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Snow College Leads State in Scholarships for Utah Student Athletes

The Deseret News just reported that 597 high school students in the 2012 graduating class received a scholarship to play college athletics this fall. Most of the students are going to colleges outside of Utah. Of the students heading to in-state schools the largest number are going to be playing for Snow College. According to theDeseret News, “Snow signed in the most in-state kids with 21.” See Deseret News, June 29, 2012

After publishing this post we went back add added up the number of high school students in the 2012 graduating class who are coming to Snow College on athletic scholarship. The number is 38, which is higher than the Deseret News report. 

My American History Summer

I just returned from a wonderful two-week vacation. Instead of hiking 150 miles along the John Muir Trail—like I did last summer—I decided to do the intellectual equivalent. I enrolled in two intensive, weeklong, master degree level, American Government and History classes at a small liberal arts university in Ohio—Ashland University. My classes were taught by visiting professors. I came home with 13 books and about a thousand pages of other materials. I read much of it in preparation for the classes and during the weeks there, and I look forward to getting through the rest of it over the course of the next several months.

The faculty was outstanding: I took Civil War and Reconstruction from Mackubin T. Owens, U.S. Naval War College, and Lucas Morel, Washington and Lee University; and The American Revolution from Robert M.S. McDonald, U.S. Military Academy, and Scott Yenor, Boise State University.

I come home with a much greater appreciation and understanding of these two significant periods in our nation’s history, motivation to learn more, and a few ideas for the one class I teach at Snow College—American National Government.