The Center for Constitutional Studies sponsored a study-abroad course at Oxford University July 29–August 19, 2024. Students enrolled in either a Foundations of Constitutionalism or Civic Thought and Leadership class.

The Master's of Constitutional Government, Civics & Law program welcomed its first-ever cohort to UVU campus June 24, 2024, for two weeks of classes before transitioning to distance-learning classes for the 2024–2025 school year.

CCS held its annual Constitutional Literacy Institute for 49 K–12 teachers from Utah, Idaho, and Texas June 24–28, 2024. Teachers received instruction on the Founding and the Constitution to better teach those principles to students.

CCS hosted and co-sponsored the Utah 2024 MyImpact Challenge June 14, 2024. Middle- and high-schoolers came to share projects they had developed in response to community needs and the actions they took to meet those needs.

Through a partnership with the Center for Constitutional Studies and We the People, Utah third-grade teachers came to UVU campus for training and resources to teach the new state civics core curriculum June 4, 2024.

Hyrum Lewis, professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University–Idaho, led a lyceum discussion May 30, 2024, with students and staff.

CCS held a Learners with Littles event May 21, 2024. Parents and children came to talk about women of the American Revolution, culture wars in today's society, and civil discourse.

The Center for Constitutional Studies hosted a book club May 16, 2024, to discuss Revolutionary Mothers. Eleesha Tucker moderated the discussion with panelists Leah Ward, Pam Su'a, Grace Yeager, and Shante Ruiz Zundel. 

On April 19, 2024, CCS hosted a Constitutional Literacy Institute orientation dinner for elementary and K–12 teachers in Utah and other states in preparation for the CLI summer course to be held June 24–28 on UVU campus.

CCS held a Learners with Littles event April 16, 2024. Parents and children came to talk about how to interpret the Founding with the changes brought about by the Civil War.

Partnering with the Center for the Study of Ethics and the UVU Provost's office, CCS hosted its first Civic Conversation Series April 8, 2024, where Jennifer Ruth and Keith Whittington discussed the role of universities in the public square. 

The American Heritage Speaker Series welcomed Dr. Joshua Dunn, executive director of the Institute of American Civics in the Baker School of Public Policy at the University of Tennessee for a lecture and lyceum March 25, 2024. 

First Amendment Conference, "Some Assembly Required," held March 20, 2024, focused in the freedoms of assembly and association specified or implied in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.

CCS held a Learners with Littles event March 5, 2024. Parents and children came to talk about the making of our U.S. Constitution.

The Center for Constitutional Studies hosted a book club Feb. 22, 2024, to discuss The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America. Co-author Dr. Verlan Lewis was on hand to offer his perspective. 

The Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy and the Center for Constitutional Studies at UVU hosted former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Utah Senator Mike Lee Feb. 20, 2024, for a discussion of current issues. 

Matthew Brogdon, senior director of UVU's Center for Constitutional Studies, led a lyceum discussion Feb. 16, 2024, with students and staff on Abraham Lincoln, one of the most important interpreters of the Constitution in our history.

Student researchers and staff from the Center for Constitutional Studies took part in UVU's Day on the Hill at the Utah State Capitol Feb. 12, 2024, where CCS was highlights in both chambers of the legislature.

CCS held its first Learners with Littles for parents and children Feb. 6, 2024. The event brought parents to UVU campus with their little ones to talk about the American Revolution and to do craft activities related to the birth of our republic.

We the People and Utah Law-Related Education, with support from CCS, hosted the 2024 Citizen and the Constitution high-school competition Feb. 2, 2024. Skyview and Green Canyon High Schools took top honors.

The Center for Constitutional Studies hosted teacher training Jan. 18, 2024, provided by We the People and Utah Law-Related Education to better prepare K-12 teachers with resources to teach civics to students.

The Center for Constitutional Studies hosted its first-ever book club Nov. 30, 2023  The Words That Made Us by Akhil Reed Amar was the topic of discussion and the influence of state constitutions on the federal constitution.

Kal Munis, political science professor at UVU, spoke at CCS’s lyceum for students and staff Nov. 14. He addressed the topic of rural attitudes toward public-land management in the United States and particularly in the western states.

Drs. Andy Bibby and Robert Burton, of the Center for Constitutional Studies at UVU hosted the Schools of Democracy: American Federalism and Civic-Education workshop Nov. 3, 2023.

Political philosopher Harvey Mansfield lectured at Utah Valley University Oct. 25 on the American Presidency. "A course on the American presidency is a course on human life," he said.

Sharon McMahon, known as “America’s government teacher,” attended the fall civics-educator conference Oct. 10 and gave the keynote address before a crowd of nearly 6,000 at the UCCU Center. 

