good morning I'm going to call this meeting to order at 817 first item is roll call Carrie chair carvalo here Vice chair DS here Regent Aris Scotta Regent vand I mean thank you Regent Breer here Regent Brooks here Regent Brown here Regent Cruz Crawford Regent Del Carlo here Regent Goodman here Regent McMichael here Regent Perkins here Regent tanian here you have a quorum present thank you Carrie next item is public comment for those who would like to call in and offer public comment please dial
669 444 9171 and enter meeting ID number 928 4944 5069 and enter passcode 555555 I will ask for public comment from the meeting sites first is there any public comment at GBC there's none at this time thank you is there any public comment at the system office in Reno none in reeno thank you is there any public comment here at drri yeah Regent Brooks well it looks like there might be some additional public comment thank you thank you please go ahead good morning uh Doug uner do un president UNL c
hapter Neva faculty Alliance thank you chair carvalo Vice chair DS and Regents for your consideration higher education in Nevada is being scrutinized as never before the NC ad hoc committee on higher education promises to reform funding and budgets but we don't know how and the question one ballot initiative may change the status and Independence of of the eni of eni and the Board of Regents in our state's Constitution during the past legislative s sessions some very bad bills have suggested wha
t might happen later one in the 80th session proposed to turn eni into a state agency in Carson City not unlike the DMV in the 83rd session a bill is thick as a novel laid out separating the R1 universities from the community colleges under governing boards like trustee boards we we don't know what changes are coming and I don't think our legislators do either so no wonder faculty are feeling insecure one anxiety-provoking issue is title four chapter 4 of the board of regions handbook governing
professional staff collective bargaining units it's obsolete IT addresses community colleges only and the bargaining units are set up as they are now deviate significantly from the language as written current title for a chapter for process also differs from NRS 288 which may cause legal problems should the question one ballot initiative passed next November I know many in this room do not wish the amendment to pass but wishful thinking is not a smart strategy we request a possible revision of t
itle 4 chapter 4 be placed on a Board of Regents agenda very soon and you've all been emailed our proposed revisions also to leave a code structure in place that may include faculty and professionals at our R1 universities let's please think ahead and be prepared thank you good morning my name is Cheryl Cardoza c a r do o zaa I'm a professor of English at Chucky Meadows Community College and the current state treasurer of Nevada faculty Alliance I stand here today in support of revising title 4
chapter 4 which does not reflect current and potential collective bargaining processes across our institutions and a face proposal for change attempts to open a dialogue with the system to make the policies and practices align in these attempts we kept we keep hitting an obstacle that vexes me the compartmentalization of Faculty Senate and Nevada faculty Alliance as past faculty Senate chair and past chair of the Council of chairs for this B I understand the different roles these two faculty ent
ities but the reality is much more complex to be a member of NFA I must be faculty at and an institution faculty Senate has the same prerequisite faculty members especially faculty leaders often engage in both roles at the same time these roles are interconnected and complex I'm a teacher a colleague a longstanding member of Faculty Senate academic standards and assessment committee an NFA representative and a collective bargaining negotiator none of these roles fully Define me but they do infor
m how I approach shared governance so let's stop compartmentalizing and do shared governance work with the faculty to repair title 4 chapter 4 thank you good morning Regents my name is Dion Stanfill and I am the former Nevada student Alliance chair I'm a current first year law student at the William S boy School of Law UNLV and I'm a representative for the student Bar Association before I get into my support I want to say thank you to Regent Brown on the record for her tireless efforts in organi
zing the community events for UNLV students it was really powerful to see the community come together in strategy so thank you Regent Brown uh but today I'm here to support the law school's three agenda items up for consideration item 21 our legislative priority Quest item 28 the fiscal year 2025 increase in Fe request and item 30 the bium increase request I chose to attend the William S Boyd school of law based on its esteemed reputation and status as Nevada's Premier law school our institution
standing is shaped by the caliber of our students the accomplishments of our alumni the Excellence of our programs and the high quality of Education that we provide maintaining the reputation of Nevada's law school holds significant importance for our state while its reputation is currently very strong it's imperative that uphold this standard by approving the proposed light line items it's not common for students to be in favor of a tuition fee increase but us students recognize the essential
and inevitable need for these line items to pass first the legal clinic it's invaluable resource that not that not only provides experiential education to students but also offers free legal services for those in our community who may not otherwise have success to Legal Assistance secondly Student Success initiatives full-time bar prep and study is crucial for achieving High passage rates and ultimately becoming a licensed attorney bar exam study materials alone easily can exceed $5,000 by fundi
ng students success initiatives we can support scholarships including those specifically for bar exam study thereby easing the financial burden of our students and increasing their chances of success now regarding the fee increase itself it is more than Justified that we consider the need for cost of living adjustments for faculty and the ne uh necessity of providing financial assistance for student scholarships and supporting various programs and activities I urge you to consider and approve th
e Boyd School of laws legislative and fee increase requests these measures are essential for maintaining the high standards of Nevada education and support what our institution is known for thank you very much hello Regents my name is Braden toy Bell and I am an incoming first year law student at the William S Boyd school of law in the fall I've given public comment to this board a few times as a student at UNR but today I am voicing my support for the law school's three items on your agenda tod
ay our legislative priority request item 21 item 28 and fiscal year 25 increase in fees request and item 30 the bium fee increase request as an incoming student I look forward in taking part in the great programs the law school has to offer with a base budget increase the legal clinic can continue to serve the community and provide an experience students like myself can look forward to Second enhancing Student Success initiatives to help support those studying for for the bar exam and providing
scholarships is imperative to creating the future lawyers of our state finally the fee increases will help the cost of living adjustments for the faculty and support the programs and activities the law school is able to provide I highly recommend that you support Nevada's Law School in approving the legislative and fee increased requests this will benefit the future classes of students like myself for years to come thank you for your time hello my name is will boyin and I'm a 1l at the Boyd Scho
ol of Law UNLV I'm here to provide public comment in support of the law schools three items on your agenda first I support Boyd's legislative request to enhance the law school's base budget to help the Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic and Student Success initiatives there's no better way for law students to learn than through Hands-On practice the budget enhancement allows Boyd to provide uh to continue provide free legal services to our community second I support the enhancement for Student Success
initiatives that would provide additional funding for student scholarships more specifically this funding is very important as it allows the law school to provide scholarships for bar exam study bar exam study funds will not only provide students with a valuable research uh resource for their Journey on becoming a licensed attorney but will also promote and improve Boyd's bar passage rate third I support the fiscal year 2025 fee increase as well as the bium fee increase the Boyd faculty deserve
their cost of living adjustment and additional fees are the way to make this happen I think this measure is vital to show our great faculty how much we value them one final thing I also want to give a quick shout out to Regent Brown for her effort in planning a lot of activity for students following the tragic events of January of December 6th uh like Dion I got to go to one of these events the NBA inseason tournament and it was so much fun and amazing to see uh how we can come together as a co
mmunity in these hard times so thank you rega Brown good morning today I'm going to be speaking in favor of agenda item number 21 my name is anahita Rodriguez and I'm a current student attorney for the UNLV immigration clinic at the William S Boyd School of Law in law school we are taught how to think like a lawyer but the legal clinics allow students like myself to use the knowledge we've learned during classes and apply it in real life as a student an attorney for the immigration Clinic it has
