UNLV's strong and weak points

VegasSommelier
Tue, 05 May 2009 05:05:21 +0000

U P D A T E -


Just had a meeting on campus today with about 50 graduate students, most PhD’s, and 4 academic advisory professors and department heads…

A question was asked about boosting university prestige and quality of education…
The answer was that ‘UNLV is supposedly dropping a quarter of its projected budget on research funding for current and new coming grad students over the next 5 years. They are actively pursuing some higher profile professors and lecturers in the upcoming summer as well. It is also funding the campus expansion, purchasing real estate around the campus for future projects and increasing library and laboratory funding.
The academic quality will come as a result of the increase in sat requirements (+ 10% in each category), decrease in admissions (75% down to 55% by 2014) and the heightened academic rigor by imposing mandatory internship hours and writing intensive classes necessary to graduate’.