Graduation updates 2022

April 21, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Editor’s Note: This article is an update on graduation, correcting some of the details shared in a previous article.          The Review congratulates all 2022 graduates on their accomplishments. This year, convocation ceremonies will be held on May 6, in a drive-thru format. Similar to the way ceremonies have been conducted since COVID-19 regulations were […]

UVU 2022 convocation in drive-thru format

April 19, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Editor Note: An updated article was published with more details on the graduation events. Utah Valley University’s 2022 convocation ceremonies will be held on May 6 in a drive-thru format, which is similar to the way the ceremonies have been conducted since COVID-19 regulations were set into place in 2020. The drive-thru graduation ceremony in […]

University officials reveal details of New First-Year Center

January 24, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes As a measure to improve the current 37 percent, eight-year graduation rate amongst students, university officials announced the creation of the UVU First-Year Center (FYC) via a mass email sent to all faculty and staff on Friday Jan. 18. The new student success initiative will be available to all UVU students with 30 credits or […]

Women’s Success Center focused on women graduating

August 27, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo courtesy of Women’s Success Center marketing staff One in every four women who start at UVU graduate, said Katherine Johnson, assistant director of women’s services. The Women’s Success Center is a student-run organization that began in 2011 with the purpose to give women the resources needed to complete their education. “There was an initiative […]

Popular author returns for 71st commencement

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Erin Gruwell will once again grace the UCCU Center to speak at UVU’s 71st Commencement Ceremony on April 26 at 6:30 p.m. Graduates and members of the community will recognize Gruwell as the author of “The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them,” […]

Guest writer Vegor Pedersen on quality education

January 15, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why 12 credits is just fine   In my capacity as an academic advisor I interact with about 50 students a week on average. Of those 50 about 48 have the exact same question every time they come see me. “How fast can I get the hell out of here?”   I sometimes feel like […]