given me the opportunity to have real world experience in practicing immigration law I've had the privilege of working directly with clients and advocating for their rights in my experience I've learned that the clinic is not only helpful to my career in education it is a Lifeline for so many of our community members who are seeking refuge and legal assistance during the most difficult time in their life the hands-on experience I've received at the UNLV immigration Clinic are skills I will be a
ble to use in any practice of law I choose to do after after law school to conclude the UNLV immigration Clinic has made a positive impact to my career and has provided me with the skills necessary to Be an Effective legal advocate for our community I believe it's important for law students that come after me to have the same legal education and opportunity as I've had the privilege of experiencing at boy thank you thank you good morning my name is Lindsay Reynolds and I'm a thirdy year law stud
ent at the William S boy School of Law I serve as a student attorney for the Poverty Law and policy Clinic a Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic I'm here to provide support for two items item 21 and item 28 I support the law school's legislative requests to enhance the law school's base budget to help the Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic and Student Success initiatives first being a student in the the poverty lawn policy Clinic I can attest that clinical work provides invaluable exponential education to st
udents while providing free legal services to community members Clinic work is unlike any o opportunity at the law school as it allows students to engage in Innovative work in and for the community like changing Nevada policies that negatively affect vulnerable and lowincome communities while also allowing students to develop a professional identity an enhancement to the law school's base budget would allow the law school to continue to provide the community with free legal help collaboration Pa
rtners in the clinic noted that the work the clinics do at the law school addresses real needs in the community second the enhancement of Student Success initiatives would provide additional funding for student Scholarships in particular the enhancements would allow the law school to provide scholarships for the bar exam study as costs can run up to nearly $5,000 trust me I know law school produces lawyers only by passing the bar exam do students become licensed attorneys therefore it's imperati
ve students have the necessary resources to become practicing attorneys right here in Nevada thank you good morning my name is Michael Shimon and I graduated from the Boyd School of Law in 2019 my time as a student attorney at the Thomas and Ma Legal Clinic with Professor Kagan as my mentor was without a doubt the most memorable and most life-changing experience of my law school career not only because I was able to directly advocate for clients and feel like I was making a meaningful difference
but also because I learned practical skills and got a chance to see what real lawyering was all about to be Frank law school is not designed to teach students how to be lawyers the dry doctrinal courses may help with the bar exam but they do nothing to prepare young lawyers for the world of practice the Thomas and Mac Legal Clinic is the only program that gives law students just that whenever I speak to one L's and two L's I always stress the importance of doing Clinic because I believe that it
is the single most crucial component of a legal education if I were the dean of a law school I would make a semester of Clin mandatory for all students I enjoyed being in the immigration clinic so much that I went on to complete a two-year Fellowship there as a staff attorney after taking the bar and now I almost exclusively practice immigration law and my own firm the Thomas and Ma Weagle Clinic made me the lawyer that I am today and I cannot even imagine the path my career would have taken wi
thout it I asked that the Board of Regents support funding for the clinic so that law students can continue rece to receive a practical education that will benefit them for their rest of their professional lives thank you good morning my name is Andrew hugan tobler and I'm a third-year law student at the Williams Boyd School of Law um last semester I had the opportunity to be a um member of the mediation Clinic um and it was one of the most impactful things I've been able to do um during law sch
ool and is going to play a a key role um in my time as an attorney um when I was first being recruited to law schools um I had a friend who had gone to UNLV and they had a very impactful experience um in the law school's U mdem meter Clinic um and so when I decided to come here um I knew that I wanted to do a clinic myself and it certainly delivered um the clinic um serves a dual purpose of of providing practical experience to young future attorneys as well as Outreach to the community by suppor
t of um this budget item um it'll increase the law school's ability to um provide more opportunities to students and to the community and I'd ask that you would support thank you hello my name is Katherine and James and I too am a law student at William S Boyd's School of Law UNLV I'm here to provide comment on support of the law school's legislative priority request as part of item 21 as I'm privileged to be a part of the public policy program in the law clinic last year I'd like to summarize w
hy a clinic experience is momentous to a law school's education and how my particular experience was of immense value to myself and also to its benefit to the public at Large in Professor edwards's public policy Clinic we worked with nonprofits to help Advance their public policy objectives we did this by engaging with government agency rulemaking and the Colossus that is the uh Financial regulatory apparatus the clinic gave me experiences that I couldn't have had otherwise and a foot in the doo
r for job opportunities a clinic is akin to what I've experienced before with student teaching requirement that are for teachers and for rotations for medical students it trains students to become lawyers by offering hands-on experience interacting with clients with of course the supervision of a licensed attorney and is one of the most authentic experiences one can have in their three years in law school it is where the rubber hits the road as students truly learn what is beat effective and imp
ortantly an ethical attorney but this and other clinics availability is not a foregone inclusion I was lucky that the public policy Clinic was offered one time during my 3 years and I had the good sense to apply for it when it was offered if the clinic is added as an enhancement to the law school based budget it would allow the law school to expand the impact of the law school and its students thank you good morning my name is Caleb Green and I am a current attorney and graduated from the Willia
m S boy School of Law in 2019 um as many as my other colleagues and many of the other public comment you've heard today um I had the wonderful opportunity to be in our immigration Clinic through the Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic and I'm asking for your support for agenda item 21 today um I could sit up here and I could Echo and I want to Echo a lot of the prior public comment that a lot of my colleagues and uh and current students at the Williams Bo School of Law have made um but I'm going to add
a personal note um about how the Thomas Mac Legal Clinic has not only benefited me in my career but also how has benefited the community um during my time in the clinic I had the wonderful opportunity to represent a young woman who fled her home country um and came to this country without any family without any support with her young two-year-old son um I had the wonderful opportunity to represent her while in the Thomas and Ma Legal Clinic um and not only that the clinic gave me the hands-on e
xperience have you heard before to take what I learned in the law classroom and actually apply it in actual practice and I've been able to take that and hone it into my own practice um and just a few months ago I was actually able to actually get that client's case dismissed I took it on as a pro bono matter after I graduated from the William S Boyd School of Law like many other uh Clinic Alum have done um and I was able to actually provide that Pro bonal service your support for agenda item 21
will ensure that other students can take on that same mantle and be the social Engineers that this community desperately needs I urge your support support thank you hello my name is Todd Rucker Ru c k ER associate professor of English president of the UNR NFA chapter and member of our faculty Senate I am here to comment on agenda item 27 the concurrent enrollment fee structure as you know we have been facing a budget crisis at UNR that is negatively impacting the oncampus teaching and learning e
xperience with this in mind I am concerned about the proposal to the concurrent enrollment fee structure of $75 a class for a third year as that pricing does not sustainably allow us to provide high school students with a similar experience as their oncampus counterparts for comparison on campus students expect to pay over $750 a class High School teachers in our state often teach 200 students or more across their load which means they do not near have nearly the time as our oncampus faculty do
