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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.
College of Liberal Arts is the humanities and social sciences college at the University of Nevada. The Nevada School of the Arts [1] and the School of Social Research and Justice Studies [2] are located in the college. It was founded in 2004. CLA contains fourteen departments and six programs and centers.
Nevada State University: Henderson: Four year 2002: 7,169 Truckee Meadows Community College: Reno: Two year 1971: 9,651 Split from Western Nevada College in 1979. University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Paradise: Four year 1957: 30,660 University of Nevada, Reno: Reno: Four year 1874: 20,945 Western Nevada College: Carson City: Two year 1971: 3,582
The hall was the first building constructed on the campus and originally housed the entire university, including offices, classrooms, library and living quarters for the grounds keeper. It is named after U.S. Congressman and later Senator Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont, who was the author of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that led to ...
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UNLV is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning as an R1 - Very high research activity university. [2] It is one of two Tier 1 universities in Nevada. [3] University of Nevada, Reno is the oldest University in the state, established in 1874 as a land-grant institution. It is the flagship institution of the ...
In June 1908, the Mackay School of Mines building was presented to the University of Nevada, as a memorial to John Mackay, by his widow and son, Marie Louise Mackay and Clarence Mackay. A statue of John Mackay by Gutzon Borglum stands in front of the mining building on the main quad of the campus.