Parents and teachers gathered Oct. 10, 2023, at UVU at the fall civics-educator conference to discuss collaboration in and resources for learning and teaching civics to the rising generation in the home.

Harvard scholar Akhil Amar, author of The Words That Made Us: American's Constitutional Conversation, 1760–1840, visited UVU campus as a guest of the Center for Constitutional Studies Sept. 26, 2023.

UVU President Astrid Tuminez interviewed Dr. Matthew Brogdon, senior director of CCS, and other guests on her Talk with Tuminez program  Sept. 20, 2023.

CCS held its annual Constitution Day conference Sept. 14–15, 2023: “Framing the Frontier: The Making of Western-State Constitutions.” Dicussion centered around elections, suffrage, and religion in wester-state constitutions.

Dr. Steven Pittz, of the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, lectured at UVU and led a discussion in CCS's quarterly lyceum Aug. 30, 2023, on free spirits in a democratic age and the importance of thinking independently.

In partnership with the Sutherland Institute, CCS hosted Representative John Curtis (R–Utah) from the Fourth Congressional District Aug. 22, 2023.

K–12 teachers met on UVU campus Aug. 3, 2023, to receive training from representatives of We the People and members of the Civic Thought & Leadership team of the Center for Constitutional Studies.

UVU students attended two study-abroad courses at Oxford University in July–August 2023. Two separate courses focus on Foundations of American Constitutionalism and Civic Thought and Leadership, respectively.

CCS held its annual Constitutional Literacy Institute June 26–30, 2023, on UVU campus. K–12 teachers received training in constitutional principles and resources that can have an immediate impact in the classroom.

CCS hosted and co-sponsored the Utah 2023 MyImpact Challenge June 14, 2023. Middle- and high-schoolers came to share projects they had developed in response to community needs and the actions they took to meet those needs.

CCS associate director Andy Bibby and senior researcher Sam Hill went to the Republic of Uganda in May 2023 to teach and discuss the concept of federalism with current and former government leaders

The Rev. Dr. Andrew Teal, chaplain for Pembroke College, Oxford, visited the Center for Constitutional Studies April 25,  2023, with his family.

On April 14, 2023, CCS hosted a Constitutional Literacy Institute orientation dinner for elementary and K–12 teachers in Utah and other states in preparation for the CLI summer course to be held June 26–30 on UVU campus.

The Center for Constitutional Studies hosts a monthly lyceum for UVU student–employees of the Center and others to allow scholars and constitutional experts to present on or lead a discussion of a current topic that has constitutional implications for society.

UVU students who work as Wood Research Assistants in CCS traveled to Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin in March 2023. As part of the 50 in 10 project, they located and digitized documents from those respective state constitutional conventions.

Utah Valley University's Center for Constitutional Studies hosted Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dmitry Muratov Feb. 24, 2023, in a question-answer forum with UVU President Astrid S. Tuminez.

CCS held its annual First Amendment Conference Feb. 23, 2023. Entitled “Tied in a Single Garment of Destiny": The Founders, Natural Rights, and Religious Liberty Today,” the conference was keynoted by Dr. Jacqueline Rivers, of the Seymour Institute.

Students from several junior-high and middle schools in Utah and Salt Lake Counties took part in the annual 'We the People' debate competition Feb. 10, 2023, hosted by the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University.

The CCS team took part in UVU’s Day on the Hill Feb. 8, 2023. Faculty, staff, and students observed sessions, met members of the Utah Legislature’s house and Senate, and staffed an information booth. CCS was also formally recognized in the House and Senate chambers.

The CTLI team provided mobile training for K–12 teachers in Springville (November 2022), Manti (December 2022), and Blanding (January 2023), following the mandate from HB 327 (2021) to “facilitate nonpartisan political discussion and provide civic education and research.”

Nearly 100 K–12 teachers from throughout Utah met for the CCS-sponsored Fall 2022 Civics Educator Conference Oct. 27, 2022, entitled Bridging and Bonding: The Role of Teachers in Cultivating Citizenship.

Arthur Brooks, social scientist and author, gave the keynote address at the CCS Civics Educator Conference Oct. 27, 2022. “We have a contempt epidemic in this country. We can fix it if we get our communication right. Go looking for contempt. Run toward it and express love.“

Dr. Andrew Bibby, center, associate director of CCS and director of the Federalism Index Project, presented at the African Student Refugee Leadership Conference Oct. 6–8, 2022. Joseph Ssemwogerere, left, former prime minister of Buganda, spoke on Uganda’s challenges.