UNLV is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2057, officials announced today. UNLV is the first Nevada System of Higher Education institution to launch a climate action plan, UNLV President Keith Whitfield said in a recorded message. Called Rebel CAP, the plan will act as a roadmap for sustainability around campus
UNLV says it’s time to sell Sam Boyd Stadium, as it has become a burden to upkeep, with the closed facility targeted by copper wire thieves and the homeless. Speaking Friday to the Nevada Board of Regents, UNLV President Keith Whitfield said maintaining and securing the stadium has become a problem since the Rebel football team stopped playing there in 2019 after their move to Allegiant Stadium in 2020.
After five long years of mainly sitting empty, there are some big steps forward in what’s next for Sam Boyd Stadium. On Friday, Sept. 6, the UNLV Board of Regents and Clark County discussed transferring the property back to the county.
UNLV President Keith Whitfield has watched enrollment at the university soar to new heights, growing from 30,660 students in fall 2022 to an expected 32,000 students for the fall 2024 semester that started last month. Whitfield has also seen the university at its lowest, when a shooter walked onto the campus on Dec. 6, 2023, killed three professors and wounded another.
The start of the fall semester at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, or UNLV, is here, and in addition to tons of new students and enhanced security and safety measures, Frank and Estella Beam Hall has reopened for classes.
Of the over 30,000 students that flocked to the first day of UNLV classes on Monday, some returned to the building where three professors lost their lives last year for the first time since. Frank and Estella Beam Hall holds the Lee Business School, where classes have not been held since December 6, 2023. The deadly shooting provoked $5.1 million in security upgrades, including $2.6 million to hire private security officers for the fall semester.
A light breeze flows through UNLV’s Frank and Estella Beam Hall early Monday morning as students mill about, some waiting anxiously outside classroom doors while others type away at laptops on the nearby benches or tables.
UNLV is hoping to sell Sam Boyd Stadium, even though the property was given to the university at no cost. The university invested millions of dollars to upgrade the stadium throughout the years. Now it's hoping to get some of that investment back.
Of the over 30,000 students that flocked to the first day of UNLV classes on Monday, some returned to the building where three professors lost their lives last year for the first time since. Frank and Estella Beam Hall holds the Lee Business School, where classes have not been held since December 6, 2023. The deadly shooting provoked $5.1 million in security upgrades, including $2.6 million to hire private security officers for the fall semester.
Students and staff were all back on campus at UNLV as the fall semester began Monday. “This is what a university is about,” UNLV President Keith Whitfield told FOX5 as he manned a free lemonade stand inside a packed Beam Hall. “That vibrance. People are here, people are going to classes for the first time.”
Thousands of students are back on UNLV campus for the fall semester. The university tells us this is the largest fall enrollment ever. I spoke to the university's president about what this means for the future of UNLV and took a look back at where it all started.
The fall semester for UNLV kicks off Monday morning. Not only will students and staff be back on campus, but UNLV will be rolling out all of their new security improvements.