REXBURG, Idaho (AP)-Per reports from various Salt Lake City television stations, Tuesday morning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced a new online education system.
In speaking on the campus of Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, LDS Church First Presidency Second Counselor Dieter F. Uchtdorf revealed its name as Pathway and revealed what it shall accomplish.
Uchtdorf stated the time is right for Pathway and lauded its ability, being an online service, to provide higher education opportunities to those who would not have them otherwise.
Pathway is a hybrid of online college education and teaching students pragmatic lessons to help them succeed in the working world.
The program will be available in local LDS institutes of religion or meetinghouses in “an environment of faith, grounded in the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Uchtdorf said.
Clark Gilbert, currently the president of BYU-Idaho, was named the president of what will now officially be called BYU-Pathway.
At the Tuesday devotional at BYU-Idaho, slated for later this afternoon, the new president at the Rexburg campus will be named.
The Pathway program will officially commence May 1. More information is available at pathway.lds.org.
