| OCR Text |
Show Continuing Education tion of a race desegregation plan; the development of methods of encouraging student, parent, and community support for, and involvement in the race desegregation process, as well as other related race desegregation activities. Sex Desegregation Assistance Center —The Sex Desegregation Assistance Center is a Weber State College sponsored project funded by the U.S. Department of Education as legislated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act as ammended. The Center provides training and technical assistance to public school districts in Region VIII (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota). The SDAC provides training and technical assistance in the preparation, adoption, and implementation of plans for sex desegregation including Title IX requirements. Authorized activities include the following: a) The development of programs that will enhance the understanding of problems of sex bias in education by public school personnel; b) The identification of sex bias and sex role stereotype in textbooks and other curricular materials, and the development of methods of countering their effects on students; c) The use of counseling materials and techniques that do not discriminate on the basis of sex; d) The preparation and dissemination to parents and students of materials explaining to requirments of Title IX, and; e) The recruitment of women and men for employment in public schools in positions in which they are under-represented. 414 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES Bookstore — The College Bookstore, located on the ground floor of the Union Building is the source for all college text books and supplies. The Bookstore is open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. until 5p.m. Wednesday through Friday. During the first week of the quarter the Bookstore is open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The Bookstore is open from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. during the summer. During the first two weeks of summer quarter it will be open on Monday and Tuesday evening until 7 p.m. Buildings and Ground Service —For the student's classwork and activities the College provide an adequate physical plant and a buildings and grounds staff which maintain an environment that is comfortable, healthful and wholesome. Physical Plant offices and shops are located in the Maintenance Building. The Office of Architectural Services provides master planning and other architectural service for the campus. This office is located in Annex 7 on the corner of 4100 South and Harrison. Cultural Arts Program —The Office of Cultural Affairs annually presents a liberal cultural arts program. Through this program ennobling thoughts and great ideas are expressed and communicated by means of the media of sight and sound. The various publics of the campus and community may receive cultural arts experience through the fine and performing arts. These arts enrich the campus-community publics. The cultural arts calendar includes diversified activities, events and programs relating to the presentation, performance, execution and exhibition of major art forms and productions which have substantial artistic and cultural significance. Through these numerous offerings the College has brought to the campus-community many internationally and nationally known celebrities in the areas of the humanities, arts, sciences, and public affairs. These cultural arts bookings are in addition to the College's own numerous and excellent musical and theatrical productions and art exhibits. It is in this spirit and in these modes of cultural contagions the College serves as a well-established, college-community-cultural-academic-artistic- dynamic enterprise. Museum —Weber State College Musuem of Natural Science is located on the main floor of the Lind Lecture Hall. Exhibits represent the various areas of interest from the science department as organized by the Museum director. The museum is an excellent educational facility for all visitors. In addition to Weber State College students, hundred of elementary and secondary school children visit the museum regularly. Items of interest include dinorsaur skeletons, a saber-tooth tiger and other animal skeletons, rock and mineral displays, aquaria, dioramas, displays of plant and animal evolution and adaptations, a petroglyph exhibit, and a remote sensing weather station. The museum is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, except on Holidays. 415 |
