Just before the pandemic, a female graduate student began working in a University of Utah lab to complete her doctorate degree. One year later, she feared she would be deported. Shortly into...

  On May 18, 2023, the Utah System of Higher Education amended its policy on graduate degree tuition benefits for employees of higher education institutions in the state of Utah. This left the...

  “We set out to visually express the character and dignity of the U in an atmosphere which is cheerful, peaceful and ecologically sound,” said Bruce Jensen, former director of campus planning...

  According to the Postsecondary National Policy Institute, only 15.4% of American Indian or Alaska Native residents aged 25 or over had earned a bachelor’s degree in 2021, compared to the national...

  Across the University of Utah’s campus, screens flash with a message to report racist and biased incidents, but what happens to the reports after they're filed? They are seen by the Racist...

  When Ashley Olsen, third-year student in biology and psychology at the University of Utah, slipped and dislocated her knee walking on the ramp down to the stadium parking lot, she was expecting...

  Kendra Muller, a civil rights attorney who works at Disability Rights California, the nation’s largest non-profit disability rights firm, graduated from Brigham Young University in 2019 in...

  Disabled students at the University of Utah experience exclusion in many ways on campus, from automatic doors being out of working order for extended periods to long, roundabout detours around...

  Universities were built on the idea of exclusion, according to Angela Smith, director of Disability Studies at the University of Utah.  “Universities are inherently ableist," Smith said....

  Before the University of Utah had a Center for Disability & Access, it had a Center for Handicapped Students that was lacking in resources. In 1977, some changes were made. An article...