to give feedback on student writing and engage individually with students with the backing of our Provost who I thank for his support UNR has been able to do a tremendous job transforming the teaching of writing in high schools through a model that brings in extra support for teachers via instructional assistants who work closely with smaller groups of students to give feedback on their work I think we have been TR truly doing pioneering work in this with this model that said that model is expen
sive at $300 to $400 a student and is at risk due to the current unsustainable bottom dollar pricing structure elsewhere my colleagues in political science have struggled to offer quality concurrent enrollment experience as they've only been assigned one Loa for roughly 1,200 students and have struggled to obtain additional support for budgetary reasons please consider the possibility of a fee increase for next year so that we can continue to provide high school students with college level instr
uction without further driving institutional deficits thank you good morning Kent Irvin Erv past president Nevada faculty Alliance good morning chair carvalo Vice chair Downs region Chancellor presidents faculty Senate chairs as you know the NFA is requesting revisions to modernize handbook title 4 chapter 4 the policies for collective bargaining for professional employees more than 30 years ago the Board of Regents saw fit to establish collective bargaining as a way of improving labor relations
with faculty as title for chapter 4 was written in the early 1990 s it mostly followed the statutes at the time for local government employee associations in NRS 288 those statutes have significantly changed over time but the NG handbook has not kept up also the definitions of bargaining units and collective bargaining agreements at the various institutions just do not match current practice we have distributed draft Provisions to the Regents system administration and faculty Senate chairs now
is the time to work cooperative ly to provide feedback so we can bring the best possible proposal to the board on another topic over the past several meetings I have talked about transparency and accountability in the fiscal reports that are presented to the board it's not really a choice between providing highlevel executive summary that are digestible for board members and full reports that provide sufficient detail to see where revenue is coming from and how resources are being used and she a
nd the institutions can and must do both the Board of Regents should not just respond to the details of the legislative audit but you need to change the culture at eni for full transparency and accountability of the institutions in fiscal matters thank you good morning I'm Jim new neew and I'm the president of the Nevada faculty Alliance once again just to gentle reminder that NFA shared with you the Regents yesterday some proposals for revising title 4 chapter 4 of the handbook we certainly hop
e that you will take a look at that and uh engage in dialogue so that we can collaborate on this and bring that uh chapter of the handbook up to uh update it and uh use modern standards and reality in our practices today you will also be hearing about the budget priorities for each of the N institutions and without exception each of those institutions will ask you to consider a capital Improvement requests for new buildings but as you heard from students yesterday the effects of December 6th uh
continue to dramatically impact so many members of our campus communities not a week goes by that NFA does not hear from one of our constituents who is battling the effects of trauma related to that day and it's not restricted only to the UNL campus with finite resources we hope the security of our physical plants will be the top priority in our Capital Improvement requests thank you Patrick Villa V CSN faculty Senate chair um you know what time it is I'm going to say the same thing I always say
um going to say it a little different way here little probability because I'm a math professor sir I think we all know uh Vice chair DS knows about class deadlines you all know about deadlines in your businesses I think we' all agree that if you have a deadline the longer you wait to do it the closer you get the probability goes down now it's not a guarantee it's going to be a zero doesn't mean it's going to happen if not going to happen if the probability is low but as the days go on the chanc
es of something coming up to mess it up or something that's not anticipated is going to increase that probability of not happening and it's going to fail and I don't want to hear something like a failed search so I'm referring again to the CSN permanent president search it starts in 487 days now and longer we wait the chances of a problem coming up and and again we don't know things come up there is no harm in starting a search today so I ask you to consider things maybe on new business or anoth
er time um kicking that into gear because you guys are the ones that can make it happen so thank you good morning Regents my name is Peter Reid and I'm the chair of the faculty Senate at the University of Nevada Reno and also the chair of the Council of Senate chairs for eni and I'm here this morning because uh I was asked by a regent to speak during public comment to to share um the differences and commonalities between the faculty senates as part of shared governance and the Nevada faculty All
iance and so I'm going to do my best to articulate that difference in now a minute and a half um and I'm sure that there's much more conversation that can take place in these regards so very briefly um The Faculty senates on your campus are comprised of members who are elect by all faculty across the campuses and the faculty senates speak on behalf of those faculty collectively the Senate chairs speak on behalf of all faculty across the system and we are written into the handbook just as student
government is written into the handbook as the voice of Faculty that speaks and engages with the Regents on the agenda of the Regents meeting as part of shared governance the Nevada faculty Alliance also is comprised of Faculty from across the campuses and is a member or an affiliate of a national professional association called the American Association of University professionals and so they are an advocacy organization that Advocates on behalf of the well-being of Faculty it is a bit complex
in that on certain campuses such as CSN TMCC and wnc Nevada faculty Alliance serves as the lead entity for their collective bargaining units and so they have a direct role in engaging in governance issues on those campuses at drri there is no NFA chapter and at the other campuses NFA serves as an independent external advocacy organization representing the faculty who are their constituents so you can see that both organizations represent faculty the Senate represents all faculty in conversations
with the Regents and the NFA advocates for the faculty who are their dues paying members the one thing they have in common is that they're all very passionate about the quality of life and well-being of Faculty across our system and our commit to highquality education in the state of Nevada thank you good morning Dr Bill Robinson chair of the UN faculty Senate um faculty senates are creatures of the code we live in the code we have numerous specific responsibilities in the code and the handbook
and there's an implication in that of shared governance between the leadership of the campus and and us um I want to be nice but specific at the same time um you got the budget request that came that's on your agenda I saw you and El's budget request for the first time when the um agenda was released normally we expect that the faculty senates are part of that budget discussion there's $27 million in there for onetime money for the police not detailed what it is I'm sure it's necessary there's
$7 million for Staffing for the police which I guarantee you is more than necessary it might not even be enough there's $1 million in there for campus security not detailed in any ways what we're going to do with it there's a million and a half for mental health so there's well over $30 million that goes to security and the police there's only a million and a half to enhance the mental health resources on campus that to me and no Detail no breakdown of that either we need to commit as a system t
o the mental health of our faculty and our students the resources that are available for faculty in particular right now are extraordinarily poor and we need to step up and make sure that we provide the quality the the things that people are going through right now we have got to support them it can't just be the the pebp and the other programs that we have we need to do that there needs to be more attention to that in the um in the budget proposals and it should have come through us and the stu
dents need more than they're getting and I don't know that the money in there is enough on on a side note we need to talk sometime about the reports you get from Athletics if you haven't gone through the UN report let me just tell you a little secret we meet Title 9 because the women on the track team are each counted three times so there's 40 women on the track team they count as 120 female athletes and that's how we meet our Title 9 obligation and you can see that in the report but it's usuall
y not something we talk about so if you ever want to talk about that more than happy to thank you good morning my name is Shantel Marshall for the record first I want to say that you all look amazing with this backdrop so I hope someone takes lots of pictures um I am an associate professor at Nevada state and I'm also the vice president of the Nevada faculty Alliance I wanted to thank you on behalf of all of The Faculty that you voted uh to approve tenure for yesterday that wasn't me that was a
