UNLV
began as a college with great potential. One of the primary reasons
was the financial support of Perry Thomas, Jerry Mack and Irwin
Molasky. Their names
alone gave great credibility to the future success of UNLV. Those
gifts should have brought a multitude of gifts that would have
jumpstarted UNLV to become competitive nationally. Unfortunately there
was little follow up by the multitude of rich southern
Nevadans.
We need to restart UNLV’s program to invent itself and include the rich folks to build
UNLV into a highly-ranked nationally respected university.
Had
we done a better job of selling UNLV’s potential success, we might have
enticed Jerry Herbst, one of the very wealthy southern Nevada business
people, into showing
his support by giving the school $100 million dollars or more.
UNLV needs to recruit a Jerry Tarkanian of academia!
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