Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Seal of Brigham Young University
Motto	"The Glory of God is Intelligence" or "Enter to learn, go forth to serve" or "The world is our campus"
Type	Private coeducational
Established	October 16 1875
President	Cecil O. Samuelson
Academic staff	1,600 full-time, 550 part-time
Students	30,200
Undergraduates	26,928 full-time, 3,314 part-time
Location	Provo , Utah , United States
Campus	Suburban, 560 acres
Colors	Dark blue and white (royal blue and white until 2000)
Nickname	Cougars
Affiliations	LDS Church
Mascot	Cosmo the Cougar
Website	http://www.byu.edu

Brigham Young University, often referred to as BYU, is the flagship university of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The vast majority of students at BYU are LDS and as a condition of admission to the university they commit to obey a stringent honor code while they attend BYU. BYU is often known for its low tuition costs, especially for a private university of its size. A large number of its students have some proficiency in a foreign language. BYU is located in Provo, Utah, approximately 50 miles to the south of Salt Lake City.

Brigham Young University

Additional facilities include a study center in Israel (the BYU Jerusalem Center); a satellite campus to the north in Utah's capital and largest city, Salt Lake City, (the BYU Salt Lake Center); and study centers all over the world, including London and Washington, D.C. Until recently, BYU operated an academy for its students at Nauvoo, Illinois, a town that figures prominently in Latter-day Saint history (the Joseph Smith Academy).

The LDS Church also has sister four-year schools in Lā'ie, Hawai'i (Brigham Young University-Hawaii) and Rexburg, Idaho (Brigham Young University-Idaho). These schools enroll an additional 14,700 students. The church also runs LDS Business College, a two-year school in downtown Salt Lake City. All these schools are institutionally independent from Brigham Young University, with their own administrations and accreditation.

History

BYU's origin can be traced back to 1862. In that year, a man named Warren Dusenberry started a school in a prominent Provo building called Cluff Hall. Cluff Hall was located at 200 East and 200 North (northeastern corner), and was made of adobe. Dusenberry paid $50 a month in rent for the use of Cluff Hall, and he manufactured the desks for the school himself. In 1865, he departed from his school to enter into private business and to go on a mission for the LDS Church. In 1869, he started another school in Provo with his brother, this time in a different building. This school flourished, so they relocated to a building called the Lewis Building on Center and 300 West.[1]

When the student body of the Dusenberry brothers' school hit 300, the school became a part of the University of Deseret, based in Salt Lake City. The school in Provo was called the Timpanogos branch.[2]

On October 16, 1875, Brigham Young, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, purchased the Lewis Building. This is the commonly held founding date of BYU.[3] Young broke the school off from the University of Deseret and christened it "Brigham Young Academy."[4] Young told one of his sons:

"I hope to see an Academy established in Provo... at which the children of the Latter-day Saints can receive a good education unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences that are found in so many of the higher schools of the country."[5]

Classes at the new Brigham Young Academy commenced on the 3rd of January, 1876. Reed Smoot was the first of 29 students to regsiter for classes on that day. Warren Dusenberry served as the principal of the school until April of 1876, when he was replaced by a German immigrant named Karl Maeser.[6]

In January of 1884, a chemistry-lab fire destroyed the Lewis Building. Students then temporarily had class in three separate locations before relocating to a warehouse on University Avenue. The students attended class in the warehouse until January 1892, when an elaborate sandstone building called the "BY Academy Building" was completed.[7]

Brigham Young Academy was initially more like a present-day high school than a university. Some academy students were at the elementary level and they received tutoring from older students. The high school was broken off as a separate unit in 1895.[8] High school students would outnumber the university students for a long time; in 1910, there were about 200 students at the university level, but more than 800 at the high school level. The high school class of 1907 was ultimately responsible for the famous giant "Y" that is to this day embedded on a mountain near campus.[9]

In 1903, Brigham Young Academy changed its name to Brigham Young University.[10]

In 1904, BYU bought 17 acres of land from Provo.[11] This land was called "Temple Hill," and many people had presumed that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would build a temple on this property. Because of the expectation that a church temple would be built on Temple Hill, some people were opposed to BYU buying the land. But thanks to the leadership of a BYU student named Byron Owen Colton, the opposition to the land purchase was assuaged and the deal was consummated.[12] It was on this Temple Hill land, north of the BY Academy Building, that present-day BYU was begun.

