The university will launch a new pilot program where instructors will teach in-person and remote students simultaneously for some classes.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Former Education Reporter
The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents is slated to vote June 10 on whether to appoint Vickie Shields as acting president for part of the summer.
Sara Gordon will lead the Boyd School of Law on an interim basis starting July 1. In late April, UNLV announced current law school Dean Dan Hamilton will leave June 30.
Graduating high school seniors describe the losses and positives of a tumultuous educational year like no other.
The Class of 2021 has an important story to tell. The Review-Journal is giving some of this year’s finest graduates a place to tell it.
The 20 winners for the awards, presented by The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, will be recognized during a television special airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on Vegas PBS.
Individual schools have the option of changing their policy, but the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority recommends continuing to require all students to wear a mask.
Danica Hays will become dean on July 1 after filling the job on an interim basis since August 2020. She’ll replace Kim Metcalf, who stepped down.
The university made the announcement Thursday, citing new guidance from the Nevada System of Higher Education. But the higher education system hasn’t yet announced any change.
For the second time in two years, a move to restore and expand school health centers has been removed from the Clark County School Board’s agenda without explanation.
Fifty students from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV celebrated their graduation Friday at the university’s Thomas & Mack Center.
In a course reversal, the Nevada System of Higher Education announced Thursday it is planning to mandate vaccination, with “some limited exceptions” and several contingencies.
About 36 percent of graduates are staying in Nevada for their residencies. The medical school is hoping to build that pipeline to address the state’s physician shortage.
The private university in Henderson announced the requirement Tuesday in a campuswide email as it plans to resume full on-campus operations this summer.
Joshua Wolf Shenk quit the international literary center and The Believer magazine following a February incident where he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom call.
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