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Division of Student Affairs News

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Current Student Affairs News

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2024 UNLV Student Service Award winner Makayla Franklin inspires Black pride and representation on campus through Afrikan Black Coalition Conference.

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Yearly ‘Military Friendly Schools’ ranking evaluates over 1,800 schools nationally on efforts to create sustainable paths for student veteran success.

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Faculty, staff, students, and administrators came together to discuss recent initiatives and how to improve as a Minority-Serving Institution.

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Estefania Sandoval has her eyes on a career in health law to advocate for patients in minority and immigrant communities.

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The Adult Learner Summit provides students with resources to thrive in higher education. 

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UNLV’s annual crowdfunding drive will raise money on March 21 for scholarships, programs, research, and diverse causes campuswide.

Student Affairs In The News

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The Super Bowl this weekend could draw more than 200 million people to Las Vegas. With the Taylor Swift factor added in, the number could be a record. There’s no other sport that can rival that viewership … except perhaps one. Not baseball. Basketball. Hockey or soccer. It’s esports.

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UNLV used this donation and worked with Allied Esports to transform a social lounge into a high-tech gaming center for both the experienced esports athlete as well as the passing enthusiast.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The game room will have the latest PC technology for regular students and the university's Esports team.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

The Tonopah Gaming Lounge is now open for students and staff.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

UNLV’s fall semester ended on a tragic note, but this week many students chose to come together to overcome this tragedy and preserve and celebrate their accomplishments.

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UNLV’s Jewish students and members of the wider Las Vegas Jewish community continue to mourn following widespread massacres in Israel.

Student Affairs Experts

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Recent Student Affairs Accomplishments

  Keith Rogers (Student Affairs), vice president for Student Affairs, was named the 2024 Tyrone Thompson Emerging Leader Awardee. Rogers is one of six trailblazers the city honored. The city is honoring these community leaders before another highly-anticipated event — the Legacy Park induction ceremony. Learn more about the…
Rian Satterwhite (Office of Service Learning & Leadership, Student Affairs) recently participated in the inaugural International Leadership Association Dialogue Lab, where he facilitated a session on the future of leadership in the Anthropocene. The event drew together approx. 100 leadership educators, coaches, and researchers from multiple…
Rian Satterwhite (Office of Service Learning and Leadership; Student Affairs) was recently featured as a panel guest on the NASPA Leadership podcast in an episode exploring the work of the International Leadership Association’s Committee for the Advancement of Leadership Programs (of which Satterwhite is a part) and the ILA General Principle for…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership; Student Affairs) contributed a chapter to the newly published book from Routledge, The Handbook for Climate Change Leadership in Organizations: Developing Leadership for the Age of Sustainability, edited by Doug MacKie. Satterwhite's contribution, titled, "Environmental leadership is contemporary…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership; Student Affairs) recently presented at the International Leadership Association's 25th annual global conference held in Vancouver, Canada. Satterwhite co-facilitated a pre-conference session titled, "Flourishing Leadership in this New World," chaired a session titled, "Global Perspectives on…
Stine Odegard (Service Learning & Leadership) co-authored an article in the new special issue of the journal New Directions for Student Leadership, no. 179: Teaching Sustainability through Leadership Education. The article, titled, "Leadership education as democracy-in-action: In pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," is…