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Welcome to Wheatley Institute

Learn more about our mission and who we are.
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2025 American Family Survey Launch

Expert panel discussion Nov 14
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Resources for Peacemaking

Online resources for dialogue and depolarization.

Strengthening society through research-supported work that fortifies the core institutions of family, religion, and constitutional government.

INITIATIVES

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2025 American Family Survey - Launch Discussion

8:00 AM
Friday, November 14
Views on the cost of raising kids, the impact of technology, immigration, fertility, and more.
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Forum: Confronting Political Violence

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday, December 09
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Farewell

June 11, 2019 09:00 AM
It has been a singular honor and privilege to serve for the past nearly twelve years as director of the Wheatley Institute. Not everyone has the opportunity to expend his or her professional efforts in a cause to which they can freely and eagerly give their heart and soul. But this has been my extreme good fortune.
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Paul S. Edwards Named New Director of the Wheatley Institute

June 11, 2019 09:00 AM
After 12 years of service, founding director Richard Williams, will be returning to full-time teaching and research in Counseling, Psychology and Special Education in the David O. McKay School of Education.
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Remembering Dan Robinson

September 20, 2018 03:04 PM
Wheatley Senior Fellow Dan Robinson passed away on September 17, 2018 from heart failure. The following are heartfelt sentiments from current Wheatley Staff about Robinson's impact on them personally and professionally.
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Deseret News Features Wheatley Fellow Jenet Erickson's Perspective on Roe V. Wade

May 20, 2022 09:00 AM
Jenet Jacob Erickson, an Associate Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University and Wheatley Institute Fellow, shared her thoughts on Supreme Court draft leak regarding Roe v. Wade. The draft penned by Justice Samuel Alito seeks to overturn the Roe v. Wade case of 1973 that granted the right to receive an abortion.
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Wheatley Fellow Hal Boyd Welcomes a New Age of Countercultural Christianity

May 19, 2022 09:00 AM
Hal Boyd voices his perspective on being a christian in modern times. Boyd’s post comes in response to a talk given to Ensign College by President Dallin H. Oaks of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Oak’s addressed students of Ensign College along with Elder Clark G. Gilbert, the church comissioner of education, on May 17th of 2022 in Salt Lake City.
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Wheatley Fellow Judge Thomas Griffith Shares His Perspective of the Supreme Court with Deseret News

May 19, 2022 09:00 AM
Former Federal Judge, and Wheatley Fellow, Thomas Griffith shares his thoughts on the critique that follow choices made by the Supreme Court. He argues for the justices are able to seperate the decision making with the way to which they entered the Supreme Court.
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