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A Follow-Up Study Of The Business Students Who Graduated From Intermountain School From 1966-68, Clark B. Child

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Brigham City, Utah, is the location of the largest boarding school sponsored by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. This institution, Intermountain School, is for the disadvantaged Navajo student who has resided on the Navajo reservation, which is located in the states of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Intermountain School is divided into different departments, such as guidance, elementary, high school, and vocational. Within the Vocational Department are several training programs. One of these programs is the Business Department. Students who select business as their vocational training program enroll during their junior year for three hours each day and …

The Trade Show: A Living Marketing Phenomenon, Russell F. Fjeldsted

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

In the first chapter of the Book of Esther, we are told of an exhibition created by King Ahasuerus. In the third year of his reign he staged a huge fair to display "the riches of his glorious Kingdom and the honor of his excellent Majesty." This event was a forerunner of today's world fair. It lasted "many days, even an hundred and fourscore days." Interestingly enough, that span equals exactly a current world's fair season.

Prophet Ezekiel in the ancient city of Tyre makes mention of its markets where wares were displayed--silver, iron, tin, horses, mules, precious stones, gold …

Inventory Of Economic Understanding Of Washington County, Utah, High School Seniors, 1968, Ronald B. Johnson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Economic, social, and political events in recent years have had a profound affect on American education in general and on business education in particular. Many challenges that have confronted the nation have spotlighted the need for greater economic literacy of the American people. Education has long included among its objectives the development of economic efficiency and responsible citizenship (Daughtrey, 1965).

Business education is concerned with two major aspects of the education of youth:

A. The knowledge, attitudes, and nonvocational skills needed by all persons to be effective in their personal economics and in their understanding of our economic system.

B. …

A Proposed Plan For A General Business Course At Sunset Utah Junior High School For Ninth-Grade Students, Renae G. Bodily

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

According to Maze, "A society that guarantees the social and political freedom of its members, through democratic means, and which extends this freedom into the realm of economics, may be expected to place a heavy responsibility upon its members to protect these freedoms through the exercise of sound choices among alternative means to desired ends." The educational means by which the individual learns of these alternatives must be provided.

Retail Shopping Center Development In Logan, Utah, Russell F. Fjeldsted

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Two stores side by side have, under the free enterprise system, usually more than twice the business of a single store. Merchants of the world recognize the value of this cumulative pull; it is implicit in every Main Street, every Fifth Avenue, every crossroads store group.

In this paper, we are interested in shopping centers, which are compound of the department store, the rural general store, the downtown shopping block, and a traditional street market. This new type of store group will usually be under single ownership, a dominating fact which will show itself through a certain architectural unity which …

A Study To Determine The Status Of Audio Learning Laboratories Used For Shorthand Instruction In Utah, Carol Mcpherson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This is the age of change or revolution . In the field of shorthand, we are also having a revolution . First of all, we have the new Diamond Jubilee Revision of Gregg Shorthand, which in itself is quite a revolution. However, it is probably in the area of new teaching media and equipment that the greatest revolution is taking place .

The importance of new equipment and teaching media has been accentuated by innovations in curriculum planning such as modular scheduling . An important feature" .. . of the modular program is that the unscheduled or 'free' time ranges …

A Study Of Data Processing Employment Opportunities For High School Graduates In The Ogden Area With Implications For Secondary Business Education, Val C. Stauffer

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

LaSalle found that while automation is increasing at an even accelerating pace, little emphasis is apparent in high school curriculums on the significance of automated processes for prospective office workers. He further stated that business education departments should study local situations and prepare students to qualify for available data processing employment.

The need for data processing training in the Ogden area is evident in the frequent requests by local employers for people trained in data processing.

A Study To Determine The Number, Type, And Requirements Of Office Entry-Level Jobs In Ogden, Utah, Banks, O. Shelby Cox

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This study was undertaken to determine the number, type, and requirements of entry-level office positions in Ogden, Utah, banks.

Questionnaires were taken to the participating banks in the Ogden, Utah, banking community. The responding banks indicated that they would consider recent high school graduates to all of the positions studied; however, a majority of the banks preferred to hire females rather than males to to the office positions studied.

All of the responding banks required some type of requirement for each of the office entry-level positions, and majority of the banks required a pre-employment test of the applicants. This information …