President Richard “Biff” Williams introduced Dixie State University’s next proposed strategic plan during the 2020 State of the University Address. The plan, also known as Trailblazer Distinction 2020-2025, features five goals: Academic distinction, which DSU hopes to accomplish by establishing an open and inclusive environment with a polytechnic blend of curricular and co-curricular experiences, as […]
While arguments for Dixie State University to keep its current name based on the cost of rebranding, nostalgia and good intentions are understandable, denying Dixie’s racist connotation and claiming the term as pioneer heritage is going too far. The controversial connotation may have been unintended initially, but pretending Dixie was never controversial and doubling down […]
Ding! Ding! Ding! Your post has over 150 comments, and most of them are people arguing and asking questions about what you just posted. You might think: “Oh no, I wasn’t expecting this. Why are they reacting this way? How do I deal with this?” Should you engage? If so, how? Here are five tips […]
Dixie State University is citing HIPAA as its reason for not notifying professors that a student has COVID-19 unless they come into close contact. According to a Sept. 1 Fox 13 article, a faculty member at DSU anonymously said she was concerned that DSU wasn’t going to let her know if any of her students […]
Saying school has been weird thus far would be an understatement. A flash flood occurred the night before school started, people are divided over whether to keep the name “Dixie,” and the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our learning environment. Because of the pandemic, events have been altered or canceled, larger classes require half their students […]
Impacts of the Aug. 23 flash flood in St. George are ongoing for students at Dixie State University. Denali Lathrop, a senior English major from North Pole, Alaska, said the two people she took in that night at Red Mountain Student Housing had to go to classes the next morning despite being up late and […]
Using one issue to distract from another under the premise that you can’t focus on both is a logical fallacy. I’ve been seeing posts stating things like “Human trafficking should scare you more than COVID,” and “Human trafficking is more important than Black Lives Matter. Change my mind.” These are two examples of a false […]
The Campus Store will host a curbside textbook buyback and rental return to accommodate students during social distancing. The Dixie State University Campus Store, which has had its physical store operations shut down to slow the spread of COVID-19, will still be hosting its semesterly textbook buyback and rental return, but the event will now […]
Unemployment has been skyrocketing recently in Utah and across the United States. The jobs of Dixie State University students are no exception. Unemployment claims across Utah have been jumping for the past four weeks, and the last two weeks in particular have included record-setting highs at 28,560 and 33,076 claims, respectively. President Richard “Biff” Williams […]
The Dixie State University registration website needs an upgrade. For one thing, some of the class information is missing or inaccurate. Every semester I’ve registered for in the last two years, there have always been a few classes listed as available that clearly aren’t once you click “View Sections” and see “Please search again.” There […]
