Weber State University

Weber State University
founding	1889, 1964, 1991
Sponsorship	Public
place	Ogden (Utah) , United States
president	Brad L. Mortensen
Students	26,681
Employee	1465
including professors	344
Annual budget	US $ 149.0 million (2018)
University sports	Big Sky Conference NCAA Division I FCS
Website	weber.edu

Weber State University Bell Tower and Mount Ogden (left), 2019

The Weber State University is a state university in Ogden in the US state of Utah . The campus university's area of ​​over 200 hectares is picturesquely situated below the Wasatch range . It is a co-educational, publicly funded university that offers professional, art and technical certificates as well as associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees. 92 percent of the more than 25,000 students come from Utah, the rest from all US states, but also from more than 60 other countries. The lecturer to student ratio is 21 to 1. Weber State University, which has 7 other locations in addition to the main campus, is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities . The college was founded in 1889 as the Weber Stake Academy . The colors of the university are purple and white. In the regional rankings ( Regional Universities West, Top Public Schools ) the university is now in 40th place; internationally it has moved up from the group of the top 800 to the top 600 since 2017 and is ranked 239 in America's Best Value Colleges 2019 .

history

Statue of Louis F. Moench in front of the Bell Tower and Mount Ogden, 2019

The early years (1898-1924)

Weber State University was founded by the Christian community The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as Weber Stake , from the name of a well-known fur trader named John Henry Weber . The university first opened its doors to students on January 7, 1889, with 98 students enrolled per class. The first rector of the weaver was Louis F. Moench from Neuffen in Baden-Württemberg , who kept the title from 1889 to 1892 and again from 1894 to 1902. In that year Moench lost his position, which was entrusted to David O. McKay until 1908. Weber Stake Academy adopted purple and white as school colors in 1902. The Academy's first newspaper publication, The Acorn , appeared in 1904. In the same year, the physics students sent an exhibition to the 1904 World's Fair . Participants in the fair included John Philip Sousa , Helen Keller and Geronimo .

At the beginning of the 20th century the school changed its name several times, initially to Weber Academy. In 1912, preparatory courses were removed from the curriculum and only high school courses were offered.

From 1918 to 1924 it was called Weber Normal College.

Weber College (1924–1962)

In 1933 the academy was named a state junior college. After World War II, the college grew beyond its downtown campus and moved to its current location at the base of the Wasatch Mountains overlooking Ogden and the Great Salt Lake. In 1951, the university permanently moved to southeast Ogden, a city where it is still based today.

Weber State College (1963-1991)

The school became Weber State College in 1963 . Weber State College awarded his first bachelor's degree in 1964.

Weber State University (1991)

On January 1, 1991, it received university status and thus its current name. Weber State University has grown to be one of the premier universities in the Utah and vicinity, with students from all over America and around the world.

In the 1990s, the WSU basketball team achieved two important victories in March Madness . In 1995, as the No. 14 seed, the team defeated Michigan State University with a score of 79-72. Four years later, again as a 14th seed, the WSU men's basketball team defeated North Carolina Central University's number 3 with 76-74. In 1997, Weber State University Davis opened.

In 2002 F. Ann Millner becomes the first female president of WSU and remains so for 10 years.

Rectors of the University

Principals of Weber Stake Academy

• 1889-1892 Louis F. Moench
• 1892-1893 Emil B. Isgreen
• 1893-1894 George F. Phillips
• 1894-1902 Louis F. Moench

Principals of Weber Academy

• 1902-1908 David O. McKay
• 1908-1910 Wilford M. McKendrick
• 1910-1914 William W. Henderson
• 1914-1917 James L. Barker
• 1917–1918 Owen F. Beal (Principal)

Presidents of Weber Normal College

• 1918–1919 Owen F. Beal (President)
• 1919–1920 Henry Aldous Dixon
• 1920-1922 Joel E. Ricks

Presidents of Weber College

• 1922-1935 Aaron W. Tracy
• 1935-1937 Leland W. Creer
• 1937-1953 Henry Aldous Dixon

Presidents of Weber State College

• 1953-1972 William P. Miller
• 1972-1988 Joseph L. Bishop
• 1978-1985 Rodney H. Brady
• 1985–1990 Stephen D. Nadauld

Presidents of Weber State University

• 1990-2002 Paul H. Thompson
• 2002-2012 F. Ann Millner
• 2013-2018 Charles A. Wight
• 2018-2019 Standard Tarbox (acting)
• since 2019 Brad L. Mortensen

Enrolled students

The number of students has been increasing since 2006. In 2018 there were 28,247 and in 2019 there were 26,681. This means that there are about 5,000 more students at Weber State in 2019 than in the same enrollment period a decade ago.

campus

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  Elizabeth Hall

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  Lampros Hall

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  Wattis Business Building

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  Stewart Library

University locations

Weber State Downtown, 2015

Weber State University has a total of eight locations:

• Weber State University, Ogden campus
• Weber State University Davis
• Morgan Center
• West Center in Roy
• Center for Continuing Education
• Weber State Downtown
• Weber State Farmington Station
• Community Education Center

University building

The university is divided into a total of seven colleges, each of which is divided into different departments.

