WHEN WILL THE BOARD OF REGENTS PUT AN END TO THIS NONSENSE?

STATE CAPITAL FUNDING FOR FACILITIES.   Bill Raggio, whom I admire and respect, must have laughed until his chest hurt, when he convinced the Legislature to adopt a funding formula that penalized UNLV for having new buildings and supported UNR because its buildings were old and in need of repair and maintenance.  Under the Bill Raggio snake-oil formula, the better you are, the less you get.  If that funding is projected forward, it means there really is little money coming to the Southern Nevada Schools for new construction. 

 

As I said yesterday, UNLV got shorted $600 million over 30 years, not because UNR got too much (the State has never adequately funded education) but because the State chose to short change UNLV in order to support UNR. 

 

For too long the allocation of building/construction funds for NSHE has been based on the "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" GETTING EQUAL ALLOCATIONS, REGARDLESS OF THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT (Clark County has about 75% of the total NSHE enrollment). This has left CSN and UNLV very short of facilities, while the institutions in the north have as much as two times the space per student as the NSHE institutions in Clark County. WHEN WILL THE BOARD OF REGENTS PUT AN END TO THIS NONSENSE?