long time ago but I know how big of a deal it is for them and for all of us who make tenure which can be a really lonely process I know for those of you outside of Academia that process can seem a little vague but it is pretty lonely we're teaching our own classes we're publishing our own research we're dealing with editors who are slow on their feet to get us their feedback and so 10 and a momentous occasion on some campuses The Faculty group together to create a collective bargaining unit and
I'm so excited that my colleague Peter Reed explained the differences between faculty Senate and NFA because there are very important distinctions and we do different things for the faculty that we serve when faculty on a campus decide and vote for a collective bargaining unit things must happen and NFA is very concerned with what those processes look like so that they are transparent they are fair they are clear and everyone who is at the bargaining table understands what's happening and how it
should happen that's the reason we have decided to advocate for changes to the handbook to make that process very clear but I want to highlight that that only happens once the faculty on a campus have heard the information have asked questions and voted in the affirmative to create a collective bargaining unit outside of that NFA like on my campus is an advocacy group and one of the things that wasn't highlighted that I would like to share is that as a unit that is across all of eni we are at a
broader scope and so we often engage with the legislature as well so I just want to urge you to really think about changes to those handbook the handbook when it comes to collective bargaining units because that is a different separate process where we can represent faculty and it's fun to do it but we want to make sure it's clear thank you hello Roberta Sabbath contingency faculty at UNLV I want to speak to Bill's point and also Keith withfield support of Mental Health Services on our UNLV cam
pus this past week we had a wellness event that Keith uh headed and I think what over a hundred students were there uh I also teach composition where uh we have second semester freshmen they get to choose whatever topic they want to choose two of them have chose mental health and the dire need of University campus uh students that's a really a national on everybody the national radar just uh to our point yesterday in their oral presentations one of the students got up her topic is mental health
for college students specifically and the question was uh does our campus respond said yeah right after December 6 we got a lot of emails there have been a lot of emails saying we know where to go to help so I think we have a good beginning thank you thank you next I'll go to Regent Brooks thank you chair I appreciate that and I appreciate your Indulgence unfortunately uh we continue to see a Rise um frankly an alarming rise in anti-semitic behavior on college campuses Across the Nation um that
has a direct impact on our Jewish population locally uh particularly for Jewish students and faculty such hate driven Behavior not only viol violates the fundamentals of principles of Tolerance and respect but also undermines the educational experience and sense of security for Jewish students on our campuses on Thursday in a classroom at unov an Israeli guest lecturer was interrupted by a student pramas supporting group now the disruption lasted long enough for upd to show up to deescalate the
situation it was a hosting Professor who determined that the lecture would end out of concern for safety of the students and the guest the students who disrupted the lecture violated several campus codes of conduct and frankly I'm expecting to hear the results of any pending investigation regarding that very specific event um that event became while it was not local news became international news in December of 2022 this board adopted the international Holocaust remembrance alliance definition o
f anti-semitism to support the recognition of anti-Semitism when it appears on our campuses this is the same definition that is used by the US Department of Education when they investigate anti-semitic reports on campuses clearly we have a systemwide shortfall with its implementation and I'd like to see some improvements pretty quickly some Jewish students have safety concerns about addressing this body during public comment so I'll continue to Echo concerns of Jewish students who do not want to
provide public comment as well as my concerns as both a regent and a member of the Jewish Community now most of what I just said should sound pretty familiar because I said these same things in December during that meeting I asked that we have follow-up conversations to address how challenges regarding Jewish students and faculty are being addressed and can be addressed at our institutions so I'll be reaching out to presidents and asking again um with an expectation that we can get together som
etime this month to at least have a conversation to discuss how we can improve student experience for Jewish students across eni because frankly we we must simply do better thank you chair thank you um I'll now go to SCS to see if there's any public comment on the phone line yes Madam chair we have a couple of callers caller with the phone number ending in 8015 please unmute uh you have two minutes to address award please State and spite your name for the record yeah good morning my name is is A
ndrew Elkins and that spell elk inss and I would like to shift the conversation back uh to the school of law for just a minute um I want to express my support for the school's three agenda items with an emphasis online item 30 the bayum Fe increase I am fresh the anadin having moved here from Northwest Arkansas in August of last year and the sole reason I moved here was to attend law school at Boyd and it was The Prestige of the school and its established mechanisms for helping the community tha
t ultimately led me to come here I graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2022 and considered going to law school there however the administration of the school had undergone several changes in a short period of time there was significant faculty turnover and the school itself seemed unstable largely as a result uh from a lack of funding priority speaking with co-workers at the time who were lost students at Arkansas corroborated that suspicion and told me they were consistently unsure of
who their next Professor would be or how they were meant to build connections when there was limited static faculty some of them did not even know their course schedule until less than a week before the term started it is my understanding that much of this toold um is the result of that lack of priority in the funding as I said and for this reason several Arkansas students that I Know Myself included s a legal education outside of the state so I want to emphasize the importance of ensuring the s
chool gets the funding it requires to retain its faculty and further its stability ensuring that the Stellar professors and other faculty members at void remain and continue to grow the school is an imperative in avoiding the problems I heard of in witness in Arkansas this means that the fee increase is necessary to account for the cola adjustments for the law schools faculty to keep promising aspiring lawyers in the state of Nevada the moves must be made to ensure that voy can continue growing
at its con current trajectory and that people continue to be drawn to the school aside from the stability that an established faculty cohort provides a large part of the draw for me was the potential to work in the immigration division of the Thomas and Ma Legal Clinic my uh my prior draw showed me the importance of practical experience in tandem with illegal education um and knowing the law is not us if you don't know how to communicate with a client and function in a legal work environment um
and the ability of the school to offer this experiential education is Paramount in producing successful lawyers straight out of Law School uh so I urge you to keep in mind the potential consequences for the Nevada legal Community if the state's only law school does not receive the support it requires thank you for your time okay caller with the number ending in 2911 please press star six to unmute and you have state andp your name for the record you have two minutes to address the board good mor
ning my name is Maggio flarity and I am speaking today in my individual capacity as a Boyd School of Law student and president of the student Bar Association at the Boyd School of Law um I am a product of uh Nevada education all the way through I attended Nevada public education uh received my undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada Reno and now my law degree at the University of Nevada Las Vegas um would like to speak briefly in support of the law schools three items that uh have bee
n discussed by my colleagues as well um first starting with item 21 which highlights our clinic and Student Success programs the number one reason I attended Boyd was because of the reputation it's been able to make for itself in 25 years um it's a remarkable it it carries a remarkable name in the community and it's truly through the effort of uh our Clinic professors and our Clinic students uh as well as our our other programs that have really driven uh our efforts towards the community um thos
e programs are a testament to how we are able to um maintain our level of reputation in our community and it is through uh those programs that we can stay competitive uh with the with schools that are top ranked Across the Nation I would also like to express our support for uh the fiscal year 2025 fee increase as well as the bonum fee increase both of these uh go towards very necessary functions our Cola adjustments for professors um attracting uh very very good faculty is a priority of our scho
