Courtney Tanner

In a dramatic step to follow a state mandate to cut the higher education budget, Weber State University is overhauling its College of Education — which trains a significant portion of the state’s K-12 teachers.

The University of Utah’s business school is among 45 institutions now under federal investigation, accused of factoring race into graduate admission decisions. It's part of a Trump administration push against DEI initiatives.

A major bill that directs how the state’s public colleges and universities can try to earn back $60 million in funding that lawmakers cut from their budgets passed through the Senate. Here’s how it affects schools, programs, jobs and more.

A major bill that directs how the state’s public colleges and universities can try to earn back $60 million in funding that lawmakers cut from their budgets passed through the Senate. Here’s how it affects schools, programs, jobs and more.

A Utah lawmaker is pushing to overhaul required general education coursework for college students, shifting the focus back, he says, to great books “predominantly from Western civilization” and about “the rise of Christianity.”

After more than a year of searching, Utah Tech University finally has a new president. Shane B. Smeed, currently the president of a small liberal arts college in Missouri, was named Wednesday to take the helm at the St. George school.

The University of Utah has more than 80 buildings on its main campus. Spread over 1,000 acres, that includes spots for engineering or chemistry. But a whopping 45% of its assignable square footage is devoted to offices, not classrooms, a study found.

A Utah lawmaker said he wants to force members of university president search committees to "keep their mouths shut" about who applies for open positions as he discussed a new bill that would already hide the names of applicants named as finalists.

Utah faculty members lined up Wednesday at the Capitol to oppose a bill they fear could threaten the liberal arts. One pointed to Albert Einstein’s love of the violin as an example that science can benefit from art and music.

No internal candidates at Utah Tech University are among the pool of finalists announced this week to be the school’s next president. But the process for selecting a university leader could become more secretive with a new bill from state lawmakers.