\u201cBYU introduces plan to assist students in need:\u00a0The university will not accept CARES Act funding\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nBYU appreciates the support Congress has shown to institutions of higher education through the CARES Act. We are grateful for the concern that the Department of Education has for students and institutions who have been impacted by COVID-19. While funds were earmarked for BYU under the CARES Act, the university did not apply for this support, nor has it requested or received any of these funds.<\/span><\/p>\nBYU, like every private and public institution of higher education, has experienced and will continue to experience significant financial loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our students have also been affected. However, we believe we can assist our students without the CARES Act funds.<\/span><\/p>\nWe also are seeing the financial strain this pandemic has put on other institutions, some of which may not be able to open their doors to students again without government relief. For this reason, BYU has decided not to accept any part of the funds allocated to our university. We have notified the Department of Education of our decision so that it might reallocate resources to others.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
In other words, Brigham Young University is declining to accept the federal money that it could easily have collected \u2014 which amounted to a cool\u00a0$32,272,986.00 for the Provo campus alone.<\/p>\n
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Will apologies be forthcoming for the prior angry denunciations? \u00a0I don\u2019t expect to see any. \u00a0And I certainly don\u2019t expect that either the University or the Church will receive much actual credit<\/em> for this noble and unselfish (one might call it \u201cprincipled\u201d) decision. \u00a0For some people, being an indignant critic of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints means never having to say you\u2019re sorry. \u00a0They\u2019ll just move on to the next delicious outrage.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Indignant critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found renewed reason for indignant criticism of the Church when they learned that Brigham Young University in Provo, along with BYU-Hawaii and BYU-Idaho, was set to receive millions of dollars of COVID-19 relief from the federal government of the United States: \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11839,11800,1152,1149,11815,11812,11785,4735,1809,11830,11833,8031,9108,3460,11842,11788,11794,8037,11803,11791,11797,7971,482,11782,614,1815,7113,11821,11818,2664,788,55,1830,11809,4937,5460,11836,2454,11824,11827,11806],"class_list":["post-85247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aid","tag-avarice","tag-brigham-young-university","tag-byu","tag-california-institute-of-technology","tag-caltech","tag-cares-act","tag-church","tag-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-college","tag-colleges","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-critics","tag-department-of-education","tag-federal","tag-federal-aid","tag-funding","tag-funds","tag-government","tag-greed","tag-harvard","tag-hawaii","tag-idaho","tag-laie","tag-lds","tag-lds-church","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-mit","tag-money","tag-mormon","tag-mormonism","tag-notre-dame","tag-princeton","tag-provo","tag-stanford","tag-universities","tag-university","tag-university-of-southern-california","tag-usc","tag-yale"],"yoast_head":"\n
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