In 1909, construction began on the first building on the current campus.[13]

BYU was once the largest private university in the United States, but has since been surpassed by the nationwide University of Phoenix (240,000), which has campuses around the world; it remains one of the world's largest church-affiliated universities, with an enrollment of roughly 30,200 undergraduate students during the 2004-05 school year.

Campus

Looking East toward Y Mountain

The main campus sits on approximately 600 acres (2.43 km²) nestled at the base of the Wasatch Mountains and includes 333 buildings. The buildings on the campus are mostly plain and utilitarian (with a few rare exceptions). However, the grass, trees, and flower beds on BYU's campus are impeccably maintained. Furthermore, views of the Wasatch Mountains, (including Mount Timpanogos) can be seen from the campus. BYU's Harold B. Lee Library, which in 2004 the Princeton Review ranked as the #1 "Great College Library", has more than 6 million items in its collections, contains 98 miles of shelving, and can seat 4,600 people.

BYU Salt Lake Center

BYU also has an extension, the BYU Salt Lake Center in Salt Lake City. Admitted BYU students may register for classes the same way as with any class on the main Provo campus. Also, with proper clearance, nonadmitted students may also register for classes. Because of this, fewer of the Salt Lake Center's students are college-age compared to Provo. However, while these credits can be applied at BYU or transferred to other universities, registration does constitute admittance to BYU. The Salt Lake Center, with its tendency toward smaller class sizes than the main campus, is a more relaxed atmosphere, and BYU has capitalized on this fact in advertising.

Student housing

• Amanda Knight Hall (1939, no longer used as housing)
• Heritage Halls, apartment-style living (1953)
• Helaman Halls, dorm-style living (1958, rebuilt 2002)
• Wymount Terrace, married family housing (1962)
• Deseret Towers, dorm-style living (1964, scheduled for renovation in 2007)
• Wyview Park, apartment-style living (1971, rebuilt 1998)
• Foreign Language Student Residence

Additionally, branches of the BYU Creamery provide basic food and general grocery products for students living in Deseret Towers, Heritage Halls, Wymount, and Wyview, though they are also frequented by visitors and members of the community, often for ice cream.

Ownership and control

BYU is wholly owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the church provides it with a large subsidy from Latter-day Saint funds, providing roughly 70% of the cost of education at BYU. The church subsidizes the education of both LDS and non-LDS students. Because of the church's subsidy, there is a two-tier tuition system, in which non-LDS students pay approximately 50% higher tuition than LDS students (for the 2005-2006 academic year, LDS members will pay $1705 to attend a semester full-time, while their non-LDS counterparts will pay $2558).

The university is operated by its board of trustees, which is chaired by the church's First Presidency, and the majority of its other members are selected from the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This board selects a president who, since 1996, has been a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, chosen in part for his academic credentials. BYU has never had a female president, although typically there have been one or two female members of the board of trustees. Cecil O. Samuelson is currently (2006) the president of BYU.

Student and faculty demographics

Students from every state in the US and from many foreign countries attend BYU (in 2001, 110 different countries were represented by more than 1,600 BYU students).

About 99% of these students are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those who have never been members of the church are permitted to attend, while former members are excluded from consideration for admittance unless they are reinstated to full church fellowship. There are a number of non-LDS faculty.

BYU students and faculty are predominantly conservative, although there are several relatively left-leaning organizations, such as a small-but-active College Democrats organization as well as an organization called VOICE, which is concerned with issues such as gender equality and violence against women.

The student body is predominantly white, although there are growing populations of Latinos and Pacific Islanders, who are joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in increasing numbers.

Religious activity

BYU mandates that its students be religiously active. Students and faculty who are LDS are required to submit an affidavit stating that they are active participants in the LDS Church. The affidavit must be signed by LDS church leaders, and it must be resubmitted annually.

Non-LDS students are asked to provide a similar endorsement from an ecclesiastic leader of their choice with their application for admittance, as well as an annual review similar to the one LDS students undergo.

