After leading UNLV through the pandemic and the 2023 on-campus shooting, Keith Whitfield announced late Monday he is stepping down as president effective at the end of that day. 

Graduate assistants, who teach and perform research, say their stipends don’t provide liveable wages. They also claim they face harassment and discrimination.

Two candidates with ties to Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that has advocated for book bans and against policies that accommodate LGBTQ+ students, won their races on the Clark County School Board.

None of the candidates backed by Robert Beadles, an election denier, far-right provocateur and prominent GOP donor, will advance in their races on the Washoe County School Board.

Down-ballot races heat up as aspiring officials compete for county commission, school board and city council seats across Nevada.

For nearly a week, the Board of Regents governing the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) has been thrust into national culture wars after one regent’s remarks about transgender athletes drew national media attention and spurred calls this week for his resignation. 

UNR’s sudden and rapid entrance into the dual enrollment ecosystem two years ago has reignited longstanding debates over the power of the state’s oldest university in Southern Nevada.

After a stalled search, a new interim chancellor will soon emerge. When they do — will they be what the regents are looking for? 

The move comes after several members of an internal advisory committee and a handful of regents expressed concerns that none of the three candidates selected as finalists by an outside search firm had the necessary higher education or Nevada-specific experience needed for a new permanent chancellor. 

The agreement, effective as of Friday, includes a lump sum $610,000 severance payment, or roughly half of the value of the two-and-a-half years remaining on her original contract

The move elevates two regents, Cathy McAdoo and Patrick Carter, back to their positions as chair and vice chair, after the pair temporarily stepped down from their leadership positions in November.

Four major business groups and one of Nevada’s largest group of unions issued a letter Tuesday asking the state ethics board to investigate the conduct of two leaders on the Board of Regents.

In a party-line vote on Tuesday, six Republican lawmakers blocked the state Board of Health’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for college students and state health and corrections workers from becoming permanent.

In separate votes, the board voted 7-4 to name Regent Carol Del Carlo as new chair pro tempore and Regent Amy Carvalho as vice chair pro tempore.

Three weeks after the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education leveled serious allegations against the top two members of the Board of Regents, little has changed. 

The Board of Regents met for two days this week to hash out a host of higher education issues in the wake of a busy legislative session that saw operational budgets slashed even as personnel budgets were spared.

The money spent by Nevada colleges and universities on contract buyouts and settlements ballooned to more than $1.1 million last year, up from roughly $713,000 in 2019 or an increase of more than 54 percent, according to a report presented Thursday during the Board of Regents quarterly meeting.

The Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to approve plans for employee furloughs in line with an emergency measure passed during a special legislative session this summer, Assembly Bill 3, that outlined a number of cost-cutting measures meant to patch a $1.2 billion budget hole through the rest of the fiscal year.