(Provo, UT) — Brigham Young University approved plans to construct a new building for the College of Fine Arts and Communications. The new building will be built where the Harris Fine Arts Center is currently located on the Provo campus. When finished, the departments for Art, Design and Theater & […]
(Provo, UT) — A study conducted by Brigham Young University shows that half of Utah residents are watering their lawns too much. Researchers with the civil engineering department found many homeowners are using water to keep their grass green in lieu of fertilizing the lawns properly, or changing the soil […]
(Provo, UT) — Brigham Young University is apparently declining millions of dollars in COVID-19 funding from the federal government. The Department of Education announced yesterday that Utah colleges would be getting 506-million-dollars in funding allocated through the American Rescue Plan Act. The announcement also said BYU received over 88-million-dollars as […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ students are disciplined at Brigham Young University. The Utah college said in a news release Thursday that the Department of Education concluded the private religious school is exempt from parts of Title […]
(Provo, UT) – Brigham Young University is adding a new requirement for incoming employees who are practicing members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church-owned school will require new workers to also hold a current temple recommend, but the requirement is not retroactive to current […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ students are disciplined at Brigham Young University, a private religious school. The Salt Lake Tribune reports it comes after the school said it would still enforce a ban on same-sex dating even […]
(Provo, UT) — A BYU student is facing charges in a sextortion case involving a 16-year-old girl. Prosecutors say 20-year-old Benjamin Shields was charged Monday with aggravated sexual extortion of a child after he allegedly offered the teen money for nude pictures and then threatened to expose her if she […]
(Provo, UT) — Provo’s “Y” Mountain looked a little more colorful Thursday night. Brigham Young University students lit the Y in rainbow colors ahead of LGBTQ History month in October. Back in March, students lit up the mountain in rainbow colors to mark the anniversary of when BYU clarified that […]
(Provo, UT) — A Brigham Young University student seen on video washing out chalk art messages supporting LGBTQ students is no longer enrolled. Officials for BYU won’t say whether he dropped out or was expelled. In the video recorded last month, the man is seen pouring out a water bottle […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of students at Brigham Young University has left the school’s paper, The Daily Universe, and launched their own underground, independent publication not controlled by the private university. Students at the Daily Universe aren’t allowed to report anything that’s critical of the school or […]
