tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post4053476969381014887..comments2023-10-29T07:30:33.435-07:00Comments on UNLV Faculty Alliance: Testimony to Committee on Funding of Higher EducationNFA-UNLVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08544907691721075426noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-40918101054039939662013-02-12T21:16:48.784-08:002013-02-12T21:16:48.784-08:00The Secular Student Alliance is currently pushing ...The Secular Student Alliance is currently pushing for more secular and atheist groups in high schools. Do you think this is a good thing? Should atheist teenagers be allowed to have their own high school groups just like Christians currently do?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://phlebotomytrainingpro.net/nevada/" rel="nofollow">phlebotomy schools in NV</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106007750484567313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-29174543496458236602012-05-29T15:24:12.400-07:002012-05-29T15:24:12.400-07:00Anonymous #2, I took the "eating up" was...Anonymous #2, I took the "eating up" was from Kevin's comment.<br /><br />I agree entirely that CSN is underfunded per student (whether by FTE or headcount) compared to the other colleges. Thats precisely why CSN (and all our community colleges) need and should be getting local funding, especially for its workforce development programs, as most other states do.gregory brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18134369477938162419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-87215291074052709262012-05-26T19:25:23.568-07:002012-05-26T19:25:23.568-07:00Greg - I absolutely agree with you that the only s...Greg - I absolutely agree with you that the only solution is to add revenues to the whole system, and I agree that UNLV and CSN both need more funding, as do all of the other institutions.<br /><br />It is, however, inflammatory of you to describe CSN as "eating up the dollars" of the other community colleges, when the per student allotment as CSN is so very much less than the per student allotments at the three other community colleges. I don't have the exact numbers at my fingertips, but one of those schools gets twice as much as CSN per student, and the other two get 30% and 50% more. This despite the fact that CSN serves both urban and rural populations at three campuses and multiple satellite centers. Outside studies have repeatedly pointed to CSN as the institution with the greatest funding inequity in the state.<br /><br />I don't know anything about how you and Kevin feel about each other, but I appreciate the outstanding work you have done in your role. I still think that the pervasive disregard that UNLV has for CSN colors many of these conversations, and is particularly unpleasant given the relative disadvantages faced by CSN students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-20194877513709489792012-05-23T19:42:19.285-07:002012-05-23T19:42:19.285-07:00Kevin, and Anonymous, I guess you missed the part ...Kevin, and Anonymous, I guess you missed the part where I explicitly called for more funding for community colleges and for more funding for the System in general. Interesting that no one else called for that today except me, but I'm the one you criticize. <br /><br />Indeed the Chancellor's proposal, for which I express qualified support in my statement, has a net shift of about $2m away from the universities (plus shifts money away from DRI). I realize you were expecting more for CSN but thats not really what I was talking about at all -- it was about focusing more on education and less on costs.<br /><br />Interesting by the way that you have nothing to say to your colleagues from GBC, WNC and TMCC who stand to lose millions of dollars primarily to CSN under the Chancellor's "revenue neutral proposal." They are the ones who fear CSN is eating up their dollars, and they are right to fear that, unless there is a good case made for enhanced funding for the entire System.<br /><br />I realize you don't like me Kevin and anything I say will you will present as favoring UNLV over CSN but if you actually follow the issues, you'll see that the problem is a conception that a new formula solves our problems without a net increase in support for NSHE, and that is what I spoke against today.gregory brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18134369477938162419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-52909551391329909422012-05-23T16:03:39.563-07:002012-05-23T16:03:39.563-07:00Also, Greg, will you be wearing a hat on Pawn Star...Also, Greg, will you be wearing a hat on Pawn Stars?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-66260168968555516342012-05-23T15:57:03.214-07:002012-05-23T15:57:03.214-07:00Kevin - Those were my first thoughts too. The pre...Kevin - Those were my first thoughts too. The present funding formula has long pitted NSHE institutions against each other, to the good of none. UNLV may worry about that big bad CSN eating up its dollars, but from the CSN end of the street, it looks like a big, powerful university attacking the most impoverished institution in the system - AND the one that has the most disadvantaged students. Please UNLV, please Greg, just STOP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896468232172089156.post-36369785300902468412012-05-23T11:21:16.630-07:002012-05-23T11:21:16.630-07:00Greg; You make a nice case for UNLV but do you rea...Greg; You make a nice case for UNLV but do you realize that as President of NFA you represent CSN as well? What hat were you wearing when you made that statement?<br /><br />Kevin F. Boyle<br />CSNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com