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In 2007, the college received a $2.5 million gift from Caesar's Entertainment, which in 2005 had been acquired by Harrah’s Entertainment, toward the construction of a hospitality-focused academic building on the UNLV campus. Fundraising for the building subsequently stalled due to a nationwide economic downturn.
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 Consolidated Students of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, often abbreviated CSUN or UNLV CSUN, is the student body government at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It is a body funded by student fees and serves to represent the students needs on campus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [ 1 ]
Established in 1967 as the College of Business and Economics, the now Lee Business School is one of the largest schools at UNLV with approximately 3,500 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students, and 100 faculty and staff and offers the only AACSB accredited business program in Southern Nevada.
Another factor keeping upward pressure on Nevada’s jobless rate is the lack of affordable child care — particularly for those who work evening and overnight shifts at Las Vegas’ casinos and ...
The UNLV Graduate College was founded as the Division of Graduate Studies in 1964 by Nevada Southern University (UNLV's name prior to 1969). It was not until 1972 that the Division of Graduate Studies became the Graduate College as it is known today.
The work stoppage at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas marks the first open-ended strike in 22 years for the Culinary Workers Union, the largest labor union in Nevada, with about 60,000 members. Workers at ...
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 ]