WEBER COLLEGE 15 GENERAL INFORMATION Purpose Weber College is a Junior College. Weber College is a two-year institution of college grade which offers professional and cultural courses leading to degrees offered at higher institutions, and semi-professional and cultural courses of a strictly terminal character which are designed especially for students who intend to complete their formal educational training at the end of their college sophomore year. It is, therefore, both a terminal and a lower division college educational institution. The purpose of Weber College is five-fold. 1. It offers opportunities for a college education to high school graduates or adults who desire to avail themselves of its geographic and economic advantages. 2. It stresses the formulation of character building ideals. It emphasizes training for citizen ship. It pays attention to the development of a higher appreciation of culture and to the acquisition of values that will enable a student to enjoy better his leisure as well as his vocational interests. 3. It assists the student, through an effective guidance system, to find himself and his place in the complex society of which he is a part, by giving him constant informational and inspirational direction along all lines of activities. In other words, the objective of the College is not the mere formal presentation of subject matter, the mere emphasis upon an acquisition of facts, but it is essentially the education of the student. 4. It offers professional and cultural courses leading toward advanced degrees. These courses parallel similar courses given at standard universities. 5. It endeavors, through specially designed terminal, semi-professional, cultural, and occupational courses to satisfy the needs of those who are not interested in college graduation.