Board of Regents meeting minutes, 1919-1921

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121. The following report of the committee relative to the Committee's (Dr. Thomas (F.S.Harris) Interpreta- agreements between the University of Utah and the Utah Agricultural College were read. Logan, Utah, August 17, 1920. tion of the U0 Of Us " U.A.C. AGREEMENT. "To the Presidents of the university of Utah and the Utah Agricultural College. Gentlemen: Your committee appointed to interpret the agreement between.the Utah Agricultural College and the University of Utah as published in this year's catalogues respecting the.teaching of Home Economics at the University of Utah, begs leave to make the following report. 1. Your committee is not attempting to define the mean- ing of the law nor to change the agreement but merely to VJ interpret the agreement. 2. we recommend that both institutions publish the addition to the agreement affecting extension work, in their annual catalogues and that the wording should be made identical. Since at present there is a slight discrepancy in the wording, we recommend the joint adoption of the fellowing: "Extension courses may be established at either institu- tion by the other, the extension teachers to be selected by the institution in charge of the work under the law and under this agreement and the extension plans and teachers are to be agreed upon by the proper officials of both institutions. "The institution doing the work by extension shall be reSponsible for the organization and operation of the work and the institution giving the work shall be credited for the work so given in the published catalogue of the instie tution in which such extension courses are offered." 5. We recommend that the institution at which the ex- tension work is done pay the expenses connected with it, provided that the funds for Smith-Hughes work, which are not considered here, may be assigned to either by the State Board of Education. 4. we recommend that the "elementary courses in Domestic Science and Domestic Art-~high school courses"--referred to in the aforesaid agreement, which may be given by the University of Utah without the supervision of the Agricul- tural College, be considered essentially the courses, or their equivalent, of those outlined in the University of Utah catalogue for 1916-17 and that any additional courses