ol and uh it should continue to be one these are not just favorable policy considerations but they are really necessary for us to continue to be competitive as the Nevada law school thank you there are no other no other callers at this time Madam chair thank you next we will continue with the items that we were not able to get to yesterday so we'll go to item number 12 distinguish nevadan Awards um so we have several nominated by Regents um Regent Brown would you would you care to go first thank
you thank you uh regen Brown for the record um today I am hold on one second okay it is with the utmost honor and genuine enthusiasm that I present the nomination for Mr Dan Reynolds the lead singer of imagined dragons for the esteemed distinguished nevadan award in a state known known for its vibrancy Innovation and Relentless spirit that resonates deeply Dan Reynolds embodies the spirit of this recognition through his remarkable contribution to culture social and humanitarian fabric of our st
ate Dan Reynolds a Las Vegas native has transcended the boundaries of his musical prowess to become a driving force for positive change his dedication to fostering a better world and unwavering advocacy for V soci societal issues embodies the essence of what this award stands for Beyond his musical achievements Dan Reynolds has dedicated himself tirelessly to philanthropic and and activism exemplifying his exceptional service to Nevada and the broader Nation his unwavering support for crucial is
sues notably mental health awareness addiction recovery and the promotion of equal rights reflects his deep-seated commitment to the betterment of society through the power of music and his platform as a celebrity artist Dan has been a Beacon of Hope compassion and advocacy he co-founded the Tyler Robinson Foundation a Nevada 501c3 organization that has raised an impressive $15 million and provided invaluable assistance to over 10,000 pediatric cancer families underscoring his unwavering commitm
ent to making a positive impact on lives this commitment is further exemplified in his documentary believer which stands as a testament to fostering understanding and acceptance particularly within the lgbtq plus Community Dan's impactful storytelling and heartold lyrics have transcended boundaries touching the hearts of countless individuals and inspiring empathy and inclusivity across diverse audiences Dan Reynolds unwavering dedication passion and Relentless commitment to uplifting marginaliz
ed voices addressing societal changes and enriching Nevada's cultural mosaic encapsulates the qualities of a distinguished nevadan his profound impact on our state and Beyond along with his tireless efforts towards positive change render him an exemplary candidate for this prestigious honor showcasing his undeniable influence on the well-being of humankind and cultural tapestry of Nevada it is with sincere respect and heartfelt admiration that I whole wholeheartedly Endor Dan Reynolds for the di
stinguished Nevada award his legacy of compassion advocacy and positive change embody the spirit of the exem uh recognition thank you for your consideration and I'm honored to present Dan Reynolds as a deserving candidate for this prestigious honor thank you Regent Brown we'll we'll take all of these combined in one motion if that's okay um so for the next one I will go to Regent Brooks thank you chair um because I know that we we've got most of the information that regions could have read some
of this I'll just I'll just give a couple highlights for the nominee that I'm bringing for for it is uh Mr Joe Brown uh there's a lot of things that I could say about him but I'll just I'll I'll be brief Joe Brown's a former appointee of President Ronald Reagan to the state uh Justice Institute and the foreign claim settlement Commission of the United States joea served as chairman or director of many Civic business and charitable organizations including the nature conserv the Department of Wild
life the ne the Nevada Development Authority the Nevada athletic commission um the Nellis support team and the Catholic community services board Bank of America Wills Fargo and he's the founder of the Nevada Military Support Alliance Joe Brown is the only person in Nevada history who's been appointed to all three of the following commissions fish and game or Wildlife Commission athletic commission and gaming commission he served on the gaming commission from 2009 to 2015 uh Governor Gibson appoi
nted him and then at the time Governor sandal reappointed him uh it's really my my great pleasure to bring forward Joe Brown as consideration for this uh distinguished honor thank you chair thank you next I will go to Regent Del Carlo thank you um chair carvalo my nomination is Margaret Cavin who is a proud na in nevadan who was born in the rural my rural area of Hawthorne Nevada and her parents uh Donna Peggy Cavin she was the youngest of six children she had five older brothers all five of her
brothers all went to the university they became pilots and different professional careers but being the Tomboy because I know her mother wanted to dress her in dresses and she hated it Margaret took the skilled trades route which for a young girl in the 60s and 70s was really out of the box so she became a plumber fitter which is a um you know a skilled trades career um Margaret now is a partner in J and J Mechanical she founded her firm with her partner in 1982 her firm has provided installati
on of mechanical systems and numerous schools government buildings and properties throughout Northern Nevada I know they've done extensive work on the UNR campus Margaret was appointed to the Nevada state contractor's board in 2000 by Governor Kenny Gwyn and she was has continuously served under Governors Gibson Gibbons Sandoval cisac and Lombardo so under five governors Margaret was one of the founders of the nonprofit charitable organization friends of ace high school she has served as the pre
sident of the organization since its founding which has raised more than she's helped raise more than $1 million to support ace high school and for those of you from the south that don't know what ace high school is it's a um school for kids that don't want to go on the University track it gets them into skilled trades and we do wonderful Partnerships with them it's it's an amazing facility even though it's not part of and she I would recommend my colleagues go see it it's wonderful Margaret was
the first female president of the Nevada chapter of the associated general contractors in 1996 and we tried to do some research she was either the very first one in the country or tied with another woman that year so think back to 1996 this is not uh something typical that women would be doing especially in a man's world Contracting she was w awarded the sir award that stands for skill integrity and responsibility by the Nevada chapter in 2003 recognizing her leadership in the construction indu
stry and contributions to our community as a side note Mar marg's dad Dawn was also recognized as a distinguished evad back in 2000 this we'll have to do some history this may be the first father daughter so Margaret was instrumental in the creation of the post Balor program at the University of Nevada Reno in construction management Margaret was a significant contributor to accc's fundraising to support the creation of the construction management program the construction of the new engineering
school the construction of the earthquake lab and the construction management scholarship when I called the CEO of the Nevada chapter of AGC to inform him of my selection of her and obtain her construction industry accomplishments the first thing he said to me was and I quote I can't think of anyone more deserving than Margaret for this award Margaret is a very humble person and her list of philanthropic giving is legendary um if you you're looking for money go to Margaret she's she's her dad on
e time told me this is into my thing but she goes he goes Carol who do you think is my most successful of my six kids and he meant financially I go don I have no idea he goes it's Margaret hands down it's amazing what she's done in her career it is my honor to nominate her for the distinguished Nevada award and when I called to ask her she says well she didn't want her name Harley in public but she said what happens if I don't get voted in because that's how humble she is and I said Margaret you
're you're like a shoe in it's don't worry you'll get you'll get elected today so thank you chair Cala thank you next I'll go to Vice chair Downs Thank You Cher carvalo it's my honor to nominate someone I've work with um she's since retired but um work with her from 2004 to 2015 at Western V College her name is Dr Doris DWI uh Dr dwire earned her bachelor's degree from Eastern Kentucky University and her master's degree also there from that same institution her PhD she earned from uh Miami Unive
rsity in Ohio she hired on with inii in uh 19 1980 at the Fallon campus for Western Avada college and she served the community very well throughout the area she has um served on several boards to include uh Nevada Humanities committee University Nevada press board Nevada Historical Society quarterly editorial board Advisory Board of historic preservation nid division of museums and history board she's an evaluator for the Northwest commission and community colleges and universities uh on a more
National level she's worked with the US Department of Education Program significance panel the organization of uh American historians Community College committee and chair of the organization of American historians executive board uh she also does a Shaka program which is a very convincing does everyone know Whata is okay what's that okay and uh one year we had for f de Kappa we had an event and she came and performed there and she she was so convincing she she played a historical character I ca
