The University of Nevada, Reno has announced plans to build a new four-story, 100,000-square foot recreation and fitness center with an $8 million contribution from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation. It will open in 2016.
Education
Millions of dollars funneled to support English language learners, the state’s new Common Core standards and a new mandatory teacher evaluation system were what experts debated Monday during a community conversation about education.
A quarter of Nevada’s 604 public schools were downgraded by the Nevada Department of Education on Monday for students’ performances in the 2012-13 school year, but State Superintendent Dale Erquiaga asserted that it’s not because students are falling further behind.
Policy changes were implemented this fall to prevent UNLV students from putting off remedial courses until late in their college career.
Nevada System of Higher Education Regent Jack Schofield was honored Friday night by his alma mater, the University of Utah, with the College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday was at Cortez Elementary school, near Tonopah Avenue and Lamb Boulevard, to personally see if changes resulting from his Legislature-approved program to set aside $50 million for special attention to English-learning students is paying off.
SPARKS — School district officials say a loud sound that prompted officials to evacuate a Sparks high school was caused by a broken fire sprinkler head.
A top research university would have a major economic impact on the state, UNLV President Neal Smatresk said Thursday during his state of the university address. It would help improve health care and the quality of life for those living in the region and attract new industries to the area, he added.
Although the state has yet to take an official count, the Clark County School District anticipates having record-high enrollments that will tax their crowded schools.
Officials at the Washoe County School District in Northern Nevada are celebrating a jump in the 2013 high school graduation rate.
With Andre Agassi on hand, guitar great Carlos Santana made a donation of over 200 musical instruments to the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in a Tuesday afternoon presentation. The instruments were supplied by Hermes Music, LP Music and PRS guitars.
Don’t let the big price tags nix an application to Harvard or Yale. The average student receiving financial aid on those campuses paid about a quarter of the public sticker price and most graduates leave their ivy-covered quads with smaller debts than peers who attended less prestigious schools.
A small Kentucky liberal arts college lost out on one of the largest gifts in U.S. higher education history when the $250 million donation was withdrawn, school officials said Monday.
The Board of Regents, meeting in Elko, was told that the higher education system needs to invest a minimum of $60 million a year in deferred maintenance just to tread water, but is now spending only about a quarter of that amount.
A new campaign to encourage Nevada college students to take a full course load each semester to help them earn degrees more quickly was adopted Thursday by the Board of Regents.
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