(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah has passed HB-479, allowing universities to directly pay athletes for their name, image, and likeness–or NIL payments. The bill ensures Utah schools stay competitive and clarifies athletes are not university employees. It bans using state funds for NIL payments, requires audits every five years, […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — About 27-thousand students are participating in the state’s latest effort to provide scholarship funding. This week, officials say nearly 16-thousand applications on behalf of those students were submitted for consideration under guidelines for the Utah Fits All Scholarship. The application deadline was Monday. Utah lawmakers […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — With graduation season nearing, Latinos, LGBTQ students, Pacific Islanders and others are considering how to proceed with celebrations marking the end of their undergraduate years at many Utah universities because of HB 261. Utah Commissioner of Higher Education Geoffrey Landward says his office is working […]
