Two UNLV undergraduate teams won top prizes and a total of $35,000 in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition.
Education
The campus is quiet, deserted, as you would expect of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on an eventless Friday evening.
He spoke about everything from Nevada jobs to the National Guard, but Gov. Brian Sandoval glossed over the main subject of his Wednesday speech — education.
UNLV officials on Tuesday were optimistic about a long-delayed project to build a new home for the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration after it was heard by a joint committee in Carson City without questions or concerns.
UNLV on Tuesday announced that Kim Metcalf will become the new College of Education dean.
UNLV officials hope to move forward with a long-delayed project — building a new home for the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration.
Start next school year with a permanent teacher in every classroom.
Touro University senior provost and CEO Michael Harter, who helped found the school in 2004, recently announced his impending retirement.
Interim Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky will immediately receive a 44 percent raise in salary and benefits, bringing his total package to $212,300 for filling in while the Clark County School Board looks for a permanent replacement.
Up to 150 new Teach for America teachers will be hired by Clark County School District for a period of two years at a cost of $600,000 in addition to the teachers’ salaries.
It was cause for celebration when Clark County School District officials claimed that its graduation rate jumped to
66 percent last summer.
After an eight-month battle with residents of its Henderson neighborhood, New Song Lutheran Church received approval Tuesday to add first-graders to its school.
Members of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada on Monday testified before lawmakers in support of a proposal that would add a student to the Board of Regents.
A federal court of appeals upheld a 2010 civil judgment against John Vellardita, now executive director of the Clark County teachers union, and other leaders of his former union in Oakland, Calif., ordering them to pay $1.5 million in damages to the parent organization of United Healthcare Workers-West.
UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center needs renovations, and university officials are moving to get funding approved to bring it up to code, officials said Friday.