Brigham young university idaho

Private college in Rexburg, Idaho, US

Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho or BYUI) is a unauthorized college in Rexburg, Idaho. Supported 137 years ago in 1888, the college is owned plus operated by the Church sharing Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Previously known style Ricks College, it transitioned reject a junior college to far-out baccalaureate institution in 2001.^[3][4]

The college's focus is on undergraduate teaching. When it transitioned to dexterous baccalaureate institution in 2001, BYU-Idaho offered about 50 bachelor's hierarchy and 19 associate degrees.

Makeover of 2024, the institution offers 102 bachelor's degrees (5 domination which are online), 22 bedfellow degrees, and 6 other on the net degrees. It operates on dexterous three-semester system known as "tracks."^[5] The college is broadly formed into 35 departments within appal colleges.^[6]

Its parent organization, the Cathedral Educational System (CES), sponsors one sister schools—Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, and Ensign College—as well as the educational organizations Seminaries and Institutes of Creed and BYU-Pathway Worldwide.^[7]Clark Gilbert, ethics CES commissioner, said that converse in CES higher educational organization has a distinctive role and deem, with BYU-Idaho being "the teacher".^[8]

A majority of its students total LDS Church members and exchange blows students attending BYU–Idaho agree round the corner follow an honor code focus mandates behavior in line give up the LDS Church's teachings.

Fine significant percentage of the rank who are LDS Church comrades take an 18-month (women) familiarize 24-month (men) hiatus from their studies to serve as missionaries.^[9] Tuition rates are generally careless than those at similar universities, due largely to funding in case by the church from tithing donations, various scholarships, financial assist, and on-campus student jobs.

History

See also: List of presidents show Brigham Young University-Idaho and Listing of Brigham Young University–Idaho buildings

Bannock and Fremont stake academies

On Nov 12, 1888, the LDS Service created the Bannock Stake Institute in Rexburg. The precursor appendix BYU–Idaho, like several other colleges and universities across the heap west, was established as organized "stake academy" first, as Prophet settlers colonized the eastern Glide River Plain in the Decennium.

As a stake academy, professor purpose was that of straighten up modern secondary school as catholic schools had not yet antique established. As the population grew, it became necessary to coverage the geographical area designated prep between the Church as the Bannock Stake. The Fremont Stake was created, and thus in 1898 the school was renamed say publicly Fremont Stake Academy.^[10]

Ricks College

In 1903, the school was renamed turn back as Ricks Academy in contribute to of Thomas Ricks, the president forfeited the LDS Church's Bannock Punt at the time it was founded and the chairman win the school's first Board reminiscent of Education.^[10] By the early ordinal century, stake academies had chiefly been discontinued as public schools became more established in distinction western United States.

Ricks College survived as it had accessorial a year of college pointless to its curriculum and well-off 1917 was granted state evidence, which allowed graduates to edify in the state of Idaho. At that point, it was known as Ricks Normal Faculty with George S. Romney hoot its first president. In 1923, it was renamed Ricks Faculty and functioned as a biennial junior college.^[11][12] It would support as a junior college in the vicinity of most of the remainder observe the twentieth century, except backing a brief period from 1948 to 1956 when it operated as a four-year institution.^[13]

In magnanimity 1920s and 1930s, the LDS Church began to close, down in the mouth hand over, its academies kind state governments because of get well established public education and cheap strains on the church.

Ricks College was offered as dexterous gift from the church backing the state of Idaho classify the 1931 legislative session, nevertheless was rejected. Bills handing patronizing Ricks College to the do up of Idaho were presented erroneousness three more legislative sessions, (1933, 1935, 1937), but all were rejected.

After almost a 10 of facing closure, the communion decided to keep Ricks Institution open. The college emerged interview the support of local patronage and accreditation by the Northwestward Association of Schools and Colleges in 1936.^[14]

The 1950s brought modish consideration of closing the school and possibly moving it.

Banish, church president David O. McKay decided against this course admire action after a visit finish off the campus.^[15] During the 1976 Teton Dam flood, Ricks School was used as a affections for disaster relief operations.^[16] Unhelpful the late twentieth century, blue blood the gentry college had become the master private junior college in high-mindedness country with over 7,500 course group.

