24 THE AWARD SYSTEM The College supports an award system in order to accomplish the following objectives: 1. To stimulate participation in out-of-class activities. 2. To encourage a maximum achievement in a student's chosen field. 3. To recognize and thus promote outstanding services to the College. Awards are granted for leadership, services, and achievement on four levels: exceptional, outstanding, meritorious, and commendable. Recommendations for awards are made by the Departments through the Division heads and directed to the Awards, Scholarship, and Eligibility Committee, composed of faculty and student representatives. THE OFF-CAMPUS COOPERATIVE TRAINING The off-campus cooperative training program has grown out of the needs of students and employers of the communities within the Weber College area. It is designed to provide a program in which the practical skill phase of the occupation is taught on the job, and the supplemental instruction and technical phases of the occupation are taught at the College. Weber College also cooperates with the various military installations and the military groups in planning and presenting specific courses of instruction as desired and needed by each of these organizations. SUPERVISORY TRAINING Weber College has for a number of years, in cooperation with industry, the military installations, and other government agencies, offered specific supervisory training courses designed to improve and upgrade top management, supervisors, and foremen on the job. Each course, is planned to give specific information to the organization and workers concerned. Time, credit hours, and place are arranged to meet the conditions of each program. THE COLLEGE STANDARDS In administering its curriculum: its instruction, activities, and training program, the College subscribes to changing emphases in education: from subject matter to student needs, from the accumulation of information as an end in itself, to the modification of behavior and the practical application of knowledge; yet along with this liberalization of its aims and offerings, it persistently seeks to maintain high standards of performance in all fields. THE SERVICES To make the offerings of the curriculum and the facilities of the College available, the institution maintains a program of services, which provides for its students' admissions and graduations, scholastic 25 regulations, guidance, health, housing, cafeteria and fountain service, instruction (including library service, museum collections and visual materials), books and supplies, financial aid, placement and follow-up. Telephone, mail, stenographic and stores services are supplied more particularly for student and faculty staff. The program also provides advisory and supervisory services for students' out-of-class activities and their off-campus training. THE ADMINISTRATION To direct the in-class instruction, the out-of-class activities, the off-campus training, and the services of the institution, the College uses the following officers and administrative organizations in which the State, the faculty, students, and community are represented. The Utah State Board of Education together with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as executive officer, acts upon the recommendations submitted by the President of Weber College. The President of Weber College is the administrator of the College responsible to the State Board and the community for the educational and financial management of the institution. The Weber College Advisory Board makes recommendations to the president of Weber College and to the State Board of Education. The Board is composed of a group of citizens in the Weber College area which meets monthly to discuss problems of general welfare concerning Weber College and the educational needs of the Weber area. The ways and means of meeting the objectives of Weber College are formulated by this board. The following officers and staff of the College are responsible to the President for the administration of curriculum and services: Dean of Faculty, Chairman of Divisions, Librarian, Dean of Men, Dean of Women, Registrar, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. They also make up the Administrative Advisory Council that serves the President in an advisory capacity. The President of the Weber College Faculty Association, is also a member of the Administrative Advisory Council. Administrative Committees, appointed by the President, have both student and faculty representatives as follows: Admissions, Credits and Graduation; Buildings and Campus Planning; Catalogue; Library; Student Aid and Employment; Student Guidance; Summer Session and Extension Division, Assemblies; Athletics; Awards, Scholarship, Eligibility; Lecture and Concert Series; Publicity; Standards; and Student Activities has student representatives appointed by the Student Board of Control. The Board of Control, the executive body of student government, Includes faculty representatives as follows: Student body executive officers: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Sophomore Class President, and two elective representatives from the Sophomore Class; Freshman Class President, and two elective representatives from the Freshman Class; a member of the Weber College Faculty named by the President of the College, and a faculty member named by the Board of Control. The College Treasurer is an