The Rebel Climate Action Plan details what Las Vegas’ public university is doing to become net zero in carbon emissions by its 100th birthday.
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Beam Hall — closed to the public since three professors were shot and killed Dec. 6 — reopened with new security features and armed officers.
UNLV said it will reduce its operating budgets by 25 percent and implement a two-month hiring freeze to help alleviate a budget shortfall for fiscal year 2025.
UNLV President Keith Whitfield Sunday denied reports that he was considering releasing details about the university’s assets invested in firms with ties to Israel and divesting from them.
The four-hour event featured sessions on applying for federal student loans, college admission and strategies for completing resumes and searching for jobs.
Though current student scholarships are safe, The Engelstad Foundation’s CEO has severed ties with the university over squabbles with administration.
Students for Justice in Palestine claim members ended a days-long hunger strike “due to the administration’s willingness to meet demands.”
A Jewish Affinity Group formed at UNLV after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel hopes to make interactions more “educational” than the recent protest on campus.
UNLV is proposing to enter into a 99-year ground lease for 42 acres of university-owned land near the Strip that would generate over a billion of dollars of revenue.
The two-day event brought Nevada’s Indigenous people to the forefront, allowing Las Vegans to gain an appreciation for those who inhabited the land before them.
The start of in-person classes marked the return to a new normal for UNLV after a gunman killed three professors and wounded a fourth last month.
UNLV leadership held its first in-person, all-hands meeting with staff and faculty since the December shooting that left three professors dead.
College and university faculty members across the state called for emergency campus security upgrades in response to the fatal UNLV shooting.
A gunman killed three people and seriously injured a fourth at UNLV’s campus. The shooting began inside Beam Hall, which houses the Lee Business School.
There are multiple mental health resources available for people affected by the UNLV shooting in English and Spanish.