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Title	History of the efforts to coordinate higher education in Utah
Publication Type	dissertation
School or College	College of Education
Department	Educational Leadership & Policy
Author	Hair, Mary Jane Stewart
Date	1974
Description	This historical study identified the efforts made that led to the coordination of higher education in Utah, culminating in the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1969, the creation of the State Board of Higher Education and the appointment of Dr. G. Home r Durham as the first Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Utah. The reports of Committees that were created by the Legislature with their recommendations for coordination were examined. Information obtained from a review of original documents and of the related literature was utilized in obtaining an overview of the development of administrative policies and philosophies of other states which had coordinated their higher education institutions. Coordination and centralized control of higher education is not a new movement, especially in the state of Utah. The Pioneers, under the leadership of Brigham Young through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, developed control of education very early in Utah. The University of Deseret, now the University of Utah, was founded in 1850. The Utah State University, as the Agricultural College, was founded in 1888. At the Constitutional Convention in 1896, the unification of these two institutions was considered, but failed. Several Bills were introduced in the Utah Legislature attempting to combine the governing boards of institutions two institutions under one board but were never passed. The first attempt at a single board was the Coordinating Board of Higher Education in 1957 that turned out to be more of a study which recommended the establishment of the Coordinating Council of Higher Education which was created by the 1959 Legislature. The Council could exercise leadership, give direction in planning, define the role and program of the institutions, establish criteria for determining budgets, study new methods of instruction for better use of educational facilities, but without the authority to control. The Higher Education Act of 1969 created the State Board of Higher Education and abolished the governing boards for the institutions. It created the Utah System of Higher Education which included; University of Utah, Utah State University, Weber State College, Snow College, College of Southern Utah, Dixie College, College of Eastern Utah, and the Utah Technical Colleges at Provo and Salt Lake City. Each institution now has its own Institutional Council.
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Publisher	University of Utah
Dissertation Name	Doctor of Philosophy
Language	eng
Rights Management	© Mary Jane Stewart Hair
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OCR Text	Show 296 SECTION 20. Employees removable. of the officer, or pleasure of the board. employee SECTION 21. energy--fix Any professor, instructor, college shall be removable at the Authority make to contracts The board rates--collections--funds. for electrical of trustees shall have power and authority to make such contracts as shall be proper and reasonable with individuals or private or municipal corporations for the purpose of transmitting electric energy from the State power plant in Logan canyon to the Utah State Agricultural College and experiment stations and to other State institutions, including the industrial school, the Utah school for the deaf and the blind, the University of Utah, the State prison, and the State capitol, and the said board is further authorized and empowered fix to a charge plus transmission charges ope-fourth per kilowatt hour for the current used by any of the said institutions, and monthly of not to exceed one to make and from each of said institutions. deposited IIState State with the State cents collections All funds treasurer in a Fund,1I and the board Agricultural College may use said Power Plant in connection with necessary expenses of said power plant. Any surplus in so of all such fund to be known of trustees operation the as of the Utah payment of fund for the the charges collected shall be all and maintenance said fund at the end of each fiscal year shall be by the State board of examiners up as a reserve fund for said power plant. ordered set The academic year shall consist Academic year. SECTION 22. nine calendar of not less than months, and it may be divided into in its board as the such terms by judgment will best secure the objects for which the college SECTION 23. study in the Utah Course State was founded. of study--term. Agricultural The full course of of not less College shall be than four years. The courses of study study defined. shall agriculture, College comprise Agricultural animal science, veterinary industry, forestry, horticulture, agricultural domes t i c science and art, commerce, civil engineering mechanic arts and and science tactics, military engineering, SECTION 24. in the Courses of Utah State , and the various arts and sciences basic to these courses. The Utah State Agricultural College may give courses for the pre to meet paration of teachers in the foregoing subjects such as education. of board the State of the certification pedagogy, But the Utah State the profession of requirements in Agricultural College shall not offer courses or engineering, except agricultural law, medicine,
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