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EFY participants gather to listen to speakers in June 2017 on the BYU campus. The traditional overnight-stay EFY programs are normally held on college campuses. BYU is the largest destination, hosting about 13,000 participants each summer. [10] In some limited situations EFY has been held in a hotel rather than on a university campus.
Each year various artist from LDS Music are featured on an annual album called Especially for Youth (EFY), that is produced for a summer youth camp sponsored by Brigham Young University but are held at many universities across the United States. [3] Several producers bid for the album on a 2-year cycle.
Wilcox has often been a speaker at such Church Educational System programs as Especially for Youth, BYU Education Week, and the BYU Women's Conference. [7] His speech given at BYU, His Grace is Sufficient, [8] is "the most viewed speech of all time among BYU speeches, [9] and has more than 400,000 views on YouTube" according to Deseret News. [10]
BYU's social and cultural atmosphere is unique. The high rate of enrollment at the university by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints results in an amplification of LDS cultural norms; BYU was ranked by The Princeton Review in 2008 as 14th in the nation for having the happiest students and highest quality of life. [11]
In 1997, the group became a formal part of Brigham Young University (BYU), which is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 2006, the group became a formal part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship , formerly known as the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient ...
The LDS Church first published "For the Strength of Youth" in 1965. [1] Subsequent editions were published in 1966, two in 1968, 1969, 1972, [2] 1990, 2001, 2011, and most recently in 2022 (10th edition).
[4] [5] [6] Currently BYU does not allow students who enrolled as Mormons to change their religious affiliation, [7] [8] [9] and FreeBYU is advocating for university policy to apply the same standards for formerly LDS students as it does for non-LDS students, including charging a higher tuition rate. [10]
Academic freedom at Brigham Young University (BYU) has been the subject of several controversies, mostly focusing on its religious nature. In 1992, BYU issued a statement limiting academic freedom in certain areas, including language that attacked the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and language that violates the university's honor code.