252 Division of Continuing Education Non-credit Many courses will be offered for those students who are interested only in recreation or in professional and personal development and do not wish credit. Continuing Education Unit The Continuing Education Unit will be offered for selected courses for students wishing or needing to keep a record of education activities other than those directed toward certification or degree. One Continuing Education Unit is awarded for ten contact hours of participation in an organized Continuing Education activity under responsible sponsorship, and quality instruction. Programs The Division of Continuing Education offers the College and community a focal point for planning, promoting, and coordinating conferences, seminars, workshops, travel study tours, and special interest classes. Experienced coordinators will efficiently and inexpensively handle such details as facilities and housing; food services, including banquets; advertising, parking permits, mailing lists, printing of materials, registration service, and special entertainment. Drawing from the great expertise of the faculty, the Continuing Education Office can, upon short notice and at your convenience, address almost any subject to any extent desired with a specially designed seminar or workshop. The office also specializes in providing subjects for teacher recertification. In addition, the usual agenda of pertinent subjects and activities, (both credit and non-credit) will be offered on a continuing basis. Classes taught off the campus are designed to provide credit and non-credit educational opportunities to groups off the campus who wish to pursue a degree program or to improve their vocational and personal competency. Classes are held Monday through Saturday at times convenient for the requesting group. The College cooperates with the various governmental installations, businesses, and civic groups in planning and presenting specific courses to meet the needs of employees. It also operates as an administrative center to provide coordination between College departments and special programs such as Corrections and Law Enforcement, Hill Air Force Base Center, etc. Corrections and Law Enforcement Working directly with the Department of Corrections and Law Enforcement, Continuing Education helps meet the role given to Weber State College by the Board of Regents to provide Corrections and Law Enforcement education programs throughout the State. Programs are established at various locations throughout the state which give law enforcement officers an opportunity to complete classes required for a degree. Hill Air Force Base Center Because of the large number of employees at Hill Air Force Base, a special center has been established in cooperation with the Military Education Office at Hill. Its purpose is to provide a general core of educational classes to meet the needs of their employees. Also, a special curriculum, or packages of classes, are developed to meet requirements of special groups at the Base. Community Services Community Services is an extension of the College which seeks to determine and meet community needs. Community Service staff members provide College faculty and students the opportunity to assist in the solution of a variety of short-range and long-range community problems identified by citizens and organizations. For example, the behind-the-scenes efforts of Community Service personnel, College faculty, and students has resulted in the establishment of a community-based Corrections Center for Women in northern Utah; the passing of the Spouse Abuse Act by the 1979 Utah Legislature which gives more protection to abused spouses by more accurately defining the role of law enforcement, the judiciary, and the Department of Social Services; a more solid funding base for services to victims of domestic violence. Beyond their catalytic and technical assistant roles, Community Service staff, with the assistance of the Office of Grants and Contracts has aided communities in locating supporting funds for service projects that are outside the role of the College. More direct services include financial and housing counseling for persons referred to Housing and Urban Development in Northern Utah, the Weber State College Achievement Home for boys adjudicated as seriously delinquent by the First Direct Juvenile Court, and training programs for the Utah Department of Social Services. Race Desegregation Assistance Center The Race Desegregation Assistance Center is a Federally funded program under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as amended. The Center provides technical assistance and training to Public School Districts in Region VIII (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota). The Center strives to provide a relatively stable source of desegregation assistance and inservice training to school districts within Region VIII. The RDAC is geared to provide assistance in preparation and adoption of race desegregation plans, identification of education problems that have arisen or that may arise, from the implementation 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. 253 Vocational and Technical Education Allied Health Continuing Education This program strives to help health workers keep up with advances in their specialty, to provide primary training for new roles, to aid in meeting educational requirements for accreditation and recertification and in general provide whatever refresher training is needed. This is accomplished through short courses, workshops, conferences, and seminars presented both on campus and in the rural areas of the Intermountain West. 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 amended. 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 requirements of Title IX, and; (e) The recruitment of women and men for employment in public schools in positions in which they are under-represented. Vocational and Technical Education Director: Paul G. Butterfield Location: Administration Building, Room 304 Telephone: 626-6067 Vocational and Technical Education includes those vocational programs of less than a baccalureate degree. The Office of Vocational and Technical Education provides the following functions: 1. A link between the College and employers, agencies and citizens through a representative vocational advisory council. 2. Exploration of new program possibilities with the schools of the College to develop training programs for clients who wish to develop employable skills and attitudes which are compatible with job opportunities in business and industry in the local area and in the state. 3. A link between the College and staffs of the State Board for Vocational Education and the State Board of Regents for statistical and fiscal reporting and program information. 4. Direction of vocational affairs for the College as staff to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Vocational Advisory Council Members Chairperson: Dean Childs Kent Ballantyne James M. Bromley Jim Brown Larry Calvert Dean Childs Sheron Christensen Rick DeMoss Lionel Drechsel Wendy Gaddis Fred Galvez David Hardman Pamela Hernandez Cal Jeanselme Kenneth W. Jones LaNae Jones Tom Lewis Karl Macfarlane Erbey Satterfield Roger Smith Barry Sneddon Robert B. Smith Jack Schell Brent Wallis Charles Winn McKay Dee Hospital Job Service Mt. Fuel Supply Co. Parker Hannifin Corp. Bourns, Inc. Weber Co. Schools WSC Faculty Ogden City Schools Logan Regional Hospital Member-at-large ZCMI Rehabilitation Serv. Weber Ind. Dev. Corp. Jones/Richards & Assoc. Shepherd Manufacturing Co. Plumbers & Pipefitters Union National Battery Sales Business Reg. Office Williams International IOMEGA WSC Admin, ex-officio Davis AVC, ex-officio Ogden-Weber AVC, ex-officio USOVE, ex-officio