Announcements

We are pleased to announce that Brigham Young University-Idaho will broadcast an online commencement service to recognize our Spring Semester 2021 graduates. Steven J. Lund, Young Men General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will address the 2,711 graduates in an online commencement ceremony on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. The event will be available for viewing at 6:00 p.m. MDT at www.byui.edu/live/video.

Brigham Young University-Idaho will hold its annual Education Week conference exclusively online this year. Due to continued COVID-19 health and safety precaution, a face-to-face conference will not take place on the BYU-Idaho campus. In place of the traditional three-day conference, a free one-day virtual conference will be held on Friday, July 30.

In August 2020, BYU-Idaho launched a new university calendar with its own social platform: I-Belong. This new platform, offered in both mobile and desktop formats, offers students and employees multiple options to get involved with campus organizations and activities at BYU-Idaho.

In pursuit of continuous improvement and following “a steady, upward course,” BYU-Idaho is implementing plans to respond to the recommendations received by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), who evaluated the university this past April, and is reviewing their commendations.

BYU-Idaho plans to fully open Fall Semester 2021 for in-person instruction. As always, the university’s top priority is the health and safety of students and the entire campus community. We will continue to follow recommended health and safety protocols as advised by local public health officials. Campus-wide sanitation, limited physical distancing, and mask requirements will remain in place to start the semester. These requirements may be modified as the semester progresses.

Student Activities & Involvement Center

As BYU-Idaho aims to develop students into effective communicators, the university is always working to improve its own communication channels. Walking by the new Career Center in the Manwaring Center, students and employees can easily spot the university’s newest digital signage—two video walls, each composed of nine 55-inch TV screens.?

Official Spring 2021 Semester enrollment totals at Brigham Young University-Idaho show growth among both campus and online students who are continuing to pursue their academic goals despite a world-wide pandemic.

BYU-Idaho is always looking for ways to improve facilities for the learning and growth of its students. It is for this reason that the Mail Services, Surplus Sales, and Stores and Receiving are moving out of the Auxiliary Services Building to a new location west of campus.

A project nearly two years in the making, the Visual Arts Studio opened its classroom doors for students at the start of the Spring 2021 Semester. The studio, along with an additional parking lot, stand where the Kirkham once stood on the north end of campus.

Since it was built in 1969, generations of students have enjoyed the facilities the Hart Building has to offer. As the home to many Center Stage events, the fitness center, Wellness Center, campus pool, and racquetball courts, the Hart Building is truly a social center on BYU-Idaho’s campus.??

Learn more from BYU-Idaho President Henry J. Eyring and Sister Kelly Eyring as they discuss their devotional messages this semester.

After more than?a?year-long remodel in the Manwaring Center, the BYU-Idaho Career Center has opened its doors?in?a new centralized location. With?more than?10,000?square feet,?the new space has been thoroughly designed to best meet the needs of?students and?facilitate?one of the most?important?outcomes?to the university:?obtaining meaningful career employment.??? ?

We are pleased to announce that Brigham Young University-Idaho will broadcast an online commencement service to recognize our Winter Semester 2021 graduates. Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will address the 2,517 graduates in an online commencement ceremony on Thursday, April 8, 2021. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. MDT and will be available for viewing at www.byui.edu/live/video.

Like every other department and office on campus at BYU-Idaho, the University Store is focused on helping students. Thanks to the coordination between BYU-Idaho faculty and administrators, BYU-Idaho has some of the best textbook adoption rates in the country. Because faculty submit their class textbook requests to the University Store early, it allows the store to order before other universities, locking in lower prices. This in turn allows the store to offer the most affordable book prices for students.

On March 12, 2020, BYU-Idaho issued an Official Notice canceling all face-to-face classes, with classes to be resumed remotely a week later because of COVID-19. Since then, and amidst a pandemic, the university has continued to adapt to current circumstances to carry out its mission of building disciples of Jesus Christ.

Just as we individually strive to improve ourselves over time, the BYU-Idaho aims to better accomplish its mission “to develop disciples of Jesus Christ who are leaders in their homes, the Church, and their communities.” April 2021 will mark the third time the university has completed an accreditation cycle since it was announced as a four-year institution in 2000. BYU-Idaho is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). The process is designed to help BYU-Idaho fulfill its mission.

BYU-Idaho’s Strategic Enrollment Management team, which includes statisticians and data strategists in the office of Institutional Planning, recently met with President’s Council to discuss how to better accomplish the purposes of “Core Theme 3: Reach—Serve as many students as possible within resource constraints.” This group also addressed one of the university’s correlated strategic priorities to “manage enrollments while considering Church-demographic share and student behaviors, strengthen year-round school, and develop a concurrent enrollment program.”

BYU-Idaho is fulfilling its mission of developing disciples of Christ by using a strategic plan to train faculty to become strong disciple leaders. As teachers continue developing themselves as devoted followers of Christ, experiences in the classroom will help BYU-Idaho students follow those examples as they become disciple leaders themselves.

University Holds First Virtual All Employee Conference

Over the past couple of years, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have seen the Book of Mormon come to life in new, live action videos based on the Book of Mormon. After completing the first three of five seasons, Church film producer Aaron Merrell spoke to students and employees at the Winter 2021 University Forum about the making of these videos (Watch recording here).

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Keeping with tradition, President Eyring kicked off the Winter 2021 Semester with a virtual devotional address to students and employees on Tuesday, January 10. In the address he praised the campus community for their diligence in following safety guidelines during the fall semester.

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