Sep 10, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Christ-centered teaching, inspired learning outcomes, and eternal aims shape student growth, faith, academic success, and lifelong purpose…
Justin CollingsGuest
We're all intimately familiar with President Reese's charge for us to become the Christ-centered, prophetically directed University of Prophecy.
Our task is to become the university that prophets have foretold, the BYU of prophecy and promise.
To that end, President Reese has outlined seven programmatic initiatives which together constitute our university's strategic plan.
The first of these seven initiatives, strengthening the student experience, comes first for a reason.
As President Worthen once noted, our mission statement mentions students seven times, faculty twice, and administrators only once.
Of the many remarkable attributes of this incomparable faculty, none is so salient to me as your singular devotion to our students, to their academic success, to their flourishing in all facets of an increasingly abundant life, to their Christ-centered character development, to their faith and testimony, and to their quest for perfection and eternal life.
I salute all of you for your consecrated labors in our common cause, for your manifest love for the Savior, for this school, and for our students.
Part of my role, as I see it, is to be a cheerleader and a champion of our faculty toward many constituencies, including the university's most significant donors and when invited to senior leaders of the church.
Some have warned me, Aaron-like, that my joy in our faculty carries me away unto boasting.
My response, like Ammon's, is that I do not boast of myself, but I will boast about our faculty.
I want you to know that I love you and that I have enormous confidence in you.
In saying that, I speak on behalf of the entire university administration and, if I may be so bold, on behalf of those to whom we report.
We're all intimately familiar with President Reese's charge for us to become the Christ-centered, prophetically directed University of Prophecy.
Our task is to become the university that prophets have foretold, the BYU of prophecy and promise.
To that end, President Reese has outlined seven programmatic initiatives which together constitute our university's strategic plan.
The first of these seven initiatives, strengthening the student experience, comes first for a reason.
As President Worthen once noted, our mission statement mentions students seven times, faculty twice, and administrators only once.
Of the many remarkable attributes of this incomparable faculty, none is so salient to me as your singular devotion to our students, to their academic success, to their flourishing in all facets of an increasingly abundant life, to their Christ-centered character development, to their faith and testimony, and to their quest for perfection and eternal life.
I salute all of you for your consecrated labors in our common cause, for your manifest love for the Savior, for this school, and for our students.
Part of my role, as I see it, is to be a cheerleader and a champion of our faculty toward many constituencies, including the university's most significant donors and when invited to senior leaders of the church.
Some have warned me, Aaron-like, that my joy in our faculty carries me away unto boasting.
My response, like Ammon's, is that I do not boast of myself, but I will boast about our faculty.
I want you to know that I love you and that I have enormous confidence in you.
In saying that, I speak on behalf of the entire university administration and, if I may be so bold, on behalf of those to whom we report.
Every episode on Radar is fully transcribed, speaker-labeled, and rich with metadata. Here is a taste of this one. Try Radar for free to see the rest.
3 of 7
DEW Credits Cost Millions
BYU’s grading system hides a costly problem
Race Against Ignorance
Education works better when students race ignorance
One F Equals Two Bs
One grading rule may reward failing students
+4 more clips · 6 min 43 sec of audio in all
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
All 7 clips — the highlight moments, each cut as its own audio, with a title and a speaker
All 10 segments — the transcript broken into labeled sections, every ad read marked
All 23 topics — jump to every other episode discussing the same subject
Every related episode — other shows Radar links to this one
No account is needed to search Radar.