The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences is located in the Lindquist Hall, which opened in early 2019, at the southwest end of the campus. It is divided into nine departments: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work and Sociology. It also contains some smaller subjects such as Asian Studies.

The College of Science is divided into seven departments: botany, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, mathematics, microbiology, physics and zoology.

The Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities consists of five departments: English, Visual Art and Design, Foreign Languages, Performing Arts and Communication.

• College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology
• John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics
• Jerry and Vickie Moyes College of Education
• Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions

In addition to these primary schools, the university offers several structured interdisciplinary programs. This includes:

• Asian Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• European Studies
• Latin American Studies
• law Sciences
• Neuroscience
• City and regional planning
• Women's research

building

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  Tracy Hall, 2019

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  Lindquist Hall, 2019

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  Browning Center, 2019

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  Shepherd Union, 2019

The main buildings on the campus:

• Browning Center
• Elizabeth Hall
• Lampros Hall
• Lindquist Hall
• Lind Lecture
• Marriott Health
• McKay Education
• Miller Administration
• Shepherd Union
• Stewart Bell Tower
• Stewart Library
• Swenson Building
• Wattis Business

Other facilities

Dee Events Center, 2008		Inside the Dee Events Center, 2006

The Dee Events Center is a multifunctional indoor arena in Ogden. The circular domed arena with 11,592 seats was opened in 1977 after two years of construction and named after the Lawrence T. Dee family because of their extensive contributions to the construction of the arena. The largest arena in Utah north of Salt Lake City, it is home to the Weber State University Wildcats men's and women's basketball teams. The women's volleyball team was also housed here until 2006. The venue has hosted the Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournaments ten times : 1979, 1980, 1984, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2014. It hosted three first and second round NCAA tournament games, 1980 , 1986 and 1994, still the West Regionals 1983. At the end of the 1995/1996 season a new basketball court floor was laid. In the summer of 2010 a Pro-Star Vision Screen Scoreboard was installed, which has 4 HD LCD screens and additional full LED displays. There are 3000 parking spaces in the vicinity of the center, which are connected to the main campus of the university via a permanent shuttle service.

The Ott Planetarium is a Weber State University planetarium named after Layton P. Ott and his family. The star theater of the Ott Planetarium offers space for 60 people under a perforated aluminum dome with a diameter of 9.1 meters. Images and videos are projected from the center of the room onto the dome with a single projector and backed by 5.1-channel surround sound. In December 2004, the Ott Planetarium upgraded its main projection system from a 1969 Spitz A4 to a Konica Minolta Mediaglobe fulldome video system . In 2006, the planetarium received $ 1 million for educational program development. Some of this money was used to buy a 128 CPU render cluster and workstations to produce star shows. The first known astronomical investigation from Ogden was an observation of a passage of Mercury in front of the sun on May 6, 1878.

• Swenson Gym
• The Ice Sheet at Ogden
• Stewart Stadium

Financing, asset management

• Weber State Credit Union

Student media

Weber State University has an independent, student-run newspaper, The Signpost , which appears Mondays and Thursdays. The students also operate the online radio station KWCR - Weber FM , an Ogden radio station. The editorial office of the national literary and cultural journal Weber Studies is based at Weber State University.

Sports

Weber State University Stadium to the Northeast, 2019

The Weber State sports teams are the Wildcats . The university is a member of the Big Sky Conference .

• Al DeWitt , Wildcats basketball player 1972-1976
• Ben Howland (born 1957), Wildcats basketball player 1978–1980
• Phil Johnson , basketball player, Wildcats co-trainer 1964–1968, coach 1968–1971
• Damian Lillard , Wildcats basketball player 2008–2012
• Dick Motta (born 1931), basketball player, Wildcats coach in the 1960s
• Slobodan Ocokoljić , Wildcats basketball player 2002-2004
• Alfred Pupunu (born 1969), American football player
• Sarah Sellers (* 1991), long-distance runner, runner-up in the 2018 Boston Marathon
• Mike Zimmer , coach 1982–1988
• Professor Tanaka (1930-2000), wrestler, boxer

