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College of Southern Nevada: Las Vegas: Four and Two year: 1971: 28,901 Founded as Clark County Community College, later renamed the Community College of Southern Nevada. Desert Research Institute: Reno and Las Vegas: Graduate: 1959: 440 Degrees awarded through the University of Nevada, Reno. Great Basin College: Elko: Four year 1967: 3,197
The University of Nevada remained the only four-year academic institution in the state of Nevada until 1965, when the Nevada Southern campus (now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas) separated into its own university. In 1969, the university's name was changed to the University of Nevada, Reno to distinguish from the new institution in Las Vegas.
The school, founded in 2006, is the first university public school in the nation for profoundly gifted (high IQ) students, a unique classification in Nevada legislature. [2] [3] [4] As of the 2023-2024 school year, 172 students are enrolled in the Davidson Academy Reno campus and 95 students are enrolled through the online campus.
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]
University of Nevada Reno Historic District on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno is a 40-acre (16 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on February 25, 1987. It includes works by architects Stanford White and Frederick J. DeLongchamps.
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 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant [a] research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. [3] The 332-acre (134 ha) [6] campus is about 1.6 mi (2.6 km) east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969.
The school was named for Dr. Robert McQueen, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.During his tenure from 1955 to 1991, Dr. McQueen headed UNR's scholarship program, served as department chair and dean, and was appointed to Nevada's first psychological board of examiners.