Reading Time: 2 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf KresLynn Knouse | Features Editor | @kreslynn To support UVU’s mission to raise below-average graduation rates, the U.S. Department of Education awarded the university a $2.2 million Title III grant. The Title III grant is part of a federal program that exists to improve the quality of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf Utah House of Representatives Speaker Becky Lockhart (R-Provo) and Minority Leader Jennifer Seelig (D-Salt Lake) discussed the newly created Women in the Economy Commission at a seminar at Utah Valley University on October 21. UVU’s Utah Women & Leadership Project, Center for the Study of Ethics, Woodbury School […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf [Updated*] The Good4Utah College Road Tour will stop at Utah Valley University on Thursday, October 23 as a part of its month-long tour of Utah universities and colleges to highlight higher education and profile the higher education institutions through Utah. ABC4 will broadcast the event live from […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Taran K. Chun became the newest member of the Utah Valley University Board of Trustees on October 9. Governor Gary Herbert appointed Chun as Fidel Montero’s replacement after Montero took the chief of staff position for UVU President Matthew S. Holland. He currently serves as principal of Mountain View High School and will continue his […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf United States House Congressional district 3 candidates Jason Chaffetz (R) and Brian Wonnacott (D) sparred over Common Core and global warming at the Utah Debate Commission-hosted debate at Utah Valley University on October 7. Chaffetz, the incumbent, is running on a platform of “fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Gabi Campbell | Photo Editor/Staff Writer |@angelikagabi Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf Neon Trees are remarkably well-named. Maybe someone with synesthesia can confirm whether their music looks neon, because it certainly sounds that way. On October 3, they returned to Provo (their band’s birthplace) to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Rooftop […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Supreme Court has decided to not hear the same-sex marriage cases from Utah and four other states, which will revert the states back to the district court rulings that legalized same-sex marriage. Within a few hours, Utah received a mandate from the 10th district court of appeals, which ruled the third amendment same-sex marriage […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf Illustration by Ashley Fairbourne Utah Valley University students paid $80 for UTA student transit passes this year, and rates will continue to rise in $10 increments over the next two years to $100 for the 2016-2017 school year. Student passes were $70 last year and from $50 for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute To support Utah Valley University’s mission to raise below-average graduation rates, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $2.2 million Title III grant. UVU’s graduation rate for the last two years – for freshmen that earn a degree within six years, excluding those that leave for military service, religious missions or other approved exceptions […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Campus Connection is being remodeled and in the meantime, the office has been moved down the hall to the Student Life and Wellness Building, in room 123. The remodel is expected to be done by the end of October, but could be completed in the next three weeks. The administration decided to upgrade the facility […]