This year, freshmen participating in 'Rebel Ready Week' will move into campus housing earlier than usual, getting a head start on their introduction to college life. Rebel Ready Week will take place from Monday, Aug. 21, to Friday, Aug. 25.

According to a recent analysis by the US Census Bureau, the number of college students who identify as Hispanic has doubled over the past 18 years.

The new UNLV Tuition+ Award Program will provide eligible Nevada residents a grant for 12 undergraduate credit hours of tuition and fees each semester, plus $1,000 for books for the school year.

Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll travel to Las Vegas, Nevada…and talk to someone who has created an office of diversity at universities on both sides of the country.

The Agenda explores the complex challenges that people of mixed ethnicity face when trying to find compatible bone-marrow and cord-blood donors, the topic of "Mixed Match...

He was a snappy dresser with slicked back hair and a pencil mustache. A crack bandleader, musician and legendary talent scout, he was dubbed the "Godfather of R&B."

The violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend when a “Unite the Right” rally clashed with counter protesters has resonated around the country. One person, Heather Heyer, was killed when a car rammed into the crowd of counter protesters. Nineteen other people were hurt. An Ohio man who was driving the car was charged.

Switching career paths might be a way to weather ups and downs in the job market, but those in the health sciences field seem to be able to stay put.

They're the keeper of our valuables at the airport, the repository of comfort-providing necessities during our flights and, if we pack right, our ticket to a quick escape from the airport at flight's end.

Awareness of racial discrimination has swept the nation in the last year. There have been shootings, protests and activism at many levels.

For weeks, high-profile protests at college campuses across the country have forced schools to have uncomfortable conversations about race and diversity.

UNLV President Len Jessup got ready for an anti-racism student rally Tuesday by vowing he'd attend and issuing a carefully worded news release detailing the university’s accomplishments in diversity.