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'Mormon-friendly' colleges planned for Nevada, Nauvoo

Moapa, Nevada? Are they joking? What 18 year old in their right mind would want to go to college in Moapa?

Are you kidding? Have you ever been to Moapa Valley?

It remains to be seen if this is just another persons dream around the Nauvoo theme..and there have been many, many, such dreams in the past that have never born fruit. Something we have observed in past years with Nauvoo. Moapa and Nauvoo...why especially Moapa, Nv. ???? Next to Vegas down the road which is certainly no place for teen agers to go...there is only sagebrush and a few indians in Moapa!!!Be careful investors. The Brethren could not envision it over the years...be careful indeed.

Jim Bridger to Brigham Young in 1847, somewhere in Wyoming, "I will give $50 for the first bushel of corn you can grow in that valley." I wonder if B.Y. ever collected the $50. Who knows what crop will spring from the seeds planted in Moapa valley?

Why cloister Mormon students in "Mormon-friendly" schools? And shouldn't all those years in Seminary and Young Men and Young Women prepare them to deal intelligently with challenging ideas?

Plus, SVU a "success"? Hanging on by its fingernails--is that success?

As the church grows, and as fewer and fewer are able to get into church-run schools, these types of schools are necessary to help young adults stay strong in the gospel and get an education in an environment with others who share their values. Can't wait to see how these schools fare!

Will these new colleges also have dumb bell honors calculus the same as BYU?, where techniques of integration are waived in favor of measuring the area under graphs by hand?

Sounds like these could be nice opportunities for the right students. I hope the colleges can make the finances work.

It seems misrepresentational to me that on the Nauvoo University website "Quick facts" page, they have the BYU Universities listed as "sister institutions" along with links to them as though they are affiliated or endorsed by BYU.

I don't know where the Moapa Valley is, but I certainly know where Nauvoo is. I've been there many times and I think it is just great that they are trying to start an LDS-oriented college in Nauvoo. I agree that there need to be more opportunities for kids that can't attend BYU for one reason or another. As a life-long Cougar, I wish every LDS kid that wants to could attend BYU. However, not everyone can so I hope many will get the opportunity to attend another school that would give them an LDS college experience.

People should also check out George Wythe Collge. It is moving it's campus to Monticello, Utah. It also offers an alternative LDS experience in a liberal arts environment.

Anyway, I applaud those who are doing this and, if I hadn't already graduated, I would love to have an opportunity to take a few classes and have an historic and cultural LDS experience in Nauvoo.

Moapa couldn't be any worse than Rexburg, Idaho... cows & farms!

Southern Virginia U. has worked well.
The world will benefit from more of this kind of school.

They might go for the fireworks.

Great idea! LDS youth everywhere need the opportunity to associate with like minded youth. Out here in the "mission field" too many go to high school and university and are amongst only a handful of LDS. And, before anyone gets their back up, wouldn't you like your children and young adults associating with others that were raised with the same values whether LDS or not?

I am currently a PhD student at George Wythe College in Cedar City, Utah. Although GWC is non-demoinational it is probably 90% LDS. The staff and mentors are very open to any students of all religions. Their main goal is to develop men and women into statesmen who will seek to bring about the cause of liberty to all. After three years it has be a great experience and I hope these new schools of higher education will stress some of the same principle that George Wythe College stresses.

"aimed at Latter-day Saint students who are not admitted to Brigham Young University or its campuses in Idaho and Hawaii"

Somewhat biased I would say. Lets round up the flunkies that couldn't get into a church school. Did it ever occur to the author that some might want to go to a smaller school and others might choose it for the programs it may offer or for geographical reasons?

Living in Indiana not terribly far from Nauvoo, I applaud the efforts to bring a church-based school to the midwest. It will not "cloister" the students, rather allow them to mix with many here who are not of our faith. We will certainly help this institution however we can.

Intersting business: and a business it is. The pop. extrapolations would be easy to make, the financial plan easier than that. Mormon Church officials have already met with these folks? Hmmmm. A chance for someone to make a lot of money by buying up land near these places/sites.

This could be very interesting... as a business.

Why can't Mormon kids go to regular colleges? Aren't their testimonies strong enough to survive the real world? These schools will be nothing more than a high school. Buyer beware!

Southern Va needs help with it's academic reputation among many things, maybe instead of starting new schools they should enhance the ones out there in business now.

The BYU schools are top notch and respected, Saints need to be careful opening schools that are not very well regarded academically because it reflects on our religion and our people.