BYU-Idaho names new school president as President Eyring will return to Provo after ‘outstanding’ tenure

REXBURG, Idaho — BYU-Idaho is getting a new president. Elder Alvin F. “Trip” Meredith III, 52, a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will replace President Henry J. Eyring, 59, on Aug. 1. Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles made the announcement Tuesday during a campus devotional. “I have known Elder Meredith since he was a teenager, and my admiration for him only grows as time passes,” Elder Christofferson said as he introduced the new president and his wife,...