From Deseret News archives:
UVSC to keep open enrollment
President details plans for the transition to UVU
He outlined UVSC's mission in a presentation to the State Board of Regents' Planning Committee Friday at Salt Lake Community College.
Sederburg stressed the importance of meeting the community's needs by keeping two-year students, as well as those in technical education.
UVSC will remain an open-enrollment school and a teaching institution.
The university mission is to "prepare professionally competent people of integrity who, as lifelong learners and leaders, serve as stewards of a globally interdependent community," he said.
Sederburg outlined several changes, including reducing the average teaching load and adding advisers. The plan includes, among other things, implementing graduate programs in education, nursing and business; having a digital library; identifying economic development as an element; designating multiple campuses; and offering 30 new four-year degrees.
As it becomes a university, UVSC's goal is to create "communities of engaged learners connected in meaningful ways to the world we live in while developing students of strong character and ethics," Sederburg said.
Sederburg also explained why it's important to keep some elements of the Orem college intact.
Second-year students make up about 70 percent of UVSC's enrollment. They are the feeder students for the four-year programs. There are also about 3,000 students in UVSC's career technical education programs.
Getting rid of these students would be the "worst economic decision we could do," Sederburg said.
UVSC is modeling Weber State University and its two-year programs in terms of getting students from point A to point B, he said. "They've done a wonderful job of balancing those activities," Sederburg said.
Further, he said, maintaining status as an open-enrollment school is a must. UVSC's open enrollment will continue to meet the community's needs, as the school remains versatile and offers a wider array of services.
Fall enrollment was 23,840. Sederburg says UVSC will keep meeting the needs of the community as Utah County's population continues to rapidly grow. Also a cohort of young people who will soon be college age.
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