Natalie Bruzda covered higher education for the Las Vegas Review-Journal between April 2016 and October 2018. She came to the Review-Journal after living, studying and working in southwestern Pennsylvania her entire life. She is an alumna of Waynesburg University and West Virginia University, and previously covered education and local government at newspapers in Punxsutawney and Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
She hopped in the elevator with the items on the way to her daughter’s dorm room. It was a conventional sight to see at UNLV on freshman move-in day, but the way Chang and her daughter passed the time on their road trip to campus might have been more unique than most.
It was day two of his tenure as the College of Southern Nevada’s new president. He toured the Charleston campus to share details about his life, learn about his students and colleagues, become acquainted with the campus and set goals for the state’s largest community college.
The attorney for a former College of Southern Nevada professor said all options are on the table after the state Board of Regents on Friday took no action regarding his employment appeal.
UNLV is moving forward with a new, two-pronged approach for construction of a medical education building.
The state’s largest employer and the Nevada System of Higher Education are officially coming together to open up the doors of college opportunity for more people.
Although the process to find a permanent leader has not begun, Regent J.T. Moran said that Sandoval would be an “overqualified asset” and a “tremendous value add” to NSHE.
The gross lewdness case against former College of Southern Nevada Professor Mark Peplowski was dismissed Wednesday, his attorney said.
UNLV hasn’t been much of a residence community, but the college has long hoped to tear off its commuter-campus label and have a more traditional feel.
Jessica Hill and Enes Djesevic, who grew up just a few miles apart in southwest Las Vegas, are among the 60 students in the second class at the UNLV School of Medicine.
The state Board of Regents on Friday approved the final piece of its 2019 legislative budget request that will go to the governor’s office next month.
U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen on Monday introduced a bill that would expand the existing Work Opportunity Tax Credit to ensure that all student veterans using their GI Bill benefits can take advantage of paid internships or part-time work while in school.
School officials ultimately interviewed 293 students, and continued their strategy of both considering and selecting students who are from Nevada, or those with ties to the state.
Contract talks between College of Southern Nevada faculty and the administration reached an impasse on Friday after nearly two years at the bargaining table. The process now moves to a fact finder.
A series of emails obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show how Maureen Schafer, former chief of staff for the medical school, hired Ernest Lupinacci as a branding and marketing consultant and skirted policies and procedures to pay him.
She began her role as acting president of the university on July 1 following the tumultuous departure of former President Len Jessup. Thom Reilly, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, said it could take a year before a new president is in place.