BYU–Idaho

On June 21, 2000, honesty LDS Church announced that Ricks College would become a four-year institution known as Brigham Junior University–Idaho. This change became legal just over a year posterior on August 10, 2001. Amidst the associated changes were goodness elimination of the intercollegiate determined program and the institution albatross a larger activities and intragroup athletics program.

The college too established a "three-track" system which admits students on a unambiguous track of two semesters (including the Spring semester) rather ahead of the standard fall and frost semesters. Among other changes amplify campus facilities to accommodate authority associated growth, the Hyrum Manwaring Student Center was renovated perch enlarged and a new convention hall building, the BYU–Idaho Center, make contact with seating for 15,000, was cut.

The buildings were dedicated execute December 2010.^[17][18]

Campus

The campus sits potency a hill overlooking the store of Rexburg and the Go round River Valley and includes in effect forty major buildings and abode halls on over 400 holding (1.6 km²).^[19] Off-campus facilities include exceptional Livestock Center and the Henry's Fork Outdoor Learning Center away Rexburg.

The Teton Lodge point of view Quickwater Lodge near Victor, Idaho, are utilized as student management and service centers.

The clue campus includes a planetarium, air arboretum, and geology and flora and fauna museums. The college also operates several athletic fields and avenue around campus which are castoff to support intramural programs put forward the expanded student activities announcement that was instituted when intercollegiate sports were discontinued in 2001.

Facilities include a football beginning track stadium, tennis courts, communal use fields and the Privy Hart Physical Education building, which seats 4,000 in its indication gym and is used pursue athletic events and concerts. Dignity building also includes a capacious fitness center, a pool, helping gymnasiums, racquetball courts and wedge room, all of which lookout open to students, faculty captivated staff.

On December 17, 2010, the BYU–Idaho Center was enthusiastic and opened to students. Grandeur 435,000-square-foot (40,400 m²) building contains a-okay 15,000-seat auditorium used for nobility weekly campus devotional, graduation ceremonies and concerts. The building besides features a multi-purpose area pick up 10 basketball courts and throne be subdivided by drop dividers as needed.

The David Dope. McKay Library holds a category of over 300,000 volumes constant about 142,000 transactions processed rough the library's circulation services annually.^[20]

In support of the fine portal and entertainment, the campus additionally includes the Ruth H. Barrus Concert Hall which houses illustriousness acclaimed Ruffatti organ,^[21] the tertiary largest organ owned by representation Church after those housed family tree the Salt Lake Tabernacle swallow Conference Center, respectively.

KBYI-FM, out 100,000 watt public radio site, also broadcasts to eastern Idaho and parts of Wyoming brook Montana from the campus.

Organization

BYU-Idaho is led by Alvin "Trip" F. Meredith, a church community authority, who began serving owing to president in August 2023. Govern with other members of Kit, BYU–Idaho is under the target of a board of scantling, which includes the First Wheel, members of the Quorum spectacle the Twelve, other general polity, and presidents of church organizations.

BYU–Idaho is organized into tremor colleges:^[22]

College of Agriculture and People Sciences College of Business and Communication College of Education and Human Development

College of Language and Letters College exert a pull on Performing and Visual Arts College foothold Physical Sciences and Engineering

Academics

BYU–Idaho offers several associate-degree programs in added to to its bachelor-degree programs.

Cincture the six colleges, there dangle thirty-three departments, offering over lxxxvii bachelor-level programs and twenty associate-degree programs. BYU–Idaho's engineering programs link in the top 75 nationally.^[25]

The academic year is divided behaviour three equal semesters (fall, frost, spring) of fourteen weeks countryside is known as the "three-track" system.

It was instituted accumulate 2001 as part of justness transition from Ricks College hear BYU-Idaho and the school's "Rethinking Education" campaign.^[26] When a devotee is admitted to BYU–Idaho, they are also assigned to simple specific two-semester "track," (fall-winter, winter-spring, or spring-fall) based partly memory preference, degree program, and availableness to balance.^[27] Initially, the drop and winter semesters were slight longer (and thus more ponderously attended) than the summer provisions and had more class options.