Honor Code

Facing north toward Timpanogos

All students and faculty, regardless of religion, voluntarily agree to adhere to a strict honor code. When first implemented in the late 1940s, the code dealt mainly with academic issues, such as cheating and plagiarism. It has since expanded (especially during the 1960s and 1970s) to become one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching honor codes at any college or university. There was some dissent from both students and teachers as the code was expanded, but by and large, the changes have held over the decades.

The BYU honor code governs not only academic behavior, but morality, and dress and grooming standards of students and faculty, with the aim of providing an atmosphere consistent with LDS principles. The Honor Code requires:

• Abstinence from illicit drugs, alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea (substances forbidden by the LDS Word of Wisdom)
• Honesty
• Encouraging others in their commitment to keep the Honor Code
• Living a Chaste and virtuous life:
  • Appropriate gender-specific behavior (no sexual harassment)
  • No involvement with pornographic or indecent material
  • No inappropriate sexual activity (no sexual relationships outside of marriage)
  • No homosexual behavior or advocacy
• Obedience to the law
• Active participation in Church services (according to whatever religion one is a member)
• Respect for others
• Clean language
• Dress and Grooming Standards. Abiding by the guidelines for dress, grooming, and housing. Skirts and shorts must reach to the knee and shirts may not be sleeveless. Male students may not wear beards or goatees without permission; such permission is usually granted only to men with skin conditions aggravated by shaving or to men whose religious beliefs, such as Islam or Sikhism, require them to wear beards. However, you may often see a bearded student or two preparing for a theatre performance.

Students have the option of living in on-campus housing, with family members who reside in the local area, or in off campus housing which must pass a school inspection for health and safety as well as satisfactory separation of gender quarters and compliance with other standards. This approval is designed to ensure that students live in a safe environment that is consistent with the standards of the University.

A signed commitment to live the honor code is part of the application process.

Academics

BYU is organized into 11 colleges:

Biology and Agriculture David O. McKay School of Education Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology Family, Home, and Social Sciences Fine Arts and Communications Health and Human Performance

Humanities J. Reuben Clark Law School Marriott School of Management Nursing Physical and Mathematical Sciences

BYU also manages some courses through the following quasi-college departments:

• David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
• Religious Education
• Undergraduate Education

BYU has 194 bachelor's degree programs, 68 master's degree programs, and a juris doctorate program. BYU does not have a medical school.

BYU's undergraduate accounting program has been highly ranked.

Philo T. Farnsworth developed some of his ideas for the creation of the television while attending BYU. Harvey Fletcher, a BYU alumnus, went on to carry out the now famous oil-drop experiment with Robert Millikan, and was later Founding Dean of the BYU College of Engineering. The notable open source project phpLDAPadmin was developed in, and is currently maintained by, the department of Computer Science.

BYU runs the largest study-abroad program in the United States, with satellite centers in London, Jerusalem, and Paris, as well as more than 20 other sites. The Institute of International Education ranks BYU as the number one university in the US to offer students study abroad opportunities; nearly 2,000 students take advantage of these programs yearly. On June 9th, 2006, BYU announced that the BYU Jerusalem Center would reopen on a limited basis starting in the Fall 2006 semester, after closing in 2000 due to safety concerns related to the Second Intifada.

All undergraduate students, regardless of their religion, must take a handful of religious courses to graduate. Students have a degree of flexibility with these religious courses, although they must take at least two courses covering the Book of Mormon, one covering the New Testament, and one covering the Doctrine and Covenants.

Performing arts

BYU has a 500-member choral program, one of the largest in the United States. There are four BYU auditioned choirs:

• BYU Singers (40 voices) A prestigious choir that has traveled extensively and recorded CDs.
• Concert Choir (85-95 voices) A large mixed choir.
• BYU Men's Chorus One of the largest male collegiate choirs in the United States.
• BYU Women's Chorus (200 female voices) A showcase of choral music for treble voices.

There is also a non-auditioned University Chorale.

The BYU Ballroom Dance Company is known as one of the best formation ballroom dance teams in the world. The NDCA National DanceSport championships have been held at BYU for many years, and BYU holds dozens of ballroom dance classes each semester, totalling thousands of students per semester, making it by far the largest ballroom dance program in the US.

