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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]
LGBTQ students and advocates at BYU in Utah slammed the school for requiring all freshmen read a controversial 2021 speech that they say incited violence and hatred against the queer community.
BYU continues to ban LGBTQ student groups from meeting on campus as of 2022. [78] During an off-campus September 2022 BYU LGBTQ student "Back to School Pride Night", 100 protesters (many also BYU students) gathered and yelled slurs at the 300 LGBTQ BYU students and friends in attendance. [78] [74] [79]
The Ernest L. Wilkinson Student Center (WSC) serves as the main center on Brigham Young University (BYU) Campus. It was originally called the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center but was renamed to its current name at its re-dedication by Gordon B. Hinckley in 1999 after the building had been extensively renovated. It is known by students as "The Wilk".
More than 150 congregations meet on BYU campus each Sunday, where "BYU's campus becomes one of the busiest and largest centers of worship in the world" with about 24,000 persons attending church services on campus. [145] Some 97 percent of male BYU graduates and 32 percent of female graduates have served as Latter-day Saint missionaries. [146]
Guns are permitted in off-campus housing only if the gun owner receives written permission from both the landlord and all residents in the apartment. [76] In 2003, BYU announced that beginning in 2007, housing would only be approved if it was within 2 miles (3.2 km) of campus.
BYU football players were met by 75 picketers demonstrating against racism at BYU when they played Arizona a week after the report. [26] In April 1992 during Take Back the Night, an on-campus women's rights group marched in protest at the university's lack of a Women's Resource Center. They feared that by not having such a center BYU was not ...
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