The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute's monthly Newsmaker Breakfast focused on the importance of higher education in Utah. The event began with an introduction by Natalie Gochnour, director...

  Last year, lawmakers in Texas proposed the now-infamous Senate Bill 1515, which aimed to require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. To the dismay of fundamentalists...

  Utah’s 2023 General Legislative Session brought a number of disappointments, with many bad bills passing and good bills getting buried. However, we saw one passed bill that will make a meaningful...

  Universities are considered “higher education” institutions. This means we hold them to higher expectations than middle or high schools. Group projects have become commonplace in many different...

  Recently, President Taylor Randall of University of Utah joined the Excelencia in Education Presidents for Latino Student Success Network. Excelencia in Education is designed to help Latinx...

  In a 2022 WalletHub study, Utah was ranked as the worst state for women’s equality, with Utah being the lowest overall in the education and income gap categories. Women earn 30.9% less than...

  March 12, 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of the University of Utah’s decision to move to remote learning. Examining the data from the past year makes it exceedingly clear that online learning...

  Last year, the United States saw waves of protests against racism and police brutality following the murder of George Floyd. Utah was no exception to the collective anger that overcame the nation....

  Take a moment and think about the people that used to sit near you in lectures. Look around at the people in your zoom classes. Think about your family, friends and the strangers you pass on...

  It’s a rough year to be a college student, to say the least. Since the coronavirus pandemic forced colleges and universities to shut down in March, many of us have lost jobs and missed out...