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Why I Returned to Teach at BYU

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Distinguished Wheatley Fellow Shima Baughman wrote an article for the Deseret News about returning to teach at BYU after 10 years at the University of Utah.

"BYU, like its peer religious institutions, embraces that it is different. It is an academically-rigorous research institution whose primary focus is educating the minds and hearts of the rising leaders of the church... Students come to BYU for mentorship in how to balance their discipleship alongside their intellectual reasoning, to study philosophies of Kant while considering the laws of Moses and the teachings of Jesus Christ."

Read the full article here.