By: Emerson Marcus
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Students from seven of Nevada’s eight higher education institutions passed legislation last week to send Nevada government candidates a pledge to protect education.
Truckee Meadows Community College is still waiting to ...
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Students from seven of Nevada’s eight higher education institutions passed legislation last week to send Nevada government candidates a pledge to protect education.
Truckee Meadows Community College is still waiting to pass the legislation.
The pledge is modeled after the Taxpayer Protection Plan which seeks a commitment from candidates to not raise taxes.
“We feel that if candidates [...]
Posted in Budget Crisis, News, News CP
Every semester, shortly before fees come due for the coming months’ classes, tuition ticks down by a substantial amount for more than 20,000 Nevada students receiving the Millennium Scholarship. Over the years, the scholarship has become an integral part of higher education in the state.
But that program’s future is in question. If it lasts beyond [...]
Tags: budget, cuts, ECONOMY, millenium, millenium scholarship
Posted in Budget Crisis, News
Budget cuts, curricular review, academic reductions — campus was abuzz with words like these during the 2009-10 school year. And since March, the vocabulary cast a shadow over university departments and programs, eventually closing eight areas of study.
Now in the wake of the storm, the University of Nevada, Reno is counting what it lost, what [...]
Posted in Budget Crisis, News
The NevadaSystem of Higher Education’s Board of Regents voted Thursday to cut two departments and five programs from the University of Nevada, Reno.
The vote was 11 to two in favor of the cuts, the two opposition votes coming from regents Cedric Crear and Mark Alden, both of Las Vegas.
Crear said the proposed non-academic cuts to [...]
Posted in Administration, Budget Crisis, Homepage Features, News
Nevada’s budget problems during the past few years translated into increasingly higher reductions for higher education, culminating in a $46 million cut this year that requires academic program eliminations at both the state’s universities.
Nevada’s problems are not unique, though. States across the nation have cut back higher education budgets after facing deficits in tax revenues [...]
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University administrators said they hope budget cuts for the University of Nevada, Reno will be decided by June, eliminating the need for a second round of curricular review proposals in the fall.
“We will be announcing our final recommendations for the (Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents) in the next week,” UNR President Milton [...]
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Pre-med and pre-law students are voicing concern about the loss of a valuable advising position from the university’s advising center.
Budget reductions will cut the University of Nevada, Reno’s pre-professional advising position as of May 1. The position, held by Patricia Wilson, guided pre-med and pre-law students in undergraduate studies toward acceptance at law and medical [...]
Posted in Academics, Administration, Breaking News, Budget CP, Budget Crisis, News
University leaders are exploring the possibility of retaining foreign language programs that were proposed to be cut last month as well as the retention of a scaled-down college of agriculture after recommendations from the faculty last week.
The University of Nevada, Reno’s faculty senate recommended the rejection of proposals for the elimination of the College of [...]
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