1942 GaUsuHctf, 1943 To the Prospective Student of Weber College Before a student registers at, Weber College, he shotild carefully read the information in this Bulletin. If it is not clear, he should come to the College and have a personal conference, or he should write to the Registrar for an answer to his questions. A prospective student should have his credits forwarded from the high school or college from which he intends to transfer, so that his record will be on file in the Registrar's office by September 1, 1942. Pre-registration is a conference method inaugurated at Weber College to avoid the problems attendant upon mass registration, and to insure opportunity for giving individual attention to the program of each student. For the year 1942-1943, pre-registration dates and other important dates, in the Weber College Calendar are as follows: Summer Quarter June 8 ...Registration for Summer Quarter June 9 —Instruction begins for Summer Quarter July 4— Independence Day July 24 Pioneer Day August 21. — — .....Close of Summer Quarter Autumn Quarter September 14-October 1 Pre-registration for Autumn Quarter October 2 (Forenoon) .....Freshman' Day October 2 (Afternoon) ..Final Registration for Autumn Quarter October 5 Instruction begins for Autumn Quarter November 11 Armistice Day and Weber College Homecoming Day November 28-29 —_ Recess for Thanksgiving December 1-18 Pre-registration for Winter Quarter December 19-27 Recess for Christmas December 31 — Close of Autumn Quarter Winter Quarter January 2.. ...Final Registration for Winter Quarter January 4 Instruction begins for Winter Quarter January 7 __ Founders' Day February 22 Washington's Birthday March 1-18 Pre-registration for Spring Quarter March 19 Close of Winter Quarter Spring Quarter March 20 „ Final Registration for Spring Quarter March 22. Instruction begins for Spring Quarter May 30— _ _ Baccalaureate Service June 4— Fifty-fifth Commencement Exercise 1889 Welte* (Sollefe 1$42 History and Accreditation Weber College, founded as an academy in the year 1883, was organized as a junior college in 1922-1923 and transferred to the State of Utah In 1933. Since that time it has been a state-supported junior college operated under the direction of the Utah State Board of Education. Accredited as a junior college in 1932 by the Northwest Asscciction of Secondary and Higher Schools, and later affiliated with the American Association of Junior Colleges and the American Council of Education, Weber College is fully recognized by institutions of higher learning. Its Civilian Pilot Training Program, Navy V-l Program, and Army Air Program are approved and accredited by the proper federal and military authorities. Recent acknowledgment of the work of Weber College in terminal education was made in 1940 when it was selected by the General Board of Education as one of nine colleges in the United States to receive a grant for cooperative study of terminal education courses, a grant which is extending its benefits to the institution at the present time. Purpose Organized as a two-year state junior college offering two years of lower division college preparatory work and two years or less of terminal work, Weber College serves at least five major groups of students: (1) those preparing for upper division standing in institutions of higher learning, (2) those seeking a cultural education in courses that terminate at the end of the college sophomore year, (3) those desiring two years of semi-professional, trade and industrial, business, or other vocational training that will qualify them to enter the commercial and industrial world, (4) those needing short-term courses and cooperative programs, arid (5) those taking officer- training courses for the armed forces while continuing one of the above four regular programs. Weber College promotes, as its primary purpose, the development of its students along socially desirable lines. It accepts as its first obligation the undergirding of American democracy through the development of an enlightened citizenry and through full cooperation with and participation in the War Effort . It also shares with the community and the home responsibility for the development in its students of personality and ethical character. Educational Philosophy Weber College follows a philosophy which maintains that education should prepare a student to make both a life and a living. The instructors, therefore, teach academic courses with their vocational values in mind, and vocational courses with the aim of promoting every opportunity for rounded cultural development. It is the belief of the Faculty that such procedure is possible without sacrificing the purpose or the unique pattern of either the terminal or the college preparatory courses. The College subscribes, also, to the changing emphasis in education: from subject matter to student growth, from subject content to student needs, from the accumulaion of information as an end in itself to the modification of behavior. Yet along with this liberalization of its purposes and offerings, it persistently seeks to maintain high standards of scholarship and performance in all fields.