Utah Polytechnic State is dead — Dixie State trustees propose another new name for university

The Dixie State University trustees meet in St. George to discuss the proposed new name of the school on Tuesday. | Marc Weaver, KSL-TV

Utah Polytechnic State University is officially dead.

The Dixie State University board of trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward the name Utah Tech University to the Utah System of Higher Education to be analyzed before it is voted on by the Utah Legislature later this year.

The trustees also voted to recommend that the St. George campus of the university be named the Dixie campus if and when the university is renamed.

The decision came after a lengthy meeting between the Dixie State University trustees and Dixie State University Name Recommendation Committee Tuesday to hash out a name to move forward to state officials.

The committee voted on June 14 in favor of Utah Polytechnic State University with a nickname preference of Utah Tech to become the university’s new name. However, it was met with pushback almost immediately. One online petition against the selected name garnered close to 18,000 names between June 15 and Tuesday.

This story will be updated.

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