Utah State and the Utah Legislature with USU President Brad Mortensen on Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM MST

We check in with Utah State University President Brad Mortensen. We get his reaction to the Utah Legislature’s audit of USU. We’ll talk about USU’s strategic reinvestment plan, mandated by the Legislature. We ask Mortensen about his top priorities in general and top takeaways from his recent tour of USU’s campuses across the state.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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