The Young Ambassadors are a song and dance performing group of 50 years. Since their first international performance at Expo '70 in Japan, they have performed throughout the United States and over 56 other nations. Their audiences have included the prime minister of India, the queen of Thailand, and the king and queen of Jordan.

Foreign languages at BYU

The BYU Centennial Carillon stands at the north end of campus

One unique aspect of BYU is its abundance of foreign language study.

Over three fourths of the student body speak a second language (numbering 107 languages in total), and many faculty are fluent in at least one language other than English. This is largely due to the fact that 82% of the men and 13% of the women at BYU have been missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and many of them learned a foreign language as part of their mission assignment.

The church's largest Missionary Training Center (MTC) is adjacent to the main BYU campus, and is known for its intensive language-training program for new missionaries. Most of the language instructors at the MTC are BYU students who recently returned from missions themselves.

During any given semester, about one-third of the student body is enrolled in foreign language classes, a rate nearly four times the national average. BYU offers courses in 66 different languages, many with advanced courses which are seldom offered elsewhere.

BYU also offers an intensive foreign language living experience, the Foreign Language Student Residence (FLSR). The FLSR is an on-campus apartment complex where students commit to speak a foreign language while in their apartments, often with native speakers.

BYU's International Cinema is the largest and longest-running foreign film program in the country, showing 20 screenings per week to roughly 1,000 people. Its main purpose is to supplement the curriculum of the College of Humanities and the Honors Program with culturally and linguistically diverse films.

Sports programs

BYU Football

• National Championship In 1984, BYU's football team went undefeated to become the NCAA Division I-A national football champions. This was the first and only time that BYU has won the football national championship. They became champs by beating Michigan in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego, marking the first time that a number-one-ranked college football team did not play in a New Year's Day bowl game. Some, like NBC's Bryant Gumbel and Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer, criticized BYU for having a weak schedule in 1984. It didn't matter however, since BYU was undefeated and they had attained the number one ranking in the AP, UPI, and other polls.

• Heisman Trophy Winner In 1990, quarterback Ty Detmer won college football's most prestigious individual award, the Heisman Trophy. Detmer is the only BYU football player ever to win the award. On September 8, 1990, before a national viewing audience on ESPN, BYU defeated the number-one-ranked Miami Hurricanes 28-21 in Provo. Detmer passed for 5,188 yards and 41 touchdowns during this season.

Former NFL greats Steve Young and Jim McMahon played college football at BYU.

LaVell Edwards Stadium

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BYU's logo from 1969 until 1998

The head football coach during BYU's football glory years was LaVell Edwards. Edwards is a legend among college football coaches, winning 257 games over a span of 29 years. Only five other head coaches have won more games. He was twice awarded with coach of the year awards (1979 and 1984). Edwards' last season as head coach was in 2000; upon his retirement, BYU renamed its football venue from Cougar Stadium to LaVell Edwards Stadium in his honor. [14] [15].

During BYU's football glory days, the school colors were bright royal blue and white. In 1999, the school colors got a makeover, switching to dark blue and tan, with the football helmets switching from white to dark blue. The modern-styled football uniforms proved to be unpopular, and the traditional design with the white helmet was reinstituted for the 2005 season—although the darker blue remains on the home jerseys and the road pants.

BYU vs. Utah Football Rivalry

Main article: Utah-BYU rivalry

BYU has a historic and regional rivalry with the University of Utah. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal ranked this the number four rivalry in the nation.[16]

Other Sports

The BYU women's cross-country team won the NCAA National Championship in 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2002. BYU has also won NCAA National Championships in golf, track, and men's volleyball (3 times: in 1999, 2001, and 2004). The school colors are dark blue and white. Its mascot is Cosmo the Cougar and its primary conference is the Mountain West Conference. Its men's volleyball team plays in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. BYU's men's soccer club participates as a university-owned franchise in the United Soccer Leagues' Premier Development League.

BYU is a major force in American colligiate rugby, with several students and alumni providing players to the United States national rugby union team, the Eagles.

BYU also has a strong intramural sports program, offering more than 30 sports and involving more than 10,000 participants each year.

