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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]
March – Color the Campus, an LGBT awareness group at BYU, holds a Rainbow Day on March 4 to commemorate one year since the same-sex dating policy clarification. Rainbow Day is held about once per semester [ 242 ] to "[show love] and support for LGBTQ+ students and faculty at all CES schools", as stated on the group's Instagram page. [ 243 ]
March – Color the Campus, an LGBT awareness group at BYU, holds a Rainbow Day on March 4 to commemorate one year since the same-sex dating policy clarification. Rainbow Day is held about once per semester [ 254 ] to "[show love] and support for LGBTQ+ students and faculty at all CES schools", as stated on the group's Instagram page. [ 255 ]
Members of BYU's community have criticized the inclusion of the speech in the "UNIV 101" course, saying it underscores the idea that LGBTQ students and faculty do not belong at the university.
Since students are only allowed to live in BYU-approved housing, landlords in the area consider it important to meet the standard in order to gain residents. The housing standards mandate that bathrooms and bedrooms be off limits to those of the opposite sex.
April – After a controversy over BYU's policies around LGBT people, a conference for the US Society for Political Methodology was moved off of campus citing a "long-strained relations between the LGBTQ community and BYU" [353] and concerns over the university's ban on homosexual behavior which the Society repudiated along with "the ...
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The BYU Faculty Center is also located in the Student Center. The counseling center was started in 1946 under BYU President McDonald [2] and moved to the WSC upon the building's completion in 1964. When it was first built the Wilkinson Center had an area of 287,539 square feet. The bookstore was expanded in 1974 with an extension further west.