The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents is scheduled to consider the chancellor search committee’s recommendation and possibly take action Thursday.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
Email: jgreener@reviewjournal.com
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Julie joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in July 2019 as a reporter for The View, covering the southwest/Henderson area. She grew up in southern California, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. She worked as an education and health reporter at the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho for eight years. Before that, she was an education and county government reporter for two years at the Elko Daily Free Press in Elko, Nev.
UNR’s Nevada Faculty Alliance chapter released a statement opposing a plan to alternate which students attend large lecture classes in person during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents voted Friday to approve the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience.
The Village at Nevada State College — an approximately $33 million project — is on NSC’s Henderson campus. The college is accepting student applications for the 342-bed housing facility.
Nevada Action for School Options is a partner in a nationwide effort — The National Summer School Initiative — to help combat learning loss due to COVID-19 school closures and summer break.
Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents approved a few agenda items Thursday to recognize Lieberman, who died April 3 at age 58 while in office.
The grant to the Nevada System of Higher Education is from Los Angeles-based ECMC Foundation. Most of it will be distributed to Nevada public colleges and universities through subgrants.
Partial election results released Wednesday show Byron Brooks and Patrick Boylan leading the way in a pair of Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents races.
The finalists are Arthur Ellis, Richard Larson, Anthony Munroe and Melody Rose. They’ll participate in virtual public forums next week.
There were no major travel problems late Sunday afternoon at McCarran International Airport or area highways heading out of Las Vegas.
For a second consecutive day, a peaceful Las Vegas demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody turned confrontational and chaotic.
Las Vegas police responded at 4:03 p.m. Saturday to the collision that left a 65-year-old pedestrian dead near Owens Avenue and Main Street. The driver fled on foot.
Some private schools are allowing deferred payments or offering more financial assistance, but they aren’t refunding tuition for the time when kids were home with parents.
Jack Rico earned his degrees from Fullerton College, a community college in Southern California, becoming the youngest graduate in the school’s history.
UNLV will notify students by early July via the MyUNLV online portal which classes will be offered in-person or remotely, the university said Thursday.
