“I see a university that is intended to be not only ‘a school in Zion’ but a Zion university—a place where people from many nations learn together in purity, peace, unity, and love. May this school savor so strongly and so sweetly of Zion that it creates an appetite in its graduates to build Zion everywhere.”

President John S. Tanner

President of Brigham Young University–Hawaii

Inauguration Address, November 10, 2015