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BYU-Pathway Worldwide Offers Online, Higher Education Thursday, February 18, 2021 - by Phil Smartt BYU-Pathway Worldwide provides “access to spiritually based degrees completely online at an affordable price” for those in the greater Chattanooga area and around the world. The story begins some 50 years ago when Henry B. Eyring (now a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) was inaugurated as the president of Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho). He stated then that Ricks College would “find direct ways to move the blessings of education…from this campus out into the lives of men and women everywhere.” About 30 years later, David A. Bednar (now a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) made similar remarks. In 2009, BYU-Idaho launched Pathway (now called PathwayConnect), which grew from serving 50 students in the US to “serving more than 14,000 in over 60 countries in 2016. In 2017, the First Presiden ....