The search committee for UNLV’s president met for the first time Friday with a community advisory panel and the search firm to approve the job profile and set a timetable.
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The board held a series of forums Wednesday and Thursday to gauge public opinion on the search for a new chancellor to succeed Thom Reilly when his contract expires next year.
The “multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer” measures concentrations of isotopes to offer more precise measures of time than previously possible.
Students across the Las Vegas Valley walked out of classes Friday to demand action to end climate change and preserve the world for their futures.
The new scheme could significantly drop compensation levels for new hires and make it harder to retain current professors, opponents say.
A recent survey found that almost half the student population at the college’s three campuses reported being unable to purchase food at times.
A state board on Wednesday gave the school’s new owners until February to gather documents necessary to renew its license to operate.
The housing is needed to accommodate the school’s growing student population, President Bart Patterson said in his “State of the College” address on Tuesday.
The career college may lose its license to operate in Nevada after a report to the Commission on Postsecondary Education recommended denying its renewal request.
The Las Vegas squad captured the national competition sponsored by the Institute of Management Accounts by developing a business plan for a fictional empanada eatery.
Cannon Junior High School students were bused Wednesday morning to the Del Sol Academy of the Performing Arts amid a power outage that was expected to last several hours.
The flyers were attributed to the American Identity Movement, classified as a white supremacist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.
Once known as vet techs, students are now on a path to becoming veterinary nurses as the College of Southern Nevada joins other institutions to define and expand the profession.
The Tuition+ financial aid program, which will roll out in fall 2020, will help cover the gaps left by a Pell Grant for tuition, fees and books.
Bite-size academic degrees are slowly making their way to Southern Nevada, offering students a way to level up professionally in a relatively short time.
