The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) is the public university system of the state of Utah. It includes each of the state's sixteen public institutions of higher education, including its eight technical colleges. History On March 21, 1969, the Utah State Legislature passed the Utah Higher Education Act of 1969, establishing the Utah System of Higher Education and its governing body, the State Board of Higher Education, to govern Utah's (at the time) nine institutions of higher learning, as well as administer the federal Higher Education Act of 1965. The board was established with fifteen members, each being a citizen of the state. The system's first commissioner and executive officer was G. Homer Durham, the former president of Arizona State University. In 1977, an amendment was passed to rename the board to the Utah State Board of Regents, as well as increase its membership to sixteen, with provisions for appointing of a student member. Subsequently, a 1981 amendment further increased this number to seventeen, with the seventeenth member being the Lieutenant Governor of Utah. Today, the board consists of eighteen Utah citizens, all of whom are appointed by the Governor of Utah. Two of those members are Student Board members, one from a degree-granting public institution of higher education and the other from a technical college. Each board member is appointed to six-year staggered term, with the exception of the student board members, who are appointed to one-year terms. The Board oversees the establishment of policies and procedures, executive appointments, master planning, budget and finance, proposals for legislation, develops governmental relationships, and performs administrative unit and program approval for higher education for the State of Utah. In 2020, the Utah System of Technical Colleges was subsumed into the USHE, with the Utah State Board of Regents being renamed to the Utah Board of Higher Education. Colleges and universities Public colleges and universities Community colleges Salt Lake Community College — Salt Lake City Snow College — Ephraim Technical colleges Bridgerland Technical College — Logan Davis Technical College — Kaysville Dixie Technical College — St. George Mountainland Technical College — Lehi Ogden–Weber Technical College — Ogden Southwest Technical College — Cedar City Tooele Technical College — Tooele Uintah Basin Technical College — Roosevelt References External links University of Utah Board of Regents Meeting Minutes, 1906-1969 at University of Utah Digital Library, Marriott Library Special Collections Public education in Utah 1969 establishments