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On September 7, 2007, Dixie State College Board of Trustees members announced that Dixie State College of Utah would petition the University of Utah to become the University of Utah—St. George.[4] The proposal was approved by the Dixie State College Board of Trustees on October 7, 2007, and by the University of Utah Board of Trustees on October 14, 2007. The two institutions formed a task force to define the parameters of an enhanced affiliation, to be approved by both Trustee boards, the Utah State Board of Regents, and the Utah State Legislature. The process was expected to be complete in 2009.
Due to local concerns[5] and the refusal to abandon the "Dixie" name and "Rebel" mascot, the idea of merging Dixie State College into the University of Utah was abandoned.
From 2008 to 2010 Dixie experienced explosive growth "with...40% enrollment growth between 2008 and 2010 and an expanded regional university mission" under the direction of Brandon Boulter (Director of Admissions), David Roos (Executive Director), Patrick Moody (Ambassador Advisor), and the addition of a number of readily needed four year degree programs.[6]
In 2011 a bill was drafted for the review of the Utah State Legislature and the Utah State Governor to support Dixie State College's transition to university status.[7]
In 2012 and 2013, the institution became a focus of local and national media attention concerning the name for the institution as a university.[8] The institution's close association with the Confederate South documented in the school yearbook, The Confederate,[9] from the 1950s through 1993 was scrutinized, including students appearing on parade floats and at school activities in blackface in the 1960s (during the Civil Rights Movement) through 1993 and the proud display of the Confederate flag at many school events. The school also named student dorms after plantations.[10] The school adopted the Confederate imagery in 1956 with the mascot "Rodney Rebel" and displayed a large statue of a Confederate soldier on campus through 2012. The statue was removed in December, 2012, after students, faculty and community members protested the name "Dixie" in front of the statue in December, 2012, bringing attention to the association with the Confederate South.[11]
The institution contracted with a local advertising firm, Sorenson Advertising, to investigate names for the institution as a university [12] and found that alumni overwhelmingly supported the name "Dixie" while less than half of faculty/staff supported the name "Dixie." The report was highly criticized for its methodology. At one point, the institution publicly considered an apology for the association with the Confederacy and "other controversial imagery",[13] but in the end the institution denied any knowledge of racist behavior stating, "No one on this board or in this administration is aware of any racial discrimination in our past.".[14] Sorenson Advertising recommended a name other than "Dixie" if the school wanted to expand recruitment beyond the local community. The same day the Trustees voted in favor of the name "Dixie" the school president said he hoped "to attract an increasing number of international and out-of-state students who pay higher tuition than in-state students".[15] The NAACP also spoke out against the name "Dixie".[16]
In 2013 the Legislature changed the status of the institution from a college to a university and named it Dixie State University. Governor Gary Herbert signed the bill into law in a ceremony on campus, calling the new university into existence on February 16, 2013. Pres. Stephen Nadauld of Dixie State University and others recognized this step as the fulfillment of the dream of the original Latter-Day Saint pioneers of the area to have a university for their communities in the area.
The primary campus of Dixie State University is located in St. George, Utah, with the Hurricane Education Center campus extension located in Hurricane, Utah.