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Dixie State president gives mid-semester update on name change, legislative success and housing shortage

Dixie State president gives mid-semester update on name change, legislative success and housing shortage
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Change Dixie State name, 65% of focus group participants say — but don t call it Deseret

ST. GEORGE After 47 focus group discussions to consider a possible name change for Dixie State University, 65% of participants support a change that does not include the name Dixie, according to results released on Wednesday. A name that includes Utah emerged as the top theme among six presented to focus group participants. The least favorite theme, by far, was Deseret. Sounds strictly like a religious school, one participant said. I m an active Latter-day Saint, and I think it s a terrible idea, said another. Others said it looks like a typo while another said it would be an immediate turnoff, maybe even more than Dixie.

Dixie State name change process takes ugly turn after Facebook threat

Dixie State name change process takes ugly turn after Facebook threat
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Your Turn: A focus on STEM is great, but what about civics and civility?

The Orrin G. Hatch Center recently published an op-ed titled America is facing a civics crisis. Here s how to fix it.  It states that we are in A pandemic of civic disengagement and deepening recession in civic education. According to the Nation s Report Card, only 15% of students are proficient in American history and a mere 24% are proficient in civics. and only one in three Americans could pass the citizenship test. we must make the teaching of civics a greater priority in our schools. The report continues. Over the last two decades, civics has taken a back seat to STEM education both in terms of funding and time devoted to classroom instruction. If numbers are any indication of how much we value civic education, then we value it hardly at all. Consider that each year, the federal government invests more than $50 per student on STEM education and a pitiful 5 cents per student on civic education. Judging by this metric, civics is 1,000 times less important than STEM. If we

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