UNLV’s Boyd School of Law moved up three spots in U.S. News and World Report’s latest ranking of the nation’s best law schools.
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.
Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Thom Reilly on Tuesday announced the creation of a chief operating officer position at UNLV, nearly a week after university President Len Jessup said he was looking for a new job.
Las Vegas business leaders are coming to the defense of UNLV President Len Jessup amid some disapproval within the state university system over his practices and performance.
The future stability of UNLV is in question after the announcement that the university’s president might be on his way out the door.
Nine days after UNLV President Len Jessup received an evaluation that detailed “several weaknesses” in his job performance, he secured a donation for $14 million that required him to remain in his position through 2022.
UNLV President Len Jessup is looking for a new job, so one of the university’s biggest donors is rescinding a $14 million gift.
Students in Clark County joined young Americans around the country Wednesday by walking out of class to honor victims of last month’s mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Sixteen months and counting. That’s how long the College of Southern Nevada faculty has been working with the administration to reach a collective bargaining agreement.
UNLV is notifying 184 patients that they may have had dental implant work done with an instrument that had been used on other patients.
The Henderson campus of the College of Southern Nevada recently welcomed a new vice president/provost. It’s the first visible step in the college’s transition to a multicampus district model.
Regent Trevor Hayes said it’s “very troubling” that the board and state legislators were told three years ago that the academic building would cost about $100 million, and that the new estimate has risen to more than $230 million.
UNLV’s largest annual job fair for students pursuing careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics is set for Monday night.
“We’re talking about, how do you navigate stress in face-to-face encounters that relate to race? People get nervous when racial conversations come up,” Stevenson said. “They don’t know what to do. They get tongue-tied and end up making bad decisions in general because of it.”
Football, basketball and other sports teams often look beyond state borders to recruit talented athletes. But another competitive organization on UNLV’s campus didn’t have to travel far to find one of its top performers.
A major health scare forced Barbara Atkinson away from her duties for about four months last year, leaving a medical school three weeks shy of its opening date hanging in the balance.