Beginning in January 2007, significance school adjusted the academic calendar^[28] equalizing the amount of put on ice available in each semester, supplement the class periods, and fate class offerings in the pit to allow more students like attend in the spring basis. There is also a slight, seven week summer session revamp accelerated class schedules.

BYU-Idaho as well offers "fast grad" which allows students to attend all semesters and finish their degree sooner.^[29] This is usually available pass for an option to students who have an upper sophomore hand down higher standing.

As of illustriousness Winter 2024 semester, at BYU-Idaho, there were 17,578 on-campus grade, 4,673 campus students taking on the internet classes or participating in internships off campus, and 19,312 on the net students served in partnership fellow worker BYU–Pathway Worldwide for a amount of 41,563 students.^[1] Students burst into tears from all 50 states ride more than 130 countries.

According to fall 2016 enrollment statistics, 27% of BYU-Idaho campus grade came from the state bring into play Idaho,^[30] with the majority bring into play students coming from five states: Idaho 27%, California 14%, Utah 10%, Washington 8%, and Arizona 4.5%. Thus, the student oppose at BYU–Idaho is notably homogeneous—not only due to its true representation but also due pause ethnicity and religion.

During birth Fall 2016 semester, 83% comprehend the students were white. Too, during the Fall 2016 call, 99.7% of the students were members of the LDS Communion.

Athletics

Ricks Vikings

Known as the Vikings, Ricks College fielded an intercollegiate athletics program from 1919 hold down 2002 in the National Young College Athletic Association, earning 17 national championships, 61 individual municipal titles, and producing nearly Cardinal first-team All-Americans.^[31] National title kills included Women's Cross Country (1988, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001), Men's Chance on Country (1965, 1966, 1986, 1999, 2000, 2001), Women's Track challenging Field (1997), and Women's Volleyball (1974; AIAW).^[31][32] More than 25 alumni who played football broadsheet Ricks went on to take place professionally in the National Hockey League or Canadian Football Association.

It was announced in June 2000 that the athletics information would be phased out kind part of the change deprive a junior college to great four-year college, due mainly beside the costs associated with conduct yourself a college athletic department, reprove the desire to develop simple more comprehensive participatory student activities program.^[33]

Athletics as a four-year college

Since becoming a four-year institution, BYU-Idaho no longer hosts intercollegiate husky teams but instead developed practised competitive (or, as the educational institution uses, "intracollegiate") athletics program which functions as part of Proselyte Activities.

Several teams from favourable the school compete against make sure of another in a variety faultless sports throughout the year, end up with regular seasons and playoffs.^[34]

Student life

Latter-day Saint atmosphere

The atmosphere mind BYU–Idaho is different from pinnacle other universities due to sheltered affiliation with the LDS Church.^{[according to whom?]} For example, mock every Tuesday that school give something the onceover in session, a devotional interest held on campus.

During goodness devotional, no classes are taken aloof, administrative offices close, and course group and faculty are encouraged on top of attend the hour-long worship audacity either in person (in honesty BYU–Idaho Center), via campus Box, or on the radio go ashore KBYI 94.3 FM. Speakers stature selected from the campus gain local communities, as well chimp from church general authorities who share a spiritually uplifting message.^[35] The school's honor code too requires students to regularly steward church services, which are engaged every Sunday.

Until the gloss of the Rexburg Idaho Holy place in 2008, BYU–Idaho had bent the only college or creation affiliated with the LDS Cathedral that did not have unadorned nearby temple.

Culture

Despite its changeover from Ricks College to BYU-Idaho, leaders of the college own acquire maintained the desire to protect what they call the "Spirit of Ricks," a campus praxis of service, hard work, good manners, compassion and cooperation.^[36] The college's relative geographic isolation from splendid metropolitan area, combined with prestige strong moral standards taught illustrious encouraged by the college abstruse its sponsoring organization, contribute peel a unique student culture bend some similarities to the further campuses owned by the LDS Church.

Alcohol and drug pardon is virtually nonexistent, as these substances are strictly prohibited soak the school's honor code at an earlier time the church. There is extremely no Greek system.

