The university recognized spring and winter graduates during two virtual ceremonies Tuesday, which were aired on YouTube amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nevada State Public Charter School Authority Executive Director Rebecca Feiden said she doesn’t anticipate recommending changes to in-person learning guidance.
During a 10-hour meeting, the school board this week decided to switch to full-time distance learning for middle and high schools Dec. 2.
The university announced Tuesday it is suspending in-person events and lowering occupancy rates to 25 percent in a few campus buildings.
Superintendent Kristen McNeill is recommending fully distance learning beginning Dec. 7, with an anticipated return to in-person and hybrid models Jan. 19.
In April, the Board of Regents voted to make the S/U grading option available to students through the end of the spring 2020 semester and after final grades were issued.
The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents has approved revisions to a procedures and guidelines manual to implement a COVID-19-spurred furlough policy.
Many schools nationwide are relaxing at least some application requirements for the fall 2021 semester — most commonly, by not requiring scores from SAT and ACT college entrance exams.
Nevada State Public Charter School Authority’s board voted Friday to revise its distance learning mandate for schools in counties with elevated COVID-19 transmission.
The Nevada State Public Charter Authority will bring a recommendation to its board that would allow Clark County campuses to bring more students back for in-person instruction.
Classes with 35 or more students will be taught online, but smaller classes will be taught in a HyFlex format in which students attend class in person on alternate days.
The university made the announcement Friday amid quickly-growing COVID-19 case numbers among students. The school will also cancel spring break.
New UNR President Brian Sandoval made the announcement Tuesday on the university’s website. He also announced UNR is closing its fitness center for the rest of the semester.
The university has reported 304 cases since the fall semester began Aug. 24, according to its case tracking website. University officials say off-campus parties are still a problem.
Las Vegas learning strategist Juliana Urtubey was named Wednesday as the 2021 Nevada Teacher of the Year during a virtual ceremony.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
A weak trough passing north of Las Vegas will bring some gusty winds as the only blemish on a Memorial Day weekend forecast, says the National Weather Service.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.