Bonehead Deal!

This is the bonehead deal of the century and UNLV made it. When they sold the name of the business school to Ted Lee for 14 million dollars they forever set a benchmark that prohibited UNLV from ever selling the name of a college for more than 14 million dollars. Not only is the amount grossly inadequate there’s no term limit on it. A hundred years from now the UNLV business school will still be named after Ted Lee. To show how little thinking was given you should know that my name which is now on the University of Arizona Law School will only last 30 years, after which the University of Arizona may sell  the name again. We actually gave thought to the naming consequences. That is why my family’s gift exceeds 50 million dollars but has lasting effects of only 30 years. I wonder if Bill Bolt has ever given thought to the implications of his actions beyond the next 30 days.

 

Biomedical Pipeline Program

Truckee Meadows Community College’s Biomedical Pipeline Program: INBRE, the IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, is a multifaceted 10-year grant funded by the National Institutes of Health.  Areas of focus include building programs to serve undergraduates and encourage high school students to pursue degrees in the sciences, and build a biomedical student pipeline program to prepare students at primarily undergraduate institutions for transitions to four-year research institutions for entry into graduate school.  More than 78% of students in the INBRE program are female, and more than 88% are first-generation students.

Holiday Concert

Diversity Holiday Concert: Truckee Meadows Community College’s Concert Choir will present its annual winter program featuring music from a variety of countries, including France, Czech Republic, Japan, Spain/Latin America, India, an African Alleluia, and several well-known traditional carols. This free concert will be held on Wednesday, December 12^th at 7:30 p.m. in the Nell J. Redfield Foundation Performing Arts Center.

Success First Program

Success First Program: In the 2011-2012 academic year, 425 students participated in the Truckee Meadows Community College Success First program.  Fifty three percent of these students were from an underrepresented population, and 98% came from families where neither parent had earned a bachelor’s degree.

American Indian Descent

Slightly more than 3% of the student body at Great Basin College is of American Indian descent.  That is in the 95th percentile of more than 260 community colleges in the nation.

Great Basin Indian Archives

Great Basin College is home of the Great Basin Indian Archives, one of the most important oral history collections in the region. The archive was established in 2003 and provides students and researchers with easy access to primary and digital information chronicling the history and heritage of the Great Basin Indian people.

GBC & Minority Students

In the last decade, Great Basin College has tripled the number of certificates and degrees awarded annually to minority students and now awards nearly 20% of the certificate, associate and bachelor degrees to American Indian, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, African American, and students of mixed race.