In the Department of Accounting, Kevin Kimball, the department chair, prepares students for the professional world by giving them opportunities through internships, networking and giving them a better understanding of the professional world that BYU-Idaho is preparing them for. In the fall of 2023, there was a 100% employment rate for students who graduated from the accounting department. When asked...

As a business professional, Skyler Poteat found collaboration and networking a useful skill to communicate better with people of all different backgrounds. Poteat is from North Carolina and met his wife at BYU-Idaho. He and his wife have been married for almost 15 years with four kids, residing in American Fork, Utah. Poteat graduated from BYU-I in 2013 with a...

Scroll Broadcasting is a new addition to the Scroll Newspaper that deals with the more visual side of news. They partner with Scroll to report on the relevant campus and local news."Students that would take the broadcasting class Comm 362 ... wanted to pursue careers ... in anchoring or sportscasting... (but) we didn't have anything," said Steven Vest, the media...

Alex Narayan misses Taco Bell. Germany doesn’t have Taco Bell “Every now and then you want something gross but yummy, (and) reminds you of home, and Taco Bell is what does that for me," Narayan said. Narayan's parents split when he was around 14 ,and he lived with his mom. On July 4, 2011, his father suddenly passed away while...

Around 20 students from the agricultural policy and trade class traveled to Boise on Feb. 21 through 22 and visited the Idaho State Legislature in Boise. Every winter semester, students learning about the process of agricultural policies and their importance, talk and meet with legislators, lobbyists and agricultural organizations."We've studied it out of a textbook," said Allan Walburger, associate dean...

Jason Reeder, a BYU-Idaho professor, became the Communication Department Chair in December 2023. Prior to this promotion, Reeder taught various classes in the department, including classes in the digital and social media emphasis such as Digital Media Analytics/Strategy and core classes such as Mass Media and Society. When Marc Skinner, the previous department chair, announced he would finish his career...

James Valentine loves to teach. This talent for teaching goes back to when he went to work at McDonald's, where he taught other employees the policies that make a fast-food restaurant work. This would carry over to his two-year proselyting mission for The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints in Bucharest, Romania. He worked as a carpet cleaner for...

Greg McKee is a professor of economics at BYU-Idaho who uses valuable software to give his students real world, hands-on experience with the economic status of countries and businesses across the world. This software is found through the Bloomberg terminals that the university owns. “The idea is that the Bloomberg software gets you access to a number of different types...

For the past two years, BYU-Idaho's Department of Accounting has removed International Accounting (ACCTG 440) from their options courses, out of which accounting students much choose two, and replaced it with Accounting and Audit Data Analytics (ACCTG 354) in order to set their accounting graduates up for success. The Department of Accounting focuses on developing students’ abilities in financial and...

Using a dashboard that shows where students within the College of Business and Communication find jobs, Matt Maroon, BYU-Idaho's department chair for the Department of Marketing, can help students know where to look for employment. The dashboard, created by a former student, shows the geographic location of where BYU-I alumni are employed with higher-volume areas indicated by a larger bubble....