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Utah Tech president touts enrollment growth, asks for targeted faculty and adjunct funding
Summary
President Smead told the Higher Education Subcommittee Utah Tech has nearly doubled headcount over the past decade, met 2025 performance metrics, and is seeking FY27 support including roughly $500,000 for hiring five full-time faculty and continued adjunct compensation increases.
President Smead of Utah Tech University told the Higher Education Subcommittee that Utah Tech has grown rapidly — to about 13,000 students by 2025 — and emphasized the university’s polytechnic, workforce-aligned mission and efforts to rebuild community trust.
Smead said Utah Tech met both timely-completion and high-yield performance metrics in 2025 and highlighted retention gains since 2020 (a 4 percentage-point increase overall). He described targeted operational changes — redesigned advising, expanded orientation and implementation of degree-planning software —…
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