David Lonergan is already helping his son, a high school senior, prepare for college and UNLV’s new One Admit program is making it that much easier to enroll next year.

UNLV and the College of Southern Nevada will begin offering guaranteed admission to their schools for Clark County School District seniors, starting with next fall’s freshman class, a UNLV official told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Lakshmi N. Reddi, an accomplished university administrator and current interim provost at New Mexico State University, has been appointed as next executive vice president and provost of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), effective June 1.

UNLV leaders, including Interim President Chris Heavey, talked about a planned healing garden near Beam Hall, where the shooting happened. The garden is expected to feature trees, flowers and benches that will feature the names of the victims. It was inspired by responses to a campus-wide survey asking for a memorial that looked natural and felt tranquil, school officials said.

School is in session, and going back to school may look different for older adults looking to get their degree for the first time.

After UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield announced that he was stepping down from his position on Monday, a chancellor at the Nevada System of Higher Education appointed a new leader to take charge temporarily.

UNLV's new officer in charge is promising stability for a university that was suddenly thrust into a leadership transition this week. The Nevada System of Higher Education named Chris Heavey, UNLV's executive vice president and provost, as the officer in charge in the wake of President Keith Whitfield's resignation.

After leading UNLV through the pandemic and the 2023 on-campus shooting, Keith Whitfield announced late Monday he is stepping down as president effective at the end of that day.

UNLV retained its Research 1 Carnegie designation as one of the nation’s highest-performing research universities.

UNLV retained its Research 1 Carnegie designation as one of the nation’s highest-performing research universities.

Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley still remembers the biting cold she experienced 20 years ago setting foot in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to mark the 60th year since the liberation of thousands of prisoners in 1945.

The trade wars, past and present, between China and the U.S. are nothing new. Neither are the harsh words between their governments. Even so, UNLV has had fairly close relations with higher education programs in China for many years. Now, the two are even closer.