Personalities

Famous Graduates

• Loren Allred (* 1989), singer
• Nolan D. Archibald (* 1943), CEO of Black & Decker
• Mark Evans Austad (1917–1988), American Ambassador
• Philip Barlow (born 1950), historian
• Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981), first female history professor at the University of California
• Donald H. Clausen (1923–2015), politician, from 1963 to 1983 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives
• Kent Dawson (born 1944), judge at the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
• Tracy Hall (1919–2008), chemist, was one of the first to synthesize diamonds
• Lynn Jenkins (* 1963), politician (Republican), has represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives since January 2009
• David M. Kennedy (1905–1996), Treasury Secretary in Richard Nixon's cabinet
• Boyd Kirkland (1950–2011), film director and animator
• John Willard Marriott (1900–1985), founder of Marriott International
• Ben McAdams (* 1974), Mayor of Salt Lake County
• Ray Noorda (1924-2006), CEO of Novell
• Boyd K. Packer (1924-2015)
• Douglas R. Stringfellow (1922–1966), politician, 1953–1955 he represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives
• John H. Vandenberg - 9th Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Ernest L. Wilkinson (1899–1978), President of Brigham Young University

Honorary doctorate

The first honorary doctorate was awarded in 1965 to David O. McKay . Additional honorary doctorates were awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1988, for example , and Weber State University currently honors around four to five people each year.

Exchange programs

The university maintains exchange programs with the German universities in Bayreuth , Munich and Tübingen .

Transport links

The WSU has numerous, large asphalt parking spaces. Many bus routes in the direction of Ogden city center also go to the stations on campus. Line 603 connects WSU directly with Ogden Downtown.

Others

The Weber State University in Ogden has been successfully using the music of the winner Bernward Koch (* 1957) in its anti-stress center for years. From 1990 to 1998 the university operated the amateur radio satellite OSCAR 18 , later its successor JAWSAT (Oscar 39).

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  Panorama of WSU Ogden to the northeast, 2019

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  Weber State University Ogden to Northeast, 2019

literature

• William P. Miller: Weber College: 1888 to 1933 . Ogden, Utah 1975, OCLC 875475621 .
• Leland H. Monson: History of debate at Weber State College. Weber State College, Ogden, UT [1972?], OCLC 46965546 .
• Richard W. Sadler: Weber State College: a centennial history. Weber State College, Salt Lake City 1988, ISBN 0-916095-26-6 .
• Paul H. Thompson: A commitment to learning: Weber State University 1889-1993. Newcomen Society of the United States, New York 1993, OCLC 30603697 .

(Co-) edited journals

• The Journal of World History . (founded 1990), ISSN  1527-8050
• Weber. The Contemporary West. (founded 1983), ISSN  0891-8899

Web links

Commons : Weber State University  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Weber State University (English)
• The Signpost (English)

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ WSU website , accessed on October 10, 2019.
3. ↑ Color Palette. Retrieved December 21, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Website usnews.com (English), accessed on October 2, 2019.
5. ↑ Regional Rankings , accessed on October 2, 2019.
6. ↑ THE World University Ranking , accessed on October 2, 2019.
7. ↑ Forbes Ranking , accessed on October 2, 2019.
8. ↑ Timeline on the university website , viewed on October 2, 2019.
9. ↑ History on the university website , accessed on October 2, 2019.
10. ↑ Timeline on the WSU website , viewed on October 11, 2019.
11. ↑ Timeline on the WSU website , accessed on October 11, 2019.
12. ↑ Data from collegetuitioncompare.com (English), accessed on October 1, 2019.
13. ^ Anna Burleson: Weber State sees highest enrollment ever for 3rd consecutive year . In: Standard Examiner. October 20, 2018 (English), accessed October 1, 2019.
14. ↑ WSU website , accessed on October 11, 2019.
15. ↑ Website of the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences , accessed on October 11, 2019.
16. ^ Website of the College of Science (English), accessed on October 11, 2019.
17. ↑ Arts-Humanities website , accessed on October 11, 2019.
18. ↑ Google map , viewed on October 1, 2019.
19. ↑ Website of the Dee Events Center (English), accessed on September 17, 2019.
20. ^ History of the Dee Events Center, accessed on September 17, 2019.
21. ↑ Website of the Ott Planetarium (English), accessed on September 14, 2019.
22. ↑ MC Andre: Observation du passage de mercure sur le soleil. Faite a Ogden (Utah), May 6, 1878. Lyon, Association Typographique, 1878/1880. (French)
23. ↑ Mercury transit on NASA's website , accessed on September 26, 2019.
24. ↑ Credit Union website , accessed October 11, 2019.
25. ↑ List of previous recipients of the honorary doctorate (pdf, English), accessed on October 8, 2019.
26. ^ Co-editor (English), accessed on October 7, 2019.
27. ^ Website of the journal , accessed on October 7, 2019.

Coordinates: 41 ° 11 ′ 34.8 "  N , 111 ° 56 ′ 37.5"  W.