n't remember who it was but um the person would be like 120 years old and students came up and they said wow you're you're in great shape they they were not quite aware what the shiaka was about so it was um she's a a great person to work with and a true treasure to have in the state so that's my nomination thank you thank you Regent Goodman thank you chair throughout my career I have been fortunate to know many strong capable and intelligent women who are incredibly accomplished and yet still m
aintain a beautiful home life where their family takes precedent Camille ruo is one of these women as Vice chairwoman of keep memory alive Mrs Ruvo leads the efforts of development event planning and all fundraising for Cleveland Clinic L Ruvo Center for brain health here in Nevada Mrs Ruvo is dedicated more than 20 years to help better the lives of those living in Nevada in addition to raising two daughters Camille coordinated major fundraising Endeavors for the Meadow School Alexander Dawson a
nd Bishop Gorman High School Mrs ruo has continued throughout the years to volunteer support and fundraise for various charities in Las Vegas she served on the Andre aesy Capital campaign board and shortly thereafter Mrs ruo became an effective member of the Catholic Charities executive board for six years earning her seed as president of the Catholic Charities executive board the woodro Wilson Foundation the heart of Hope Foundation Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and the Girl Scouts of S
outhern Nevada have recognized Mrs ruo's philanthropic efforts Camille ruo is proud to be the wife of Larry ruo the mother of Lauren and Briana and the Stepmom of Nicole a true distinguished nevadan I am honored to uh nominate Camille ruo for this incredible award thank you Regent Goodman um I was oh next I'd like to go to Regent tanian Regent arcanian you're on mute there you go Some people prefer that no no in addition to the esteemed individuals already mentioned I am pleased to present the n
omination of Dr Russell Herbert for the distinguished nevadan award in recognition of his outstanding and dedicated service to unlb and his contributions to humankind to scientific research and Innovation Dr Herbert is an accomplished Professor within the UNLV Department of psychology after serving as chair of the department he ascended to the rank of full Professor for more than 46 years that's 46 Dr robbert has served as an instructor and Mentor for countless students interested in the field o
f psychology an exceptional scholar he was hosted by universities and institutes in the England Germany and the Netherlands as a visiting scientist and visiting Professor throughout his career he's received numerous honors including the baric distinguished scholar award the UNLV distinguished teaching award the International Development award and the William moris award for excellence in both teaching and scholarship Dr Herbert pioneered the investigation of what we call Inner experience includi
ng thoughts feeling and Sensations from there he developed descriptive experience sampling a method for exploring inner experience and advancing the field of psychology through the application of psychological science through teaching research and scholarship Dr Herbert has positively impacted the study and practice of psychology benefiting the lives of Nadin and those well beyond the borders of our state I respectfully ask that we honor him with this very distinguished award thank you thank you
Regent tanian um now on behalf of the full board I would like to present um for your consideration Dr Carmelo urza Dr urza is very deserving of this award the university studies abroad consort which is USAC that he established in 1983 grew out of an informal faculty and student exchange between the University of The Basque country and the University of Nevada Reno's prestigious Basque studies program beginning with a single site in San Sebastian Spain Dr urza gradually expanded USAC to sites on
every inhabited continent today USAC is one of the largest and most successful study abroad programs in the United States with over 50 programs in 25 countries since its Inception USAC has placed over 10,000 students in its programs abroad among those UNR accounts for approximately 7,000 students the others come from UNLV Associated universities and from students at any us University who meets the requirements for acceptance Dr urza has also encouraged collaboration with other Nevada system of
higher education campuses and some Nevada high schools to introduce the idea of studying abroad early in students lives his program focuses on foreign languages and cultures which equip participants for success in today's integrated world as any student who has studied abroad with USAC will attest the experience is fulfilling and can be life-changing Dr urza served as UNR study abroad coordinator for over three decades he retired as CEO of USAC in 2017 leaving a legacy that will continue far int
o the future the USAC brand is wellestablished and respected in the univer in the universe of foreign study programs enhancing the reputation of the University of Nevada Reno and the entire University of Nevada system of higher education I'm proud to nominate Dr urza for the distinguished nevadan award so at this time I would entertain a motion to Grant um Mr Joe Brown Mr Dan Reynolds Miss Margaret Cav Cavin Cavin Dr Doris DWI Camille Ruvo Dr Herbert and Dr urza as distinguished Nadin so moved I
'd like to make a motion I I think I heard a a a motion from uh Regent Perkins and I'll take a second from Regent Del Carlo all those in favor please say i i i i opposed motion carries [Applause] congratulations next we'll move on to item number 14 University Police Services critical labor shortage designation and for this I will turn it to president Whitfield good morning chair Vice chair Regents uh fellow presidents um for the record Keith Whitfield President of University of Nevada Las Vegas
um law enforcement agencies all throughout the country are experiencing historic and unprecedented issues regarding Recruitment and retainment and University Police Services here in southern Nevada experienced this more than ever what I'd like to do is to ask uh Southern command director Adam Garcia to take the floor and to lead this discussion in this issue director Garcia thank you president Whitfield good morning chair carvalo Vice chair DS and vice chair Dons congratulations on your PhD very
good uh fellow Regents uh Chancellor Charlton in presidence for the record my name is Adam Garcia vice president Public Safety Services and director University Police Southern command um I'm here to provide you with information and to seek your approval in the designation uh within certain positions within University Police is critical hire positions uh so I wanted to make sure that you understand that this is what the NRS calls it critical hire positions we are not at a critical stage but this
will assist us in moving forward to filling the positions and I'll explain how we've gotten here and why here in in a few minutes as you may recall or for those regions who are new to the board I had come before the board in September of 2022 to see critical higher designations for police officers in dispatch positions at that time time the board approved my request and subsequently the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System also approved uh the request in December of that year that designat
ion in the subsequent approval was for police officer in dispatch positions only and as per law uh this was approved for a two-year period um if conditions warrant um I will be returning with the approval of the president and the chancellor at the end of 202 24 to seek an extension um of that designation for these positions as you may recall from uh many of my other presentations to the board uh between the pandemic publicized scrutiny heightened law enforcement accountability cyclical employee
retirements and resignations transferring to other law enforcement agencies for increases in compensation professional grow or just a change in law enforcement Specialties agencies across Nevada in the country have experienced unprecedented impacts to recruiting and retaining employees this is not a University Police Issue this is a nearly Universal issue across the country and we are simply mirroring what we see in our profession uh for instance last May the Nevada State Police announced that i
t would curtail early morning Patrols in Northern B because of their severe Staffing shortages in Louisiana the governor issued an executive order on February 16th of this year declaring a state of emergency in that state due to police officer shortages this past Tuesday the city of San Francisco raised the starting Sal salary for police officers in that City to $12,000 in a bid to attract new officers and just just this past Monday the Phoenix Police Department reported that for the first time
since 2019 their Department saw some success by quote emphasizing its offer Wellness unit marketing to a younger generation sense of community in increasing pay unquote all of which we have also done this request then is the next step I'm requesting today for approval for the critical hire designation to be applied to sworn supervisory staff so we already have the designation for Dispatchers in Patrol officers this is for supervisory staff as well as non-sworn community service officers currentl
