Snow College Students Score High

The CAAP test results are in: Once again, the average Snow College Student starts college with a score below average on the math portion of the ACT and finishes college well above average on the math portion of the CAAP test. The same is true for the other two "R"s--reading and writing. Snow College is a great place to get a quality education.

Back in School

We are back in school this fall with close to 20% increase in students over last fall--despite the fact that our state budget has been cut 17%, due to the decline in state tax revenues.

The Second Floor

Here workers place the decking for the second floor of the Karen H. Huntsman Library. There will be one more floor about this one by the time they finish. The steel work should be completed by the end of next month.

The Basement

Here is a shot of the basement in the Karen H. Huntsman Library with the circular staircase in the background.

The Circular Staircase

This is a shot of the contractors at work putting together the frame for the circular staircase in the Karen H. Huntsman Library. This staircase leads from the basement up all the way up to the third floor and will have a beautiful glass handrail. The four floors of open space will be a nice little “wow” in the library. Layton Construction tells us 1/3 of the library is completed and they are on schedule for a June completion.

Bachelor's Degree at Snow College?

This is fun. Yesterday the Board of Regents amended the definition of Snow College to include language from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions which includes the following: “Comprehensive Community Colleges (Associate’s Colleges) generally include institutions where all degrees are at the associate’s level, or where bachelor’s degrees account for less than 10 percent of all undergraduate degrees.” This language is consistent with the emerging trend generally referred to as Community College Baccalaureates.

This amendment makes possible a limited number of baccalaureate programs at Snow College while maintaining its primary mission as a two-year college. Approval of baccalaureate programs for Snow College will still take considerable effort. But it is now possible. We will bring forward a proposal within the next 12 months to begin our first bachelor’s degree—most likely a music education degree.

Mount Everest

53 years ago yesterday Sir Edmond Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest. Last week one of my old climbing partners, Bruce Parker, summated Mount Everest completing his goal to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. We did two of them together--Mount McKinley and Kilimanjaro. This photo is of us on McKinley--he is in red, I am in yellow. Congratulations Bruce!!!