Academic freedom issues

Looking North from the Kimball Tower toward Mount Timpanogos

Like many other religious schools, BYU is often at the center of controversies regarding academic freedom. In 1992, the university drafted a new Statement on Academic Freedom. After receiving comment from faculty and others, the document was implemented by BYU administrators on September 14, 1992. This document specified that: "Because the gospel encompasses all truth and affirms the full range of human modes of knowing, the scope of integration for LDS scholars is, in principle, as wide as truth itself." However, citing BYU's role as a religious institution, the document allowed limitations to be placed upon "expression with students or in public that:

1. contradicts or opposes, rather than analyzes or discusses, fundamental Church doctrine or policy;

2. deliberately attacks or derides the Church or its general leaders; or

3. violates the Honor Code because the expression is dishonest, illegal, unchaste, profane, or unduly disrespectful of others.

"...The ultimate responsibility to determine harm to the University mission or the church, however, remains vested in the University's governing bodies—including the University president and central administration and, finally, the board of Trustees."

Also in 1992, the university began including a clause in its faculty contracts requiring LDS faculty to "accept the spiritual and temporal expectations of wholehearted Church membership". In 1993, contracts further required LDS faculty to "accept as a condition of employment the standards of conduct consistent with qualifying for temple privileges" (referring to entry into LDS temples, for which one must meet standards of activity and behavior in the LDS Church). In 1996, LDS faculty were required, as a condition of employment, to obtain the yearly endorsement of their local ecclesiastical leaders certifying that the faculty were temple-worthy.

Soon after adopting the statement in 1992, BYU took actions which some have viewed as related to the implementation of the new academic freedom policy. For example, in late 1992, the university's board of trustees vetoed without comment a BYU proposal to invite Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard University professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, an active feminist, to address the annual BYU Women's Conference. Since then, the university has also dismissed, denied continuing status, or censured faculty members who have taken critical positions relating to official church policy or leadership.

For example, in 1993, BYU denied continuing status to Cecilia Konchar Farr, who had publicly advocated a pro-choice position on abortion, and to David Knowlton, who had critically discussed the church's missionary system at an independent Mormon forum. In 1996, BYU dismissed Gail T. Houston, a feminist who advocated prayer to a Heavenly Mother, despite positive votes from her English Department and the College Committee. Also in 1996, professor Brian Evenson resigned in protest after receiving a warning from BYU administration over some violent images in one of his short stories. Most recently, in 2006, part-time faculty instructor Jeffrey Nielsen's contract was not renewed after he wrote an op-ed piece in the June 4 Salt Lake Tribune which criticized and opposed the Mormon Church's stance on same-sex marriage.

Officially, BYU spokespeople generally framed the actions in the cases of Farr, Knowlton, and Houston as relating to the quality of the professors' scholarship, and sometimes to unspecified misbehavior, rather than the controversial content of the affected professor's academic activities. Nevertheless, some critics viewed these dismissals as a kind of "purge." In 1997, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a report documenting the cases of Houston, Farr, Knowlton, Evenson, Epperson, and others, concluding "that infringements on academic freedom are distressingly common and that the climate for academic freedom is distressingly poor".

The AAUP report also contained, as an appendix, a response authored by the BYU administration, which argued that BYU had the right to limit academic freedom in order to preserve the religious character of the school, a right implied by a 1940 AAUP statement and generally followed until 1970. In particular, BYU compared itself to Gonzaga University, a Jesuit institution which prohibited "open espousal of viewpoints which contradict explicit principles of Catholic faith and morals." In 1965, however, the AAUP had stated that "satisfactory conditions of academic freedom and tenure now prevail at Gonzaga".

BYU's arguments, however, failed to persuade the AAUP, which had changed its views since 1940. In 1970, the AAUP had adopted a statement of Interpretive Comments in which the AAUP had stated, "Most church-related institutions no longer need or desire the departure from the principle of academic freedom implied in the 1940 Statement, and we do not endorse such a departure". Nor was the AAUP persuaded by BYU's response to criticisms that the academic freedom process lacked transparency and objectivity. Thus, in 1998, the AAUP voted to enter BYU on its list of censured organizations, on which it remains to the present, together with 42 other institutions [17]. The president of BYU at the time of the investigation and censure, Merrill J. Bateman, left the university in 2003; the AAUP subsequently sent the new president a description of the steps needed to have the censure removed.

