Chapter 16Getting Started
There was no question that David Bednar was the right man for the job of turning Ricks College into BYU-Idaho. Psychologically, the new university president and his colleagues were working from a standing start. However, they had already built the essential foundation for the unique four-year university that Hinckley envisioned. The three-track system of admissions necessary to fill the spring and summer terms and operate year-round was already under development. So was much, though not all, of the necessary building program.
Fulfilling some of the more radical mandates of the new university's strategy, such as eschewing graduate programs and faculty rank, was simply a matter of resisting the bigger-and-better tendency. ...
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