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USU President Stan Albrecht and Others Address Higher-Education Issues on Tuesday's Access Utah

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We’ll address issues in Higher Education on Tuesday’s Access Utah.  How did Utah’s colleges and universities fare at the Utah legislature? How best to plan for the change in age requirements for LDS missionaries? What does the future of higher education look like? Will we see more online classes, video conferencing and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs?) Will these new methods of teaching and learning displace traditional face-to-face classrooms? Should they?

How to control increasing costs and debt for students? How do we better prepare high school students for college, and college students for jobs and life?  What should be the basic elements of a good college education? We’ll address these issues with Utah State University President Stan Albrecht in the first half and continue the discussion in the second half with Southern Utah University President Michael Benson and Westminster College President Brian Levin-Stankevich.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.