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New Japanese Garden Gives Students Learning Experience

The Thomas E. Ricks Gardens are always at their prime during the summer months. Students work hard to create and maintain the botanical gardens on campus by adding to the beautiful landscapes each year. This year, students completed a new Japanese Garden located in the southeast corner.

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BYU-Idaho Updates Technology Use and Security Policy

This summer, BYU-Idaho updated its technology use and security policy for all university employees. With the safety of students and employees in mind, the IT Department revised the existing policy to align more closely with that of other Church Educational System institutions.

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Students Take Advantage of Summer Term Offerings

By Kamille Gee, August 30, 2021 05:20 AM

A rainy, summer afternoon finds Ellie Freeman studying on campus in the Crossroads. Except for a few other students scattered around, the social hub on campus is empty. The Crossroads can serve as a great place to study during the quiet seven-week break.

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Students Take Advantage of Summer Term Offerings

A rainy, summer afternoon finds Ellie Freeman studying on campus in the Crossroads. Except for a few other students scattered around, the social hub on campus is empty. The Crossroads can serve as a great place to study during the quiet seven-week break.

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BYU-Idaho Education Week Review

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BYU-Idaho Focuses on Efforts to Strengthen Retention and Perpetuate Student Success

Student Success and Retention Report

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Mentoring Dashboard Allows Every Employee to Mentor

From the moment a student decides to attend BYU-Idaho, they are assigned mentors and given support tools to help them succeed and persist to graduation. BYU-Idaho is a special place where both faculty in the classroom and employees in the student workplace mentor students. Every employee is a mentor.

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Student Health Center Aids in Fight Against COVID

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, BYU-Idaho has sought to meet state and local health district guidance to keep students and employees healthy. In many cases, the university has gone above and beyond what was required to keep everyone safe. With COVID-19 vaccines now available in the community to everyone 12 and older, BYU-Idaho personnel have worked hard to make the vaccine available and easily accessible to as many of the campus community as possible.

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New Program for Freshmen Launches This Fall

With more than 95 majors to choose from, many BYU-Idaho students struggle figuring out what they want to study their freshman year. To help undecided students select a major more effectively, the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies is launching a pilot program this fall called Freshman Focus Areas.

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Steven J. Lund to speak in online commencement ceremony

By Logan Lowery, July 07, 2021 04:18 AM

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.

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BYU-Idaho Education Week to Be Held Online

By University Relations, June 24, 2021 03:37 AM

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.

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I-Belong Connects Students and Employees to Campus

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.

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University Continues Improvement Efforts Following Accreditation Visit

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.

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BYU-Idaho to be Fully Open Fall Semester 2021??

By University Relations, June 08, 2021 03:20 AM

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.

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Summer 2021 Campus Construction Update

Student Activities & Involvement Center

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Expansion of Digital Signage Network Offers Improved Communication

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.?

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BYU-Idaho enrollment continues steady, upward growth

By Brett Crandall, May 14, 2021 04:21 AM

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.

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Former Auxiliary Services Building to House New Academic Space

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.

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New Visual Arts Studio Designed to Maximize Art Students’ Potential

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.

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Renovations to Hart Building Improve Facilities for Future Use

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.??

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BYU-Idaho Radio Interview With the Eyrings

By BYU-Idaho Radio, April 20, 2021 03:38 AM

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

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Career Center Relocated to Provide Better Accessibility for Students

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.??? ?

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Elder Gary E. Stevenson to speak in online commencement ceremony

By Kassandra Mackley, March 26, 2021 01:34 AM

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.

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University Store Recognized for Convenient and Affordable Services

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.