industry, government, and educational institutions. These representatives are invited to campus and hosted by the Career Planning, Cooperative Education, and Placement Center for the express purpose of giving Weber State students the broadest and most direct access to the job market possible. COUNSELING CENTER Purpose- The purpose of the Counseling Center is to contribute to student development through supplementing existing campus programs in the areas of intellectual and physical development, and to foster development in emotional, social and career areas through programs initiated by the Center itself. Assistance to existing programs is provided through curricular planning, class scheduling, and sometimes monitoring individual student progress. Occasionally students encounter circumstances that induce frustration, stress, and personal disruption. Assistance in this domain generates emotional growth. Conducting needs assessment surveys allows the Counseling Center to initiate programs to facilitate growth in social, spiritual, and career areas. While the Counseling Center sponsors efforts to foster student growth through Environmental System Intervention and Research and Evaluation, the most direct service to students comes through some of the following interventions: Test and Math Anxiety Desensitization Working with academic standards students Communications Skills Training Assertiveness Training Values Clarification Workshops Decision-Making Workshops Wilderness Retreats Constructive Response to Divorce Workshops Improving the Quality of Heterosexual Relations Individual Counseling Human Potential Seminars Counselors- Counselors in the Counseling Center include persons from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds who are trained in counseling psychology, social work, educational psychology and other fields related to the helping professions. Assistance in any of the aspects of personal development noted above can be obtained by scheduling an appointment through the Center receptionist. The Counseling Center is located in the basement of the Library. Psychiatric Service- A psychiatrist serves as a consultant to the Counseling Center and is available for limited psychiatric assistance through referral by/and conjoint treatment with a member of the Counseling Center staff. 38 Testing Center TESTING CENTER The Weber State College Testing Center offers a variety of standardized tests for the purpose of placement, evaluation of achievement and granting of credit. In addition, aptitude, interest, personality and intelligence tests are given as aids to counselors in helping students select a major deal with personal concerns relevant to college adjustment. 1. American College Test (ACT)- It is recommended that students take the ACT test as early as possible during their senior year of high school. The test is offered on a national basis for high school students and on a residual basis for those who failed to take the test during high school. a. National ACT tests are given five times each year at college testing centers in all states and in many foreign countries. 1978-79 ACT test dates are: October 21, 1978, December 9, 1978, February 10, 1979, April 7, 1979 and June 23, 1979. Registration packets may be obtained from high school principals or counselors, from the Weber State College Testing Center, or by writing ACT Registration, P.O. Box 414, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. b. Residual ACT or the local administration of the ACT is given prior to the beginning of each quarter for students who will be attending Weber State College and who did not take the National ACT test. The residual ACT will be given on the following dates: May 20, June 10, August 19, September 9, September 16, December 2, and December 16, 1978, January 20, February 17, and March 10, 1979. Students should register for the test at the Testing Center in the Library, room 45, at least on day before the test date. The fee is $10.00. 2. College Level Examination Program (CLEP)- The CLEP examinations are offered during the third week of each month at testing centers throughout the United States. Registration forms may be obtained at the Testing Center in the Library, or by writing to College Entrance Examination Board, Box 1824, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. The CLEP tests are offered at Weber State College as follows: a. General Examinations are offered on the third Saturday of each month. Students who are interested in taking the test should submit their registration form and a check or money order for the correct fee to the Testing Center at least two days before the test date. b. Subject Examinations are offered on Thursday of the third week of each month. Registration forms and fees should be returned to the Testing Center at least 15 school days before the test date. 3. General Educational Development (GED)- Utah residents who have not graduated from high school may take the GED battery of tests as partial fulfillment of the application requirements for Weber State College. The tests are administered Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the Testing Center in the Library. Registration for the test and payment of the $10 fee may be completed at the time the first test is taken. Most other tests may be taken at the Testing Center, Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Registration forms for graduate school admission tests may be obtained at the Testing Center. SERVICES FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS Services for Disabled Students at Weber State College were organized to coordinate support services: interpreting, note-taking, reading, counseling, career planning and placement, parking, tutoring, housing, wheelchair attendance, legal and medical assistance, access to TTY machine, and other needs disabled students might have. Weber State College prohibits discrimination on the basis of handicap in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Discrimination is prohibited in recruitment for admission, admission and treatment of students, housing, financial assistance, employment, counseling and placement services, health services, physical education and athletics, social organization, etc. 39