Whether you teach in a classroom, supervise student-employees, or work alongside students, every employee at BYU-Idaho is a mentor. To more effectively mentor students to aid them in becoming disciples of Jesus Christ, the Student Success Council has created a website for BYU-Idaho employees: www.byui.edu/mentoring. If you aren’t quite sure how to help a student, this new website contains great information and links to resources that will help you make an impact in students’ lives.
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To successfully navigate students through their college experience and secure employment upon graduation, the Department of Design and Construction Management has learned through recent efforts that there are more ways than one to provide advising for students.
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Tropical plants can’t survive in sub-50-degree weather. However, they are thriving in the Rexburg winter inside of the Benson greenhouses.
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BYU-Idaho Radio student reporters are going more in-depth with the local stories they cover. BYU-Idaho Radio recently launched a new radio show on KBYI 94.3 FM called, “Tell Me About It.” The new show is produced and co-hosted by Radio News and Programming Coordinator Brandon Isle, and BYU-Idaho Radio student employees. The program is made up of student-written stories and packages, interviews, and contributing faculty.
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In order to help students develop more skills, the Department of Human Performance and Recreation will be implementing curriculum changes starting April 2019. The changes include dividing the current recreation management major into two majors—recreation management and therapeutic management. The recreation management major will then be built by stacking five 15-credit certificates.
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BYU-Idaho is now extending the opportunity for all its courses to be available as “dual enrollment courses” for high school students who are seeking a head start into their college career.
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In his address titled, “A Steady, Upward Course,” President Henry B. Eyring said, “I hope I live long enough to someday meet some employer who employed one of you and says, ‘Where did that come from?’… And I’ll smile and say, ‘Well, come with me to Rexburg... And I may not be able to show it to you, and I may not be able to prove it to you, but you’ll feel it.’”
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BYU-Idaho employs more than twice as many students for part-time positions than full-time employees. These student employees are an essential tool to accomplishing the mission of BYU-Idaho to develop students into disciple leaders of Jesus Christ. Over the past year, BYU-Idaho Human Resources has made some recent revisions to the Student Leadership Model (SLM) to help student employees and full-time managers accomplish their goals.
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Finalizations are now taking place (starting October 2018) to complete the legal separation of BYU-Pathway Worldwide from BYU-Idaho. This separation is the result of an ongoing effort to accommodate the increasing growth in online enrollments and address the distinctive needs of online students.
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Every semester, hundreds of messages are shared on campus with the goal to reach the same audience—BYU-Idaho students. With so many messages competing for our students’ attention, President’s Executive Group (PEG) decided last spring that something needed to be done to prioritize university communications.
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