BYU Education Week celebrates 100 years of instruction and learning

People attending BYU Education Week walk the sidewalks of BYU’s campus after listening to Elder Richard G. Scott at the Marriott Center in 2007.

Folks attending BYU Schooling Week stroll the sidewalks of BYU’s campus after listening to Elder Richard G. Scott on the Marriott Heart in 2007. This yr BYU Schooling Week is celebrating 100 years.

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Crowds come and go to classes at BYU’s Campus Education Week on Aug. 16, 2005.

Crowds come and go to lessons at BYU’s Campus Schooling Week on Aug. 16, 2005. BYU Schooling Week is celebrating its one centesimal anniversary this yr.

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Participants attend a class at BYU Education Week.

Individuals at BYU’s Schooling Week attend a category given by Daniel C. Peterson a professor of Islamic Research and Arabic within the Division of Asian and Close to Jap Languages at Brigham Younger College. BYU Schooling Week is celebrating its one centesimal anniversary this yr.

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A student takes notes during a BYU Education Week devotional.

Emma Westbrook (middle) writes down notes throughout a BYU Schooling Week devotional in 2009. BYU Schooling Week is celebrating its one centesimal anniversary this yr.

Stuart Johnson, Deseret Information

BYU Schooling Week is celebrating a particular milestone this yr — 100 years of offering academic experiences for lifelong learners at Brigham Younger College’s Provo campus.

The five-day occasion, scheduled for Aug. 15-19, will characteristic near 1,000 lessons taught by a whole bunch of presenters on a variety of subjects, together with classes taught by church leaders and a devotional with a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Crowds come and go to classes at BYU’s Campus Education Week on Aug. 16, 2005.

Crowds come and go to lessons at BYU’s Campus Schooling Week on Aug. 16, 2005. BYU Schooling Week is celebrating its one centesimal anniversary this yr.

Stuart Johnson, Deseret Information

The theme for 2022 BYU Schooling Week is “Of Issues Each in Heaven and within the Earth,” from Latter-day Saint scripture’s Doctrine and Covenants, part 88, verse 79.

This yr’s theme was chosen to commemorate this system’s one centesimal anniversary and the range of studying that has been accessible by means of the years, organizers wrote within the 2022 BYU Schooling Week information.

“Schooling Week shows proceed to be designed for youth and adults, ladies and men, single and married people, with lessons accessible in an awesome selection — gospel ideas, the humanities, household and marriage relationships, finance, private improvement, expertise, well being and plenty of others,” the information stated. “You will have a possibility to be taught a lot that can encourage, encourage, strengthen and rejuvenate. We're assured that as you attend this system and profit from the sources and ambiance of Brigham Younger College, you should have a rewarding and uplifting expertise.”

Registration info is discovered at educationweek.byu.edu.

Participants attend a class at BYU Education Week.

Individuals at BYU’s Schooling Week attend a category given by Daniel C. Peterson a professor of Islamic Research and Arabic within the Division of Asian and Close to Jap Languages at Brigham Younger College. BYU Schooling Week is celebrating its one centesimal anniversary this yr.

Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information

BYU Schooling Week highlights, occasions for 2022

A student takes notes during a BYU Education Week devotional.

Emma Westbrook (middle) writes down notes throughout a BYU Schooling Week devotional in 2009. BYU Schooling Week is celebrating its one centesimal anniversary this yr.

Stuart Johnson, Deseret Information

Timeline of BYU Schooling Week

  • BYU Schooling Week started as “Management Week” in January 1922 with the aim of offering religious and tutorial coaching to leaders in numerous strains of group and church management.
  • Organizers started charging members a $1 participation payment in 1955.
  • Courses for youth, ages 14-18, started in 1958.
  • Management Week continued on an annual foundation till 1962, aside from 1942-47 and 1949.
  • This system’s identify was modified to Schooling Week in 1963 on account of a shift within the nature of programs provided and the flexibility of the general public to attend by that point.
  • Within the spring of 1972, Schooling Week packages had been positioned underneath the sponsorship of the Division of Persevering with Schooling within the Church Instructional System.
  • Schooling Week was moved to August in 1973 to accommodate a brand new semester calendar for BYU.
  • Sponsorship for Schooling Week was transferred to BYU’s Division of Persevering with Schooling in April 2008.
  • Through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Schooling Week was revamped to create a web-based format.
  • In recent times, hundreds from everywhere in the United States and plenty of overseas international locations have flocked to BYU campus to attend Schooling Week.

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