y the department has a total of six Lieutenant positions Southern command two of those are vacant the department also has again Southern command 11 Sergeant positions of which six of them are vacant most of our supervisor sworn positions are initially recruited internally however the majority of our officers have been with the department for two years or less so we are lacking that depth of experience by way of this designation the department will be able to benefit in a number of different ways
number one we can re-engage experienced supervisors who are PR retired their training curve for these roles will be significantly reduced and the Recruitment and onboarding time for the positions will also be reduced for the community service offer program which is a new program that we initiated a year ago 13 positions were created and of those the department has hired five but of those hires only two remain Nevada R Revis statute 28652 3 requires this board to designate these positions as cri
tical hires upon request if approved it also allows the department to expediently hire retired law enforcement in public safety positions without impacting their retirement benefits this is the designation I'm requesting which allow the department to re-employ those as employees Statewide it will apply again only to police Lieutenant sergeant and community service AER PR positions I wanted to thank you for your continued support and that concludes my comments I'm available for any questions if y
ou have them thank you thank you are there any questions or comments for vice president Garcia yes please Regent boand thank you chair I appreciate it uh I think this is a worthy cause because I can see how we need more and supervisors as well as regular uh you call them community service officers I think your request is uh awesome it should be done cuz what happens when we are in trouble the first people we think of is the police and they seem to be the least uh I mean not they're not paid enou
gh I don't care how much money they get they have to put their lives in danger every day but it doesn't happen that they'll shoot somebody or get shot at but there's still danger and it was thanks to our young uh officers uh director Garcia your people who stopped a massacre at LV in December it could have been worse but thank goodness for them being there I think we need more of them in more places at all times so I support what you are requesting director Garcia thank you for thank you for eve
rything you and you thank you Regent Brook thank you chair good morning can you please let us know what would be the ramp up time um once this is approved how long does it does it actually take to be able to fill some of these vacancies particularly the the sergeant positions that need to be filled um and then and then the others the ne Adam Garcia for the record thank you for that question Regent uh Brooks um The Next Step if the board approves this designation is it goes to Pur uh and they the
n uh approve it depending on the information that's provided by uh the system office that typically takes 30 days or so uh from that point then we begin a recruitment process and um because most of these folks who would be hired under this this designation have already been uh police officers in other positions that cuts down the recruitment time uh the um the time we need for backgrounds and and training uh so we could ideally uh from application a day to hire perhaps 3 months thank you I appre
ciate that that seems pretty pretty quick and efficient thank you thank you chair thank you um just before I go to Regent McMichael I do want to um point out that there are two parts uh to to this item um the if we are approving um the written findings and also approving the designation so I just want to make that clear um if um for all of the regions um region McMichael motion to approve both portions of this uh agenda item so I have a motion from Regent McMichael and a second from Regent Perki
ns all those in favor please say I I I opposed motion carries thank you thank you item number 15 code revision appointment and termination this is for information only this is the first reading um of a code revision and for this item I will turn over the time to associate Vice Chancellor for academic and student affairs Renee Davis thank you chair carvalo Vice chair downs and Regent um here as um the chair explained to talk about a proposal um to revise the code um and we will come back we plan
to come back in uh June at the meeting then so this revision is title to chapter 5 Section 5.4 and the purpose of this revision is to provide a very narrow exception to the board requirement um to bring multi-year contracts to the board for approval um in this case um the exception that has been requested by um UNLV and is supported by UNR um Med schools um has to do with creating a process of where the president is authorized to approve a multi-year contract um specifically for um Physicians to
basically be approved to stay um in in the US under a waiver program currently um the Nevada HHS is authorized by the federal government to allow up to 30 wavers be granted um and this would allow for um the med schools in particular UNLV at this point to fill needed positions and the issue really is one of timing where having to come to the board to get the approval for the multi-year contract slows down and doesn't always sync up very well with the process that's required to get the waiver so
it really is very uh Technical and again very narrow um and Dean Khan is also here um if you have any questions but that that's the explanation of this request thank you are there any questions or comments regarding this first reading of this code revision NOP thank you for bringing this forward I I think that uh that that it makes a lot of sense and and um and hopefully we can approve it soon thank you item number 16 uh employee contracts buyouts the annual report and for this I will turn it o
ver to Chief general counsel James Martinez thank you good morning Chief General councel Jimmy Martinez for the record this is the time that we give the annual the Chancellor's annual report for employee contract buyouts just a little bit of history on this what this is is for the terminations without cause so there's a process in our handbook for termination without cause separate process for termination with cause when a when an employee receives a notice of non- reappointment of their contrac
t or a notice of termination in their contract um which basically mean the same thing the code just uses different language for different periods of time depending on start dates they're entitled to a notice period that notice period has a dollar value to it so the purpose of this policy that came forward in 2019 was for the board to see the contract buyouts that were being negotiated and make sure that they're Justified and or resulting in cost savings to the system this year as when I gave thi
s report last year I I let the board know we would be revising the reporting forms because some of the amounts that were being reported in it didn't quite give us the ability to to see what the cost savings were because they included other amounts such as annual leave payouts that were going to be required regardless of the contract by out portion so it when you drill down into the details of the justifications it it got kind of convoluted and hard to interpret um of course this is always a hard
report to give because all of the backup documentation is considered confidential Personnel records however we keep a a courtesy copy of that in our office and so any regions that want to review that that data can make an appointment and come see that the new reporting forms have a space where the institutions have to provide a justification for the buyout as well as a cost breakdown of what the payment was for and the total cost of the notice period so it makes it very easy now to determine wh
ether or not there's a cost savings and whether or not the justification is there um I if you look at the report itself even though there's not a column in there I can represent that the reported buyouts for 2023 do represent a cost savings over the notice periods of a little over $95,000 so it seems the policy is doing what it intended to do which is keeping uh the system um in line with the board's expectations for these buyouts and with that I can answer any any questions are there any questi
ons or comments from the board seeing none this is for information only so thank you Mr Martinez thank you um the next item is item 20 um but before we go to that I'd like to just take a uh a a seven minute break um so yeah seven minutes exactly all right thank you 9:45 all right we're gonna get started we're moving on to item number 20 annual Athletics reports for UNLV UNR CSN and TMCC this is for possible action I will first go to president Whitfield thank you chair Vice chair Regents fellow p
residents for the record Keith Whitfield president of UNLV um so to start our discussion on Athletics I'm going to ask my athletic director Eric Harper to come forward and uh do the presentation for the record Eric be Harper director of Athletics UNLV good morning chairwoman carall board and Chancellor unov Athletics is driven to continuously improve and push the trajectory of the department along with the entertainment division of Thomas and Mack Center in Cox to the highest ever in its history
the primary focuses the past year was and continues to be the student athlete experience and what we can do as a department to enhance their lives daily through the implementation of student athlete first mentality as we continue our mission to graduate leaders win championships and Excel in all we do we will challenge our internal and external constituents to rubel up and join us in building unov Athletics in a way to assist in elevating unov as a whole this new vision born in January of 22 wh
