University Regents are elected to set policy for Nevada’s system of higher education and hire the chancellor. Yesterday, they heard that for the first time in a long time, the amount of financial assistance given to students was lower than the year before.
Some people knew this was coming as early as the year 2001. By […]

Wow! Even the Las Vegas Sun recognizes this as an abuse of taxpayers!
Each permanent campus leader has a four-year contract outlining base pay ranging from $181,220 yearly for Paul Killpatrick at Great Basin College to $406,946 yearly for David Ashley at UNLV and Milton Glick at UNR. That, plus car and housing allowances worth thousands […]

I was up in the Reno area earlier this week promoting the upcoming Republican caucus presidential preference poll and dropped in to spend an hour with KOH talk show host Bill Manders yesterday afternoon, when I heard my name being mentioned on the newscast.
Turns out KOH reporter Samantha Stone had called Chancellor Rogers and asked […]

A community college executive wasted taxpayer time and resources sending this out to all staff today:
Dear Colleagues:
Our governor’s proposed budget cuts loom as our semester draws to a close. While the specific areas affected by the reductions are not currently known, there is a sense of urgency for the CSN community to make it […]

Last week, the “leadership” of Nevada’s System of Higher Ed (NSHE) exhorted students to riot in opposition to state government not increasing spending as much as had been planned back before Nevada workers started being laid off, and tax growth slowed down.
Yesterday, students responded. Over sixty of them signed a petition. We’ll see what today’s […]

With all the talk about slowing down the growth rate of Nevada’s nation-leading expansion of government, today’s story in the Review Journal about higher education enrollment growth is worth noting.
The number of students at Nevada’s two universities fell slightly this fall, which could help spur steep fee increases as early as next year.
Preliminary data showed […]

It looks like Nevada’s taxes are going to grow pretty close to population growth and inflation. The problem is that state government spending is budgeted to grow faster than this. So Governor Gibbons did what Governors Miller and Guinn each did, faced with a similar circumstance: ask state agency heads to prepare a plan to […]