I recently read an article about the importance of students having a “sense of mattering,” and that phrase has really stuck with me. In higher education, we talk a lot about belonging. We want students to feel connected to their university, their classes, their professors and each other. ...

A farmer can't make his plants grow, but he can create the conditions that lead to their flourishing. A society can't make its citizens virtuous, but it can nurture the institutions that lead to virtuous citizens. Great thinkers in Western civilization have long noted the importance of ...

I’ve been with EveryDay Strong since the very beginning. I did a lot of work with Women United a few years ago and I can remember the first group meeting we had that introduced EveryDay Strong. At the time, I had no idea the impact EveryDay Strong’s message would have on the functionality ...

The proposed Vesper Amphitheater project in Provo Canyon has its detractors, from some residents and environmental groups, and now, a neighboring city. The Orem City Council weighed in on the project in a letter last week, saying it intends to express its opposition to the Vesper Amphitheater ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on a fatal plane crash that occurred near Provo Airport last month. On Aug. 7, a plane piloted by student pilot Chase Day took off from Provo Airport and then went down moments later in Utah Lake, killing Day. A female ...

History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I learned, for example, that Stalin met the exiled Vladimir Lenin more than a decade before ...