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Also on our mind:Super Bowl tickets are hitting record high prices, seminary is changing for Latter-day Saint students and Mayor Erin Mendenhall shared her blueprints for an accessible and vibrant future for Salt Lake City in the 2024 state of Salt Lake City address.
Utah needs to pay attention to waning confidence in higher education, says University of Utah president
The University of Utah and other public colleges and universities in Utah are feeling the effects of declining confidence in institutions of higher education nationwide.
A 2023 Gallup poll indicates confidence in higher education plunged from 57% in 2015 to 36% in 2023.
“You will see that since 2015, there’s no public institution that seems to have lost more confidence (among) Americans than higher ed. I think that is something that we have to listen to, and we have to address,” University of Utah President Taylor Randall told members of the Utah Legislature’s Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday.
Read more about the waning confidence in higher ed.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Utah who are Republican are less likely than Republicans nationally to view former President Donald Trump as a “person of faith,” and are more likely to say President Joe Biden is a person of faith, according to a new poll.
The Deseret News and polling firm HarrisX conducted a series of national surveys in late 2023 gauging U.S. voters’ perspectives on politicians’ faith. In an October poll, 53% of Republicans said Trump is a person of faith; in December, 62% of Republicans said he is.
But a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute poll of Utah voters shows that Latter-day Saints in the state — even those who identify as Republicans — are much less likely to view Trump as a person of faith.
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Report alleging striking increase in Utah gender dysphoria diagnoses is retracted (Deseret News)
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Health
Americans are overdoing protein — and lacking on fiber (Deseret News)
Neuralink’s first brain implant patient is ‘recovering well,’ Elon Musk reports (Deseret News)
Faith
Honor the ‘holiness of diversity,’ Eboo Patel tells young adults (Deseret News)
Seminary is changing for Latter-day Saint students (Deseret News)
Travel
Why U.S. travelers are being warned about the Bahamas (Deseret News)
Passengers say man ‘saved our lives’ by opening emergency exit door on plane and walking out onto wing (Deseret News)
Utah
Here’s what a new poll says about eliminating Utah’s state income tax (Deseret News)
Some parents claim Salt Lake district's school closing process was 'fatally tainted' (KSL)
Preparing future citizens: Ogden launches program to promote citizenship among immigrants (KSL)
Iron County jail becomes 1st in Utah to adopt IGNITE inmate education program (St. George News)
The West
Tickets for Super Bowl in Las Vegas hitting record prices (Deseret News)
Train engineer from Park City seriously injured in train derailment in Colorado (Deseret News)
The Nation
Ohio prohibits sex-transition surgeries for minors, and restricts transgender athletes in women’s sports (Deseret News)
Ex-IRS contractor receives 5-year prison sentence for leaking tax returns from Donald Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans (Deseret News)
The World
Here’s why the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance could be solved soon (Deseret News)
Biden says he has decided U.S. response to Jordan attack (BBC)
“I’m going to compete to win — but I also understand that if it doesn’t happen I need to keep things in perspective. … It’s a lot of pressure, but also an exciting time. You never know what’s going to happen,” Mantz said.