Culture

BYU's social and cultural atmosphere is unique. The high rate of enrollment at the university by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints results in an amplification of LDS cultural norms which are often caricatured.

One of the characteristics of BYU most often pointed out is its reputation for emphasizing a "marriage culture". Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints highly value marriage and family, as well as marriage within the faith. Consequently, the enormous population of LDS single adults in and around Provo makes it a mecca for singles in the church, irrespective of their affiliation with BYU. BYU's reputation as a place to court potential mates is well known both within and without the BYU community, and is encouraged to some extent by the school's administrators and ecclesiastical leaders, who publicly highlight "successful" marriage statistics.

Most BYU students are acutely aware of the marriage stereotype, and many female students contribute to it by dropping out before graduation due to marriage and subsequent pregnancy. 56.3% of the men and 42.4% of the women in BYU's class of 2004 were married (the average age at graduation being 24.3). An earlier study ending in 1990 showed that 65% of matriculated male students ended up graduating, while the rate among matriculated female students was only 35%. Marriage statistics for the state of Utah as a whole indicate that BYU's marriage rate falls well within that of the state in general, with the median age at marriage in Utah being 23 for men, and 21 for women. It should be noted, however, that the percentage of married students at BYU is much higher than at most other universities, and the median age of marriage in Utah is significantly lower than in the United States as a whole. In regard to marriage, BYU is thus best described as a reflection of the cultural practices of the LDS population as a whole (and particularly that of the Mountain West, which is significantly more culturally conservative than LDS populations elsewhere within the United States), rather than as an outlier.

BYU's large body of students who have served as missionaries for the LDS Church significantly shapes the institution's culture. Young men are strongly encouraged to serve full-time two-year missions for the LDS Church after turning 19. Consequently, men typically attend BYU for their freshman year and then take a two year break from school to serve a mission. Thus, the average male sophomore at BYU is 21 years old. Although LDS women can also serve full-time missions, the church does not press them to do so. Additionally, missions for LDS females are only 18 months in duration, and females may not serve full-time missions until after reaching 21 years of age.

Perceptions

Many visitors to BYU, and the Utah Valley as a whole, report being surprised at the genuinely wholesome environment. Very few BYU students consume alcohol, tobacco or illegal substances. According to the Uniform Crime Reports, incidents of crime in Provo are lower than average with two exceptions: larceny/theft and rape, both of which exceed the national rate[18]. The Princeton Review has rated BYU the "#1 stone cold sober school" for several years running, an honor on which LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley has often commented with pride. The school's strait-laced reputation is a major selling point in athletic recruiting: as non-LDS players (particularly African-Americans from inner cities) have become ever more important to the school's teams, BYU's wholesomeness is often attractive for prospective students who prefer an academic or social environment without the distractions of alcohol or drug use.

BYU also attracts a significant number of Muslim students. Because of BYU's strict no-alcohol, no-premarital-sex environment, BYU offers a safe starting out point for students from conservative Muslim countries, whose parents want their children to have an American education, but wish to shield their children at least somewhat from American culture's many vices. BYU has a particularly high number of Palestinians.

Notable alumni

Many BYU alumni have achieved notoriety in fields such as business, athletics, and entertainment.

• List of Brigham Young University people, which includes alumni.

See also

• Brigham Young University Arboretum
• BYU Jerusalem Center
• BYU 100 Hour Board
• BYU Testing Center
• Frank Abagnale, an impostor who claimed to have taught sociology at the university for a semester.

External links

• Official website of BYU
• Official website of BYU's Harold B. Lee Library
• Official BYU athletics site
• Official Brigham Young High School site
• Idaho campus
• Hawaii campus
• LDS Business College
• BYU High School Alumni
• BYU Jerusalem Center
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — BYU's sponsoring institution
• American Association of University Professors list of censured administrations
• BYU Speeches - given by Latter-day Saints at BYU, Provo, addressed to BYU students
• BYU Television - Church affiliated TV-Channel operated by BYU, Provo
• BYU Studies (historical and academic articles, sermons) some past issues online
• YWiki - A repository for student information about BYU life and culture
• BYU Photographs from 1875 to 1975
• CougarHousing.com - BYU Off-Campus housing database