NFA Summer News Update for NSHE Faculty

Important news coverage since the end of the spring 2011 semester has focused on organizing and advocacy, and budget issues.

ORGANIZING & ADVOCACY

• July-August issue of AAUP journal a must-read for faculty and staff seeking change (Academe)
• Legal Defense procedures for NFA members (Faculty Alliance blog)

BUDGET & ECONOMY

• NSHE funding formula out of step with national trends in higher education (UNLV Faculty Alliance)
• Sun takes in-depth look at higher ed funding (Las Vegas Sun)
• USTAR exec: 'You have to have a strong educational system' for economic growth (Vegas Inc.)
• CSN closes Caliente extension (Las Vegas Review Journal)
• UNLV abolishes rolling admissions, makes deadline a month earlier (Las Vegas Sun)
• UNR Athletics expecting $1.5 million deficit (Reno Gazette Journal)

CAMPUS NEWS

• CSN to offer solar training in Laughlin (Laughlin Times)
• UNR gives 50 high schoolers entrepreneur lessons (Reno Gazette Journal)