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Dixie State University trustees met Tuesday to vote on a new name. They decided to recommend Utah Tech University to the Utah Board of Higher Education and state Legislature.
The Dixie State University Board of Trustees voted Tuesday on another new name: Utah Tech University.
It came after a university committee
recommended Utah Polytechnic State University on June 14. That was the result of surveys and focus groups finding the new name should include “Utah” and the school’s academic mission. At the time, the committee also suggested Utah Tech should be the school’s nickname.
More than 100 people were at the trustees’ meeting, many wearing red “Keep Dixie” shirts. Since it was not a public hearing, audience members weren’t allowed to address the board, though they did express frustration about the new name and shouted Dixie chants to close out the meeting.