If students want a class on Monday mornings, they had better be prepared to take that class three to five days a week. The bell schedule proposal for fall 2020 has been finalized, and all morning classes are required to be scheduled either Monday, Wednesday, Friday; Monday through Friday; or Tuesday and Thursday. Afternoon classes […]
Beginning in fall 2020, Dixie State University will likely offer more class times in the morning, late afternoon and evening. DSU plans on offering more class times so it can meet state standards on space utilization by using classrooms and labs more frequently. Until state standards are met in its current buildings, DSU can’t have […]
First-generation students — those who are the first in their family to go to college — are at a serious disadvantage compared to their peers. According to the First Generation Foundation, 50% of college students are first-generation. Most of these students probably don’t know what resources are available to them or how to access them. […]
Dixie State University’s Human Performance Center had its official ribbon cutting event on Nov. 13, which included an open house of the building. The HPC features: An aquatic center with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a hot tub area A gym that can host basketball, netball, volleyball, indoor soccer and aerobics classes A two-story fitness […]
Warm drinks, snacks and silently reading while surrounded by friendly faces is every introvert bookworm’s dream. This dream has come true at Dixie State University. St. George now has a chapter of the internationally recognized Silent Book Club and its events are being hosted at DSU. It all started with an NPR article on the […]
Social undermining is a problem and it needs to stop. What is social undermining, you ask? Social undermining is when someone sabotages your goals by undercutting something you’re doing to achieve those goals. For example, if you make a joke about how, “Oh, I’d totally switch my major from English to sociology if I didn’t […]
A Dixie State University professor designed the outside of his house to look like his favorite Disneyland ride for Halloween. Joshua Pedersen, an instructor of practice in digital design, used the Makerspace at Atwood Innovation Plaza to create Haunted Mansion decorations for the exterior of his house. Pedersen said his inspiration for the decorations came […]
Students had an opportunity to voice their concerns about Dixie State University’s new strategic plan for 2025 on Oct. 3, but none showed up. DSU hosted two faculty and staff meetings as well as a community forum in the Zion Room of the Jeffrey R. Holland Centennial Commons to discuss the five-year strategic plan set […]
Mental health days count as sick days in Utah, but they need to be better implemented. In 2018, Utah revised its education laws surrounding excused absences to include “an illness, which may be either mental or physical,” which may be interpreted as permission for mental health days. But do these mental health days only apply […]
At the State of the University Address on Sept. 18, President Richard “Biff” Williams announced that Mountain America Credit Union will be partnering with Dixie State University Athletics as its official credit union. “All of you are part of that rich legacy now,” David Clark, Board of trustees Chair “You can’t have a State of […]