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Nevada State University's 509-acre (206 ha) site is located at the base of the McCullough mountain range in the southeastern corner of Henderson. [31] The site was conveyed from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Henderson in November 2002 as part of the Clark County Conservation of Public Lands and Natural Resources Act of 2002.
The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE, formerly the University and Community College System of Nevada or UCCSN) is a state government unit in Nevada that oversees its public system of colleges and universities. It was formed in 1968 to oversee all state-supported higher education in the state.
Sage Ridge's cross country team, track & field team, and swim teams have ranked top in the Nevada state competition for both boys and girls. The school offers a variety of sports, including volleyball, cross country, swimming, golf, basketball and track and field. The boys' cross country team won the 2A state championships in 2004, 2006 and 2007.
A two-page bill signed into law by the Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer on March 23, 1959, authorized establishment of the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] UNR hired Dr. Wendell Mordy as the Founding Director (1960–1969) of the University's Desert Research Institute, which initially was an office at the top ...
The Department of Education was established in 1979, and initially consisted of three boards of commissions: the state board of education, the state board for vocational education, and the state textbook. [2] Several changes to the structure occurred in the 1980s.
This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Nevada. The higher education system of Nevada is composed primarily of public two and four-year institutions, private four-year institutions and two and four-year for-profit schools. The largest college in the state is the College of Southern Nevada with over 37,000 students.
Founded in 1971 as Clark County Community College, the school became Community College of Southern Nevada in 1991. On March 16, 2007, the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education voted to change the name of the school to its current name College of Southern Nevada on July 1, 2007. [3] [4] [5]
This is a list of school districts in Nevada, where school district boundaries coincide with county boundaries. Carson City is an independent city and has its own school district. [1] All Nevada school districts are independent governmental agencies. None are dependent on other layers of government. [2]