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Park City leaders recently voted to formally support the Utah Compact on Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, another step in City Hall’s broad social equity efforts. The Park City Council adopted a resolution aligning the municipal government with the statewide effort. Mayor Andy Beerman and the City Council touched on the idea that the compact tracks closely with City Hall’s own work toward social equity. By supporting the compact, leaders, importantly, acknowledged a key section of the document saying “racism exists, and our actions make a difference. We call out racism wherever ...

The compact can be summarized in a few words spoken by Jesus: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

Why Utah’s outgoing governor sees himself as a Roger Staubach or a Bart Starr Dennis Romboy © Steve Griffin, Deseret News Gov. Gary Herbert talks about his time in office during an interview at the Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Gov. Gary Herbert settled into a maroon velvet armchair with gold tassels skirting the edges Monday in the ornate library of the Utah Governor’s Mansion he has called home for more than a decade. Books on Utah and Mormon history fill the glass-covered wooden shelves. A 19th century now refurbished recliner Brigh...

The Daily Universe There is more demand than supply for classes on race, gender and diversity at Brigham Young University, according to professor of sociology Jacob Rugh. Rugh compiled a list of diversity classes in 2019 as part of an effort to re-evaluate efforts to address race and equity in the BYU curriculum. He reported that over 300 students were on waitlists and unable to enroll in classes like “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity” and “Introduction to Global Women’s Studies.” Enrollment in classes covering subjects of race and gender has increased by 40% at BYU in the last ...

The Utah Compact on anti-racism is a path toward change the Deseret News Editorial Board © Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Gov. Gary Herbert speaks at the unveiling of the Utah Compact on Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Skeptics of Utah’s recent Compact on Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, announced Tuesday, will point to its ambiguity — that its principle-based approach outlines few specific changes in policy or practice to root out racism. But the document’s strength is in that same simplicity...