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Show WEBER STATE COLLEGE Weber State College is a public four-year baccalaureate degree granting college. Its main purpose is service to the people of Utah through teaching, research, and public service. The objective of Weber State College is to use at all times the resources at its disposal so as best to equip its students with the varied knowledge and skills they need in order to face effectively their lives today and tomorrow. The measure of the quality of Weber State College is the degree to which its policies, plans, and acts respond to this public trust. Weber State College was founded at Ogden, Utah, as Weber Stake Academy on January 7, 1889, by the Weber Stake Board of Education of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 1933 Utah Legislature established Weber as a state junior college and placed it under the control of the Utah State Board of Education. In 1959 the Utah Legislature authorized the addition of upper division courses which action resulted in the first junior class in 1962-63 and the first senior class in 1963-64. The 1969 Legislature created a Utah System of Higher Education and placed Weber along with all other state institutions of higher learning under a State Board of Regents and an Institutional Council, the members of which are appointed by the Governor of the State. As a member of the State System, Weber State College serves as a large, four-year college near the center of the state population. It offers undergraduate liberal education in the arts, humanities, and sciences; authorized professional work in education, business and technology; specialized training in the allied health sciences and trade-technical education. The College serves as a center for continuing education, providing evening classes, summer school, special conferences, and workshops. In filling its role Weber State College also provides a wide range of co-curricular activities, including drama, athletics, music, forensics, student government, clubs, etc. The College is dedicated to the principle that through education man finds realization of his potential as a human being. Man achieves this potential through various means; therefore, Weber State College provides as wide a variety of approaches to the process of education as possible. Emphasis is placed upon self-directed study on the part of the student, understanding that in the final analysis education is gained not given. To achieve its purposes, Weber State College is organized into seven resident schools with 32 departments and a Division of Continuing Education. An Honors Program and a Learning Center are organized to provide individualized assistance to students. An enrollment of approximately 10,000 day and evening students is housed in 32 buildings on a campus of 375 acres. Approximately 88% of the total building space has been constructed since 1960. Excellent laboratories, an outstanding Fine Arts Center and a spacious library are special features. A well-trained faculty of nearly 425 serves a student community enrolled from all areas of Utah, from nearly all of the states, and from several foreign countries. A fifteen-member State Board of Regents governs the State System of Higher Education. A nine-member Institutional Council has the responsibility of implementing the roles assigned by the Board of Regents, including the appointment of personnel and the enactment of rules and governing regulations. The College is administered by the president, the president's council, the administrative council, the faculty senate, and the faculty. Weber State College is a member of the American Council on Education and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. It is accredited by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education and is listed by other state and national accrediting agencies. Weber State College is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in student admissions, student financial assistance, and faculty and staff employment and advancement, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Evidence of practices which are not consistent with this policy should be reported to the Office of the President of the College. 7 |
