Reading Time: 2 minutes Touchstones, UVU’s student-run literary journal, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2010 volume. The journal, which is published at the end of both fall and winter semesters, features the fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, drama and art of UVU students. While each issue is supervised by a creative writing faculty member, the journal is designed, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A variety of works from the Utah Watercolor Society are now on display in the UVU library. This exhibition includes a selection from the Annual Juried Exhibition of the Watercolor Society. Each piece on display is characteristic of the artist, which makes for diverse subject matter —some works are of flowers and wildlife, some of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes One doesn’t have to agree with Arizona’s recent controversial immigration bill to recognize that with the tightening of border security in Texas and California, Arizona has become a much more common avenue of illegal entry into the country. If nothing else, the bill has succeeded in pushing immigration reform debate more to the front of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If UTA carries through with their decision to raise the price of their student pass, students without a car or who prefer to save the cost of gas may need to find another means of transportation. The Utah Transit Authority recently released a statement about reviewing the Ed Pass program, a discounted pass available to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week was interim president and vice president of academic affairs, Elizabeth Hitch’s final one before moving to her new post as associate commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education. “The opportunity to work at the state level of key higher education issues was one I just could not pass up,” Hitch said. Hitch’s […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the first time, students will be eligible to receive financial aid awards while attending one or both summer blocks. This is not the only summer it will be available either. “We’ve known for a couple years it was coming, we just didn’t know when,” said Angela Perkins, assistant director of financial aid counseling. “Most […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute According to the American Association of University Professors, the current average salary for a college professor in the Mountain West region ranges from $53,259 to $106,521 a year. According to StateUniversity.com, the average full-time faculty salary at UVU is $55,576. During these strenuous economic times, education has taken a big hit. Massive budget cuts are […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes John Richards, an associate professor of Entrepreneurship at BYU spoke to a group of business-minded people at the Alumni House on June 10 as part of the Woodbury School of Business’s Entrepreneurial Breakfast Series. Tapping into engaged learning with sponsors Bank of American Fork and the CPA firm Hawkins, Cloward & Simister, the Woodbury School […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A recent Supreme Court decision will affect arrests and their implications throughout the United States. The ruling specifies that suspects must now vocally invoke the right to remain silent. It had been previously held that remaining silent indicated that the right or privilege was being used. The ruling, which passed with a 5-4 vote, was […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As part of a 26 year history of sustainability efforts, UVU has created a Sustainability Committee and has launched a Go Green campaign to raise environmental awareness across campus. This aim has been behind the design and construction of the library and will likely continue with the addition of the new science building. There have […]