It might not have the bricks and mortar of an esteemed university building, but Western Governors University has a talking owl as its mascot, and it’s turning heads in the direction of online schooling.
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.
Construction on the site of the complex ended in September with the project 73 percent complete because of disputes that arose between Midby, the project’s developer, and its former general contractor, the Korte Company.
The Nevada System of Higher Education has hired a firm to find a new leader for the College of Southern Nevada.
At a time when the state’s colleges are inwardly focused on their own strategic growth, they’re also being asked to look beyond Nevada’s borders for ways to make gains in student success.
Scrawled above the gleaming, stainless-steel kitchen in chalkboard-like print, “authenticity” and “integrity” are the first two words Eat Summerlin patrons see.
In about three months, the parking lot in the center of the Charleston campus of the College of Southern Nevada will be dug up to make way for something new.
Institutions of higher education are in the business of generating ideas. But are all ideas welcome on college campuses today? UNLV hosted a symposium on the topic Tuesday at the university’s Boyd School of Law.
But raising $250 million is made more difficult with a non-existent pool of alumni. For example, only 4 percent of the money brought in by the foundation in fiscal year 2017 came from alumni, with the largest amount — 34 percent — coming from estates and trusts.
Dr. Kristen Averyt is the first female president of the Desert Research Institute. She boasts an educational background in marine science and chemistry.
Gomez, a senior political science major at UNLV, is a member of the university’s 11-year-old debate squad. The team is looking to make history this year.
School presidents presented their 2020-2021 budget wish list items to the state Board of Regents last week, with requests ranging from an $8 million water tank at Nevada State College, to $3.8 million in planning funds to relocate Desert Research Institute’s anchor facility to Henderson.
The College of Southern Nevada is in “such a good place” compared to 10 years ago, and many of the thanks should go to President Michael Richards, those who worked with him closely say.
Students in the Nevada System of Higher Education probably will face fee hikes in 2019 and 2020.
Becerra was one of 11 women who attended the year’s first Girls on Guard class at UNLV police headquarters. It’s the first class Sgt. Denise Lutey has held since the student government approved nearly $50,000 to expand programming.
But regaining a sense of normalcy has been made even more difficult recently after the College of Southern Nevada student learned that she lost her Millennium Scholarship.