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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.
Dr. Pollard earned the 2014 Woman of Distinction Award from the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Dr. Pollard was named one of Washington's 100 Most Influential Women by Washingtonian Magazine, won a 2017 Academic Leadership Award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and was a recipient of a Visionary Award by the Washington Area Women's Foundation.
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.
The textbook commission ceased to exist in 1981, while the state board for vocational education was renamed in 1985 into the state board for occupational education. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1995, the commission on post-secondary education was moved to the Department of Education from the Department of Business and Industry , though this only lasted until ...
Nevada's editorially independent, monthly student newspaper is The Nevada Sagebrush. Prior to 2004, the newspaper called itself simply the Sagebrush . The newspaper was given an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award for work completed during the 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2011–2012 and most recently, 2014–15, school years. [ 35 ]
University of Nevada, Las Vegas was the second four-year university in the state to be founded, initially as Nevada Southern University in 1957. Winning its autonomy in 1965, Nevada Southern was renamed in 1969 due to the need for better national recognition and partially for separation from the University of Nevada. [1]
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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]