A study exploring the viability of consolidating police services across Southern Nevada’s higher education institutions reveals a UNLV police department that’s rife with problems and unable to support such a merger.
Natalie Bruzda
Former higher education reporter
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.
A seat on the Nevada Board of Regents made vacant by now-Las Vegas Councilman Cedric Crear will be filled temporarily by North Las Vegas resident and MGM executive Anthony Williams.
Nevada State College is developing a program to boost the number of speech therapists with master’s degrees who work in Clark County schools.
According to a new report, the median student loan debt in Nevada is $14,218 — a debt load that’s greater than that of only two other states.
The College of Southern Nevada is the first school in the state to be recognized by two federal agencies for its work in cybersecurity education.
Jason Steffen, a member of the Kepler Science Team and an associate professor of physics and astronomy at UNLV, will participate in a new NASA mission to study planets and stars beyond Earth’s solar system.
Nevada and California are “brothers and sisters in more ways than other states can say,” and the Route 91 shooting cemented that notion even further, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Friday during a gun policy discussion at UNLV.
The educational landscape in Nevada experienced another shakeup Tuesday with the news that UNLV President Len Jessup is leaving the state’s largest university.
The announcement that embattled UNLV President Len Jessup will leave the school paints a clearer picture about the weeks of speculation, rumors, claims of misleading media reports and dialogue in the local Las Vegas business community.
After months of silence from UNLV on the temporary closure and then reopening of a maternal HIV clinic, the public was poised to receive some answers beginning Tuesday.
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream that his children, peers and mentors would have the opportunity for quality of life, access to education, and to be seen as human, said Micajah Daniels, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter UNLV.
Jeff Caraballo is one of 25 prisoners hoping education can give them new life after incarceration. They’re part of a pilot prison education program created in 2017 by the Nevada Legislature.
A 3-2 decision knocked Matthew Gomez and Jeffrey Horn out of the quarterfinals of the National Debate Tournament, a national championship of public policy debate that they hoped to win this year.
The story of Henrietta Lacks began almost 100 years ago, but professors at the College of Southern Nevada are working this year to revive and bring meaning to her story through a new campus-wide program.
It’s been three days since Thom Reilly announced the creation of a chief operating officer position for UNLV, and little is known about who will hold the job and what that person will do.
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