On Monday, Edwin Oh led UNLV administrators on a tour through the lab where he and his colleagues study sewer water.

The new RebelFlex hybrid classrooms at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) were part of a big, bold plan. Not only a solution during a pandemic, but a new standard has been set in place for UNLV’s classrooms going forward.

Vickie Shields is the provost at Nevada State College, by far the fastest growing higher education institution in Nevada over the last decade. Enrollment more than doubled between 2015 and 2020, surging from around 3,500 students to more than 7,200.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas added another flavor of classrooms to its classroom ecosystem.

While the numbers of people infected by the new variant of the virus increase, university students prepare for the start of a new two-month period in person.

As the number of omicron cases increases in Nevada, college students are preparing to return to class next week for a new semester.

Despite more than a year and a half of fiscal and academic chaos spurred by the pandemic, two Nevada universities are set to maintain their status as Carnegie “R1” research universities under a preliminary classification announced late Wednesday.

Nevada public universities allow students who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enroll in spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make an emergency mandate permanent.