Kevin J. Worthen

President of BYU

The end of all we do—both the intensive learning and the other activities that enhance the student's experience—is not just to prepare students for their first job or professional career, nor even to enjoy and appreciate their mortal experience more fully, which are the very worthwhile goals of many other universities. At the end of the day, we have a distinctive, even unique, end in mind. . . . Quoting Elder Oaks once again, 'Our reason for being is to be a university. But our reason for being a university is to encourage and prepare young men and women to rise to their full spiritual potential as sons and daughters of God.'

"The Why of the Y," Annual University Conference, August 2014