what it is worth. If Dixie is primarily a technology school all along, then I think moving the University name to Utah Tech makes sense. But if this was simply to change the name for fear of offending other people then I think it was sad and probably not the best for the University. Looks like it has been called Dixie State since 1911.
Again, I am an outsider to this and don't have any background (as you can tell by my initial post to this thread).