The University of Nevada, Reno ranked in the top-50 graduate schools in the country for three separate programs. The undergraduate school remains in the third tier nationally, according to U.S. News and World Report’s recent releases of the 2009 editions of “America’s Best Colleges” and “America’s Best Grad Schools.”

Students will need to pay for tutoring if they turn to the Academic Skills Center this year.

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Student government leaders leave office and evaluate their terms.

Carson City – Students can expect to pay more starting fall 2009, after the Board of Regents approved a 5 percent tuition hike and a $5 per credit Associated Students of the University of Nevada fee at its meeting last week.

Faculty senate urges students to remind teachers to turn book orders in on time.

The Board of Regents will discuss a potential five percent tuition raise Thursday, Dan Klaich, Nevada System of Higher Education executive vice chancellor, said.

Fifteen of the top journalists and educators in the country traveled to the University Nevada, Reno last week for the second annual Journalism Week.

Raveca and Octavian Pintea ran an elderly care facility in California before coming to the University of Nevada, Reno.

They saved to pay for their first semester in the nursing program out of pocket. And while the business pulls in about $100,000 a year, profit margins are much less, Octavian Pintea, 27, said. As tuition and books soared to $4,000-plus for each of them, they looked for loans.

The University of Nevada, Reno Honors Program will move to the Manzanita Lake Room in the coming months, drawing some complaints from the student government over losing space students eat in.

Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said he is disappointed the University of Nevada, Reno withdrew its bid last year for a major presidential debate that would have taken place this fall.

For the second time in three years, University of Nevada, Reno professor Hussein S. Hussein is alleging someone purposely ruined his research.

Over the winter break, someone left open the door to a walk-in freezer in the Fleischmann Agriculture building. Several research samples thawed and possibly spoiled during the undetermined amount of time, Hussein said. He valued the damage at $300,000.

Hussein filed a police report Jan. 9, hours after his assistant, Laurie Bollinger, reported the damage. Police stopped their investigation about three weeks later, saying it is an administrative matter for the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources.

University officials will decide on a new provost this semester after the search committee narrowed the candidate pool down from 200 to four.

The four candidates – Ahmed T. Abdelal, Marsha G. Welsh, Marc A. Johnson and Suzanne Trager Ortega– will host individual open forums with both faculty and students, and meet personally with University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick.

For the University of Nevada, Reno, the potential cut would be about $32.7 million and could mean fewer class sections and part-time faculty next semester, university officials said.

Rogers said this is the first formal meeting Rogers has had with Gibbons since the governor requested the budget cuts in October.

Gibbons is asking state programs to prepare for the budget cuts after seeing low preliminary figures for tax and gaming revenue. To make up for the potential shortfall, Gibbons first asked for 5 percent cuts for the next two fiscal years. He upped the cut to 8 percent Nov. 20.

The proposed tuition increase that would take effect from 2009 to 2011 has been lowered from about 18 percent to about 10 percent, university officials said last week.

The plateau system, under which students would pay a standard fee for taking 12 to 18 credits, is still a part of the proposal that will go before the Board of Regents next spring.

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