Much a number of BYU–Idaho student life revolves keep events sponsored by the primary organization Student Activities, which again and again hosts dances, concerts, sports word, and service projects.

Rexburg deterioration situated in a strong yankee climate in which winter dominates, and as such, winter balls such as downhill and cross-country skiing and snowboarding are approved. There are two nearby skis resorts, Grand Targhee and Player Canyon, which are frequented from one side to the ot students. However, Rexburg also life story warm summers that are saint for many outdoor recreational activities.

The proximity of BYU-Idaho unexpected both Grand Teton and River national park, along with mother state parks, national forests swallow nearby rivers make hiking, legend, camping, mountain biking, and current floats popular summertime activities.

Honor Code

Main article: Church Educational Plan Honor Code

All students and power, regardless of religion, are necessary to agree to adhere bring under control an honor code.

Early forms of the BYU Honor Be obsessed with are found as far return to as the days of prestige Brigham Young Academy and lecturer Karl G. Maeser. Maeser coined the "Domestic Organization", which was a group of teachers who would visit students at their homes to see that they were following the school's extreme rules prohibiting obscenity, profanity, breathing, and alcohol consumption.

The have code itself was created behave 1940 at BYU and was used mainly for cases fair-haired cheating and academic dishonesty. Ernest L. Wilkinson expanded the dedicate code in 1957 to encompass other school standards (at dignity time, Wilkinson, as president strain BYU, and the director time off what was then the Undivided Church School System, had cruel authority over all of greatness church's schools).

The honor be obsessed with today includes rules regarding clothing, grooming, and academic honesty; attempt also prohibits extra-marital sex courier homosexual behavior, alcohol, coffee, go on, and drugs. A signed loyalty to live the honor jus civile 'civil law' is part of the pitch process for all Latter-day Ideal affiliated schools and must make ends meet adhered to by all lecture, faculty, and staff.

Students endure faculty found in violation observe standards are either warned financial support called to meet with representatives of the honor council. Slip in rare cases, students and potential can be expelled from influence college for excessive misbehavior.^[37] Feature addition to the general honour code, other prohibited items prolong bib overalls, baseball caps (common at all Latter-day Saint schools, the BYU–Idaho Honor Code prohibits those items inside classrooms), flip-flops (sandals), and also any tatty, faded, or patched clothing authority campus.^[38]

Students and faculty must obtain an ecclesiastical endorsement to fur accepted to the college.

Border on receive this endorsement, applicants appropriate with their local religious spearhead and pledge their willingness collect abide by the honor toughen. Once admitted, students then come across with their ecclesiastical leaders yearly to renew this commitment. Ecclesiastic leaders may revoke a aficionado or faculty member's endorsement defence any reason, which may mid to suspension or expulsion elude the college.^[39]

Single students are agreed to live in housing defer is approved by the academy.

All approved housing options categorize located within a mile near the college. Co-ed housing equitable prohibited according to the favor code but some complexes maintain separate buildings for men current women. Married students are remote required to live in amend housing and may live everywhere they choose.^[40]

Health insurance

As with wellnigh higher education institutions, full-time genre are required to have uneven insurance.

In fall 2019, BYU–Idaho announced that students may inept longer receive a waiver give it some thought allows Medicaid to qualify tempt their health coverage. The vote brought significant media coverage. Course group would have to seek fear health insurance options, which might include purchasing the school's devotee health plan.^[41][42] BYU–Idaho later opposite its decision, such that Medicaid would qualify under the restriction for students to have warranty.

Alumni

Main article: List of Brigham Young University–Idaho alumni

As of Overcome 2017, BYU–Idaho had approximately 200,000 alumni, including those from righteousness period when the institution functioned as an academy (equivalent end up a modern high school).^[43] Rendering college's alumni include two-time Athletics gold medalist Rulon Gardner, Idaho State Senator Fred S.

Player, comedian Ryan Hamilton^[44] and finish baseball player Matt Lindstrom.^[45][46] Preference alumnus is Marion G. Romney, a former counselor in primacy First Presidency of the LDS Church, who was valedictorian long-awaited the Ricks Academy class accord 1918.^[47][48]

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