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Show campus. He had added stability to the campus during the tumultuous period concerning the possible return of the college to the Mormon Church. Not only did Miller serve longer than any of his predecessors, but he also remained on the campus as a member of the faculty of the School of Education following his retirement as president. Miller was awarded an honorary doctor of humanities degree during the June 3, 1972 Commencement. The selection of a new president became an important order of business for the campus community. The faculty and staff of the college became involved in the presidential selection process for the first time in the history of the institution. The selection of earlier principals and presidents had been made by the State Board of Education after 1933 and prior to that time by the Weber Academy and college trustees with input from Mormon Church officials. In 1972, an eleven member committee of faculty, staff, alumni, administrators, and one student participated in the initial screening of 47 applications for the presidency and interviews with selected candidates. Interviews with several final candidates were then conducted by the Institutional Council. The Institutional Council then submitted its recommendations to the State Board of Higher Education along with a shortened list of final candidates. On May 23, 1972, the State Board of Higher Education met on the Weber State College campus and announced the appointment of Joseph L. Bishop as the new president of Weber State College. A native of Delta, Utah, Bishop had received his bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School in California, and had most recently served as executive secretary of a Florida-based consortium of 30 colleges. Bishops tenure as president of Weber State College lasted for six years (1972-1978), and during that period of time the campus experienced a great deal of unrest and upheaval. For the nation as a whole, this was an era of distrust relating to the war in Vietnam and the Watergate break-in and subsequent trials. Campuses throughout the country were involved in widespread discontent over governance and other issues. At Weber State College, issues that emerged which threatened the stability of the school included the process for curriculum changes, changes in the nature and control of general education, and policies and procedures for making administrative appointments (particularly school deans) and the process for review and possible change in such administrative positions. Bishop began initially to give the faculty more voice in college affairs including having the chair of the faculty Academic Council be an elected faculty member, but within two years after his initial appointment, the relationship between the faculty and the administration had deteriorated badly. For the next four years, the college made progress through the individual and collective efforts of faculty, staff, administrators, as well as members of the community, Institutional Council, and Board of Regents. President Bishop left Weber State College following the 1977-1978 school year to become a mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 1960s and 1970s were decades of improvement in faculty qualifications with many of Webers continuing faculty mov-ing toward achieving terminal degrees and emphasis was placed on hiring a well-trained and diverse faculty holding terminal degrees. With faculty and staff growth during this era, the college hired Albin Matson Jr. as its first personnel director in September of 1972. With the growth of the Police Science program on campus, a crime lab for analysis of materials related to the perpetration of crimes was established during the fall of 1972. The Weber College library joined with five other libraries in the state (University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Utah State University, Southern Utah State College, and Dixie College) to begin a program of cooperative borrowing during October of 1972 which was to benefit students and faculty at each institution. During November of 1972, three days of special events were planned to center on the inauguration of President Joseph Bishop, the first such observance in the history of the college. The inauguration activities included special performances by the Utah Symphony Orchestra and Ballet West, a faculty symposium, and a football game. The inauguration itself was highlighted by a speech by Duke University President Terry Sanford with responses from faculty, staff, students, alumni, community members, and the Institutional Council. Sanford called for a rebirth of humanism in his address. More than 100 colleges and universities throughout the nation were represented at the inauguration. During the 1972-1973 school year, Dwight Burrill was brought to the campus and was soon appointed to the position of academic development vice-president, and Jerald Storey became the academic operations vice-president. Former academic vice-president Helmut Hofmann was appointed director of the Center for Research and Development, but he left the institution shortly after this change to become academic vice-president at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. During the spring of 1973, the School of Allied Health Sciences was established on the Weber campus with Reed Stringham appointed dean of the school. During January of 1973, a special program was held on campus to celebrate the cease fire agreement halting the war in Vietnam. The program included speeches, patriotic songs, and bells ringing from the Stewart Tower. A womans Environ Institute was established on campus during February of 1973 to assist the campus and the community with educational resources concerning women and to sponsor educational studies about women. Jan Tyler, Dean of Women, was placed in charge of the program. A Stanford University study noted that Weber State College had the lowest faculty tenure rate in the state of Utah (42 tenured) while the College ranked high in faculty longevity at the institution, female to male ratio, and publication. Every year, through the late 1960s and the early part of the 1970s, between 20 and 40 new faculty members came to Weber. There were not nearly that many retirements, but faculty turnover from year to year and the need to meet the growing number of students were reasons to build the ranks of the faculty. An Honors Program was established in 1969 which was initially directed by Jennings G. Olson, until 1973 when Levi S. Peterson became the director of the program. Peterson served for nearly a decade until he was |