The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-03
UNIVERSITY TO ASK
FOR MORE MONEY
Will Request Next Legislature
to- Appropriate Sufficient
fors improvements.
HAS DEFICIT OF S25,Ooo
Expects to Enroll Almost Fif-
teen Hundred Students
This Year.

Prepared to present splendid rec
ord of accomplishment and need for
further facilities and enlarged activi'
ties officers Of the University of Utah
viii ask the next legislature to provide
more funds for the institution, whose
present resources have been found in
adequate to meet the demands OF the
upiversity's IS work.
Estimates show that the university
will have deficit Of about $4,000 for
the present school year, due to the
change in the rate of taxation from
four apd oue-half mills to four mills,
and the assessed valuation not reaching
the amount anticipated, unless more
funds are provided, curta,lment of
expenses and the postponement Of need
ed construction work, as well as the
limiting of the extension work actici'
ties of the institution, will be neces-
sary.
The university will probably have Il
total enrollmept of 1900 students this
wear, of whom about 1000 are residents
and the others extension students. The
law department. has forty-tive students
and the arts-mcdical school about sixty
FIVE. The teaching corps, excluding
those in the primary training. school
and some of the supervisors, has sew
cnty members. of whom thirty.siI are
native. born, Fifty-nine have degrees
from twenty other colleges and uniyer'
sites of the United States and Eu.
rope.
AS most of the teaching force are
Young or middle-aged persons, the per-
sonne1 is strong and progressive. as
we'll as cosmopolitan. There are thirty
professors, of whom thirteen have the
Ph.D. degree, representing three years
in addition to the four-yesr college
course. Nine have the masters degree,
representing one year in addition to
bachelors degree, representing four
wears Of college work. Three have no
degree. hut are men of ability.
Estimated Expenses.
Of the seven associate professors two
have the Ph. D. degree. three the mas.
tcr's and two the bachelor Two OF
the eight assistant professors have the
masters S degree and six the bachelor s.
OF the twenty-one instructors, one has
the Ph. D., two the masters, seven or
eight the bachelor 3. four the LIB and
two or three have no degree.
The estimated expenses for the pres.
ent school year amount to 25,973.4,
which, in addition to the salaries and
general expenses, must provide books,
magazines. charts, apparatus, machin'
cry and other supplies for thirty-six
departments. The university needs a
girls gymnasium to cost about $4,000;
an auditorium TO cost about $4,000;
$4,000 to complete the present gym
nasium and about $4,000. in addition
TO the $3o0,00o already appropriated
for the new central building, to com.
plcte the heating plant.
The extension work, which is regard
cd as of the highest practical value TO
the people of the state. is also in need |
of funds, as the Importance of this
work is becoming more generally roc
ogpized. and demands on the university
along this line are increasing rapidly |
The extension work comprises lectures |
and instruction in civic Improvement, |
water systems for cities. road ma kim |
and repairing, sewerage systems, sani-
tation. economies, history, language,
astronomy. psychology and other sub
iects. 1t is felt that at least $4,000 a |
wear should be made availab BILE for this