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Idaho launched Pathway (also called PathwayConnect) — a one-year, reduced-cost, online program offered to students wherever they lived, with no need to ever come to a university campus. Pathway grew rapidly, from serving 50 students in the United States in 2009 to serving more than 14,000 in over 60 countries in 2016.

In 2017, Pathway was forever changed when the First Presidency of the Church announced the creation of a new church-wide higher education organization to be called BYU-Pathway Worldwide. At the time of the change, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, “This organization will have responsibility for all online certificates and degree programs offered within the Church Educational System.”

The Lord commands us to “seek learning, even by study and also by faith” (D&C 88:118). President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) taught: “We believe in education. This Church encourages education. There is incumbent upon every member of this Church, as a mandate from the Lord, to get all the education you can get. . . There is incumbent upon the Latter-day Saints a dictum from the Lord Himself to educate our minds and our hands.”