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This list of Brigham Young University-Idaho alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Brigham Young University–Idaho (also known as BYU–Idaho or BYU–I), a four-year private college owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Rexburg, Idaho, United States.
17th president of BYU-Idaho; director of the BYU MBA program [22] John R. Grout: 1984 B.S. Dean of the Berry College Campbell School of Business [23] Bruce C. Hafen: 1964 B.A. 11th president of BYU-Idaho; 3rd dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School [24] Franklin S. Harris: 5th president of BYU [25] Jeffrey R. Holland: 1965 1966 B.A. M.A: 9th ...
BYU–Idaho's engineering programs rank in the top 75 nationally. [25] The academic year is divided into three equal semesters (fall, winter, spring) of fourteen weeks and is known as the "three-track" system. It was instituted in 2001 as part of the transition from Ricks College to BYU-Idaho and the school's "Rethinking Education" campaign. [26]
BYU's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the BYU Cougars. All sports teams compete in the Big 12 Conference except for men's volleyball which is a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. BYU's sports teams have won a total of 12 NCAA championships and 26 non-NCAA championships.
Coach Brent Venables and the OU football team hit the road for the final time in the regular season as a Big 12 squad on Saturday when the Sooners face BYU.
Due to the many factors such as Latter-day Saint beliefs and university encouragement, courtship and marriage are very important aspects of BYU's social scene. Those same religious beliefs have also resulted in an unwelcome atmosphere for students who are not heterosexual and policies that explicitly ban homosexual relationships .
As part of a BYU ban on websites containing sexual content, the popular website YouTube was blocked on all BYU networks. In 2007 Fox News highlighted BYU's blocking of pornographic and other sites, including YouTube, from campus Internet connections, [81] pursuant to the code's prohibition of the viewing of pornographic material. BYU lifted the ...
BYU TV (stylized as BYUtv) is a television channel and free family-friendly streaming service, founded in 2000, which is owned and operated as a part of Brigham Young University (BYU). [1] The channel, available on most smart TVs or through cable and satellite distributors in the United States , produces a number of original series and ...