The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) is the

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of the state of

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. It includes each of the state's sixteen public institutions of higher education, including its eight technical colleges.

History

On March 21, 1969, the

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passed the Utah Higher Education Act of 1969, establishing the Utah System of Higher Education and its governing body, the State Board of Higher Education, to govern Utah's (at the time) nine institutions of higher learning, as well as administer the federal

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. The board was established with fifteen members, each being a citizen of the state. The system's first commissioner and executive officer was G. Homer Durham, the former president of

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. In 1977, an amendment was passed to rename the board to the Utah State Board of Regents, as well as increase its membership to sixteen, with provisions for appointing of a student member. Subsequently, a 1981 amendment further increased this number to seventeen, with the seventeenth member being the

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. Today, the board consists of eighteen Utah citizens, all of whom are appointed by the

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. Two of those members are Student Board members, one from a degree-granting public institution of higher education and the other from a technical college. Each board member is appointed to six-year staggered term, with the exception of the student board members, who are appointed to one-year terms. The Board oversees the establishment of policies and procedures, executive appointments, master planning, budget and finance, proposals for legislation, develops governmental relationships, and performs administrative unit and program approval for higher education for the State of

. In 2020, the Utah System of Technical Colleges was subsumed into the USHE, with the Utah State Board of Regents being renamed to the Utah Board of Higher Education.

Colleges and universities

Public colleges and universities

Community colleges

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Snow College Snow College is a public community college in Ephraim, Utah. It offers certificates and associate degrees in a number of areas, along with bachelor's degrees in music and software engineering and a four-year nursing program. Snow College is par ...

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Technical colleges

Bridgerland Technical College Bridgerland Technical College (BTECH), formerly Bridgerland Applied Technical college (BATC), is a public community college in Logan, Utah. It is part of the Utah System of Higher Education. The main campus is located in Logan with two satellite ...

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Davis Technical College Davis Technical College (Davis Tech) is a public technical college in Kaysville, Utah. It provides competency-based education in an open-entry, open-exit environment which prepares over 6,000 high school and adult students with career and technic ...

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Dixie Technical College Dixie Technical College (Dixie Tech) is a public technical college in St. George, Utah. It is part of the statewide Utah System of Higher Education The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) is the public university system of the state of Ut ...

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Mountainland Technical College Mountainland Technical College (MTECH) is a public community college in Lehi, Utah with additional campuses in Orem and Spanish Fork. MTECH also offers courses in cooperation with Utah Valley University Utah Valley University (UVU) is a ...

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Ogden–Weber Technical College Ogden–Weber Technical College (also referred to as OTECH, Ogden-Weber Tech or OWTC) is a public technical college in Ogden, Utah. It is one of the largest of the eight technical colleges within the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE). The c ...

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Southwest Technical College Southwest Technical College (Southwest Tech) is a public technical college in Cedar City, Utah. It serves Beaver, Garfield, Iron and Kane counties. In addition to its campus in Cedar City, Southwest Tech also operates a campus in Kanab, Utah ...

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Tooele Technical College Tooele Technical College is a public technical school in Tooele, Utah Tooele ( ) is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 35,742 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Tooele County. Located approxima ...

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Uintah Basin Technical College Uintah Basin Technical College (UBTech) is a public technical college in Roosevelt, Utah Roosevelt is a city in Duchesne County, Utah, Duchesne County, Utah, United States. The population was 6,046 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, ...

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References

External links

University of Utah Board of Regents Meeting Minutes, 1906-1969
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University of Utah Digital LibraryMarriott Library Special Collections
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