The UCCSN Board of Regents today (Aug. 9) unanimously approved UNLV's plan for reorganization of its academic units.

Under the new organizational structure, the major colleges will include Business, Education, Engineering, Extended Studies, Fine Arts, Graduate, Health Sciences, Hotel Administration, Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Urban Affairs. The structure also incorporates the school of architecture into the College of Fine Arts and the school of social work and the Greenspun School of Communication into the College of Urban Affairs.

"This academic reorganization joins the completion of our year-long strategic planning process as one of our most significant accomplishments in the past year," according to President Carol C. Harter. "In the next year, we will be working to tie the planning and budgeting process to each of these academic units in ways that will assure that each unit has the resources it needs to meet the goals defined in the strategic plan."

Provost Douglas Ferraro said, "We are already finding that new relationships among the reorganized units have begun to generate promising collaborative initiatives. This speaks very positively not only to the receptiveness of our faculty to healthy change but also to the kinds of interdisciplinary exchanges among the faculty we anticipated the reorganization would foster."

The reorganization became effective immediately upon approval by the regents.