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Show President Brady Since 1978, when he walked onto the Weber State College Campus, President Rodney H. Brady has won and kept the respect and confidence of Weber State College students. He asserted that Weber State College was to be known locally, nationally and internationally as the Campus where students and student needs are the first priority. In a broad spectrum of roles and positions, President Brady daily directs the affairs of the campus through his vice-presidents. He meets with students. He tries to fill the needs of the Faculty Senate, the ASWSC Legislative Council, the Greater Ogden Area Community, and the Utah State Board of Regents. At many public functions President Brady is a familiar sight, shaking hands with individuals, expressing interest in them, and encouraging them to "grow" with him. President Brady believes in settng goals. During high school he set 175 goals for his lifetime. He is constantly re-evaluating them and checking his progress. President Brady's goal setting policy has helped him in his administration at Weber State College. Six or seven months after he became the college president, Brady listed "Seven major goals for the future of WSC." They are as follows: 1. To cause WSC to become the finest undergraduate college in America, and become clearly recognized as such. 2. To cause WSC to become widely known as a college at which every member of the faculty is clearly recognized as being a master teacher, or is in the process of becoming a master teacher. 3. To cause WSC to become widely known as an institution where each student is clearly regarded as the most important person on campus. 4. To cause the college to fulfill, in the most complete and excellent fashion possible, its role as a comprehensive college and those other specialized roles assigned to the college by the State Board of Regents. 5. To develop and maintain at the college an administrative atmosphere and working conditions which will enable all members of the faculty and staff of the college to feel successful in their assignments and achieve a high quality of life for themselves and their families. 6. To provide a learning and cultural focus for the community of the highest quality and an image of which the community can take pride. 7. To accomplish all of the above at the lowest possible cost to the students and the taxpayers without compromising the quality of excellence. A former Under Sectretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a former Executive in the Hughes Tool Company, a former Executive Vice-Presidlent of Bergen Brunswig Corporation, the past national chief executive of the Cub Scouts, the current Western Director of the Boy Scouts of America, President Brady is an energetic planner and consistant performer, setting standards for personal and professional activities that the best of the faculty and studentbody can model. The president received a Doctorate of Business Administration from Harvard University after earning B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Utah. President Brady symbolizes the age of maturing and developing occuring now at Weber State College. One of the largest colleges in the nation, Weber State in trying to become a leader in producing a faculty who are all master teachers and a list of graduates who are all community and national leaders and servants. |