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Show included a provision for each institution to have an Institutional Council. Each Institutional Council was composed of eight members appointed by the Governor and the ninth member was to be the president of the institutions alumni association. The institutional council for the two technical colleges would be the State Board of Education. Senate Bill 10 became effective July 1, 1969. The bill gave complete power to the State Board for Higher Education to administer all of the institutions under its control but that it may delegate to institutional councils the authority to administer the local internal affairs of the institutions. The State Board could not delegate the appointment of the president of each institution, the fixing of fees, the determination of the operating budget recommendations to the legislature, the approval of all major curricula changes, and the final approval of construction of capital facilities and land purchases. As the new system came into practice, the State Board delegated to the president of each institution with the approval of the institutional council within guidelines established by the Board, the employment of faculty and staff, the approval of faculty and student government, the administration of capital facility construction after each major project had been approved by the State Board, and the approval of minor changes in the curricula. At the May 20,1969 meeting of the Board of Trustees, authorization was given to transfer the title of the Moench Building on the old campus to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints effective July 1, 1969. It was projected that the new Natural Science Building would be completed by the date of the transfer. This transactioncompleted the disposal of all of the property of the former Weber campus and ended an era of 77 years which began in 1892 when the Moench building was first used by the Weber Stake Academy. From the summer of 1954 until the summer of 1969, Weber had operated a split campus. In September of 1970, the L.D.S. Church announced that the 79-year old Moench Building located on the old campus would be razed. The new addition to the Student Union Building was dedicated on May 2,1969. As the original building was designed by former student and architect Keith Wilcox, expansion to the west had been part of the plan. Construction on the new phase of the building had begun during the fall of 1967. Culp Construction Company submitted the low bid for construction of the facility at 1,941,000. The new addition included a large ballroom, a new area for the bookstore, an additional food service facility, student offices, meeting rooms, a work shop for activities, and lounges. With the completion of the new addition, the Union Policy Board designated some smoking areas in the building. At the June 7, 1969 Commencement Exercises held at 8:00 a.m. in the stadium, David M. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and a former Weber student body officer, gave the address to the graduates and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree. Six hundred sixty-two bachelor of science degrees were awarded along with 90 bachelor of arts degrees. The growth of the college was indicated by the hiring of 41 new professors to begin the 1968-1969 school year. With the growth of the college as well as the growth of unrest among students across the United States, a policy concerning Student Rights and Responsibilities was prepared by a committee made up of students, faculty, and administrators. The statement was to assure due process for students, to state a general code of conduct for students, and to outline a set of procedures to deal with students who were accused of infractions of rules. The document was approved by the Board of Trustees on June 17, 1969, and a copy was provided to each student who registered at the college at the beginning of the 1969-1970 school year. Twelve high school bands participated in the 1969 Homecoming parade making it one of the largest parades in the history of the school. On July 1, 1969, the college moved from the governance of the Weber State College Board of Trustees to the State Board of Higher Education (later named the Board of Regents) and the Weber State College Institutional Council. The Board of Trustees had directed the college for a seven year period (1962 to 1969), and during that period the operating budget of the College had increased from 1,494,219 to 7,620,400 and fall quarter comparative enrollments of day students from 2,162 to 8,144. The reorganization of the college had been a major accomplishment, and cultural activities had been expanded. Campus development resulted in more than 15,000,000 of completed or near completed buildings and an additional 7,000,000 of buildings were under construction and nearly ready for construction. Campus developments had been made in conjunction with a campus master plan with detailed development for a campus to serve 15,000 students. During Fall Quarter 1968, students be-gan to propose a Faculty Evaluation Program. Student evaluation of faculty members became a reality, although it continued to be a debated issue over the next two decades. Portions of the Signpost through the decades of the 1960s and 1970s were large-scale fashion advertisements. The constitution of the Academic Council was revised during the 1968-1969 school year to allow four students to sit on the Council and vote on Council proceedings. Racial tensions became evident on campus during the 1969-1970 school year with charges of discrimination leveled against the athletic department and other parts of the college by the newly organized Black Student Union. In June of 1970 an Institute of Ethnic Studies was organized with Richard O. Ulibarri as director. By a vote of six to four, the student senate rejected an S.D.S. (Students for a Democratic Society) petition for a campus chapter during January of 1970 after a long and heated debate. New Programs in Asian Studies and Latin American Studies were added to curriculum as well as Black and African Studies. The new Institutional Council elected O. C. Hammond as chair and Frank Francis, Jr. as vice chair. The council took action at its first meeting to confirm all operating policies and procedures of the College pending further study. In September of 1969, Reed Stringham, Jr. was appointed to succeed Richard Kingston as Assistant Dean of the School of Arts, Letters, and Science for Medically Allied Programs. The programs that Stringham was responsible for included inhalation therapy, dental assistant, x-ray technicians, and medical technicians in addition to the associate degree program in nursing and the licensed practical nurs- |