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By Todd Mordhorst, Office of the Provost After five years working on the Transformational Change Initiative, principal investigator Laura Hill has a tough time coming up with any shortcomings of the grant-funded project. The initative received funding from 2016’s strategic reallocation to come up with new ways to help improve student retention. It is already boosting student success and achievement in a variety of ways. “Our goal was to have multiple touchpoints, using evidence-based programs that we know help students,” said Laura Hill, senior vice provost and co-principal investigator...

Marriott School professors author new ethics guide for Special Forces Special Operations forces carry out training exercises in this photo courtesy of the Department of Defense. Special Operations forces carry out training exercises in this photo courtesy of the Department of Defense. Leaders of U.S. Special Operations Command have turned to the expertise of two Brigham Young University professors for advice on the high-stakes ethical dilemmas their forces face. That expertise has taken the form of a new “U.S. Special Operations Forces Ethics Field Guide” written by Marriott Sc...

The Atlantic As “Do the research” becomes a rallying cry for conspiracy theorists, classical information literacy is not enough. Adam Maida / The Atlantic For too long now, shared reality has been fracturing before our eyes. Eli Pariser’s concept of the “filter bubble” is already a decade old. Yochai Benkler’s research on propaganda networks finds that the roots of our epistemic crisis predate even the existence of the social web. The origins of this broken informational environment may be complicated, but the stakes are quite clearly life-and-death—and they prompt a question: H...