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Utah Tech University (UT), formerly Dixie State University (DSU), is a polytechnic 4-year public university in St. George, Utah. [1] The university offers doctoral degrees, master's degrees, bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, and certifications. [5] As of fall 2022, there are 12,556 students enrolled at UT. [6]
Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, Tennessee, U.S. officially known as "Dixie University" from 1909 to 1915, but popularly called "Dixie College." Utah Tech University the new name (July 2022) of "Dixie State University" (2013-2022), St. George, Utah, U.S.
Dixie Tech was established on September 1, 2001, by the Utah State Legislature.It relocated to its current campus on St. George's Tech Ridge in 2018. [1] Before that year, it was called Dixie Applied Technology College or DXATC, but that was changed when all institutions of the now defunct Utah System of Technical Colleges took on "Technical College" in their names. [2]
After a two-year battle, Dixie State University is now likely to become Utah Tech after both houses of the Utah Legislature approve the change.
In its final graduation ceremony before changing its name to Utah Tech, Dixie State University celebrated its 111th commencement on Friday.
After Dixie State moved up to Division II, the Burns Arena served as the team's home as they competed first in the Pacific West Conference and then the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Red Storm, as the team was known at the time, clinched its first Pac-West regular season title with a win at the Burns Arena in 2010.
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That same year, Dixie State College considered affiliation with the University of Utah, and “U. officials said dropping the 'baggage' of Dixie would be mandatory." "'Dixie' has connotations of the Old South, the Confederacy, and racism,’ Randy Dryer, then the U. trustees' chairman, wrote to The Chronicle of Higher Education."