ich includes empathy features an emphasis on the staff's mental physical and emotional health has been activated and executed in building a truly engageed Department to support each other new athletics department strategic plan launched September of 22 aimed at delivering the premier student athlete experience in college athletics while providing opportunities for student athletes to excel at the highest levels in sport and life after sport the six pillars as part of that strategic plan with stu
dent athlete development athletic Excellence model Enterprise Fan Experience Community relationships diversity Equity inclusion and belongings we are in economic uncertain times and must continue remain steadfast and enhance our commitment to the student athlete experience the landscape of V Collegiate Athletics has become the most fluid ever in its history the adoption of new legislation related to nil transfer portal and the most defining change driven by Revenue has been and continues to be c
onference realignment who knows where we'll be in the next three to five years only time will tell regardless of what happens or doesn't happen UNLV will be positioned to ensure a great student athlete holistic experience focused on academic Athletics and life after sport our student athletes have achieved at a very high level and I couldn't be prouder to represent them in the scarlet and gray the athletics department and Thomas and Maxon Vision has helped develop an outstanding culture that stu
dent athletes coaches staff and community members want to be a part of division has featured a culture that supports the health and well-being of our student athletes so that they can reach their maximum absolute maximum potential in all areas that posi positively impact and Elevate their experience we continue continue to engage with all of our constituents to include the unov Campus Community Campus Community donors corporate partners and greater Las Vegas Community other priorities over the l
ast couple of years build on and support our Championship culture nurture our supportive Rebel Community among all constituents increase academic and scholarship support through new endowments health and wellness mental Wellness enhanced new Sports Nutrition the switch Sports Science Studio to enhance use of science data to strategize for Optimal Performance athletically recently enhanced some facilities Cox Pavilion and thomasch on court Lighting in the Cox Pavilion is where our Lady Rebels pla
y as well as our women's volleyball team football field practice fields that were 13 years old have been resurfaced with with with brand new Turf softball and soccer scoreboards softball soccer baseball are planned to be repl fields are are planned to be replaced with the assistance of donors in including naming opportunities some notable bench benchmarks in 202 2023 the academic success of our student athletes has been widely publicized the 88% graduation rate for our student athletes for a thi
rd straight year of of Record 12 straight semesters with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better for all students and we just completed the fall semester obviously and now with 13 consecutive semesters with the 3.0 or better cative GFA of 3.1 n semester GPA of 3.07 76% of our student athletes had a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher 61.9% in the spring of 23 had a GPA cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better and just this past fall that number Rose to 73.2% of our student athletes had a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or bet
ter 169 of our student athletes earned academic all Mountain West and whack honors 100 student athletes made the mountain West scholar athlete award 244 student athletes made the unov dean honor list which which requires a 3.5 GPA with 12 credit hours cative GPA records women's soccer 3.68 women's tennis 3.61 women's golf 3.71 and women's swimming and Diving 3.39 men got to get it together men's golf 3.1 on a record semester GPA record set last this just this past fall football was 3.22 so men a
re getting it together men swimming and Diving 3.0 women's swimming and Diving 3.69 and women's tennis at 3.71 the academic progress rate has now reached an alltime record of 987 seven teams tied or set records with a perfect single score of 1,000 I can't thank our academic success team enough who who reports up to the academic success Center I can't thank them enough for their work work with our student athletes and helping them Reach the graduation rate of 88% in competition five Conference ti
tles women's basketball regular season and tournament back to back and just recently secured regular season championship for a three Pat in our lady Rebel basketball program and there and threee and regular tournament tournament B Mount West tournament starts on March 10 at the TMC women men swimming and Diving is currently on a three Pat in the whack and has off to a great start this week to to solicit to uh accomplish a foreat in men's swimming and Diving women's tennis last spring uh finished
with a the mount West tournament with a championship volleyball was regular season Champs with five straight postseason Appearances first time ever in school history football 23 Mountain West regular season Champions and hosting for the first time in playing in the game for the first time in Mount West history four All Region District honores Six conference players of the Year F Rosa Santana in track and field Isabelle Martin in volleyball three football players just past fall receive All-Ameri
can status Jackson Woodard is the first ever un football player to achieve academic All-American our four of our coaches earned coach of the year in Lindy Lorac Ben Lo Ben LS Dan Don Sullivan who is now at a different institution we hired Malia shogi to take over our volleyball program and then our our recent most recent uh coach of the year in the conference is Barry odm in football we've had over 50 Community Service events over 2,000 community service hours and just coming up here on Saturday
April 20th will be our second build- a bed project as part of the sleep in Heavenly peace where no kids sleep on our floor in our town 100 beds for underprivileged youth will be built in the parking lot of Thomas Mack on April 20th on the first time we did this was two years two Springs ago we had over 419 volunteers uh to include Dr Whitfield sanding uh beds to be built for underprivileged youth unov food pantry our student athletes have participa in ccsd's Nevada reading week Three Square Foo
d Bank Los Vegas rotary and most recently and has for several years now women and girls in sports National Day some facility upgrades I mentioned just a moment ago but just to add to that uh was uh was additional LED lighting in the practice gym and also in the main gym the switch Sport Science studio is completely funded and construction will start late this spring we just recently completed an economic impact study that was provided to us in January by a company called lightcast and we will be
going to to diving through that to determine exactly how the best suit us the rebel up up Campaign which I mentioned a moment ago launched in October of 23 designed for philanthropic support student athlete EXP health and wellness scholarship and program endowments capital projects and sustained facility improvements the rubel up campaign to date with new cash and pledge commitments the board gaming excuse me $6.5 million commitment board gaming just released this week $1 million Anonymous dona
tion that we will release later next week uh as relates to where it will be be uh used we are currently in the process of of completing another million doll commitment and it's in phase right now and currently sitting with the legal teams we've had multiple low and mid six figure gifts totaling just over $850,000 $25 to $30 million in projected solicitation over the next four months and one $1 million plus solicitation if I can get out of here today by 11:30 I will go do that primarily supportin
g de in this this new solicitation and hopefully closure will be designed to support the career development for women NCAA events that be hosted in coordination with the Las Vegas Convention and vision Authority hosting of the 2023 NCAA division 1 men's basketball Regional we recently hosted the NIT men's final four a year ago also hosted the N NCAA bowling championships also hosted the NCAA men's Regional golf tournament and all in in 20128 we will be hosting the NCA Division 1 men's basketball
Final Four some of the things that have happened on campus recently I started to recently started meeting with deans of the colleges to collaborate in areas that both benefit each each area to include fundraising and research we've working we we will be working with the Honors College with sports science data analysis we're working with College of educ we have already been working with the College of Education and sports diet science data analysis hotel hotel Hospitality college has been doing
the meals in the fatita football complex for all student athletes School of Nursing is in it's in its infant stages of working with them as it relates to working with our atc's during physical exams in the fall and kirkorian School of Medicine working to develop more comprehensive care for student athletes through a medical model similar to many institutions across the country chair that concludes my report thank you Mr Harper are there questions comments from regions I see region Perkins um tha
nk you madam chair just a quick question I know you has a rodeo team they weren't mentioned in any of these reports the rodeo team is a club Sport and not underneath Athletics thank you yes Regent Brown thank you uh Regent Brown for the record um so I was looking at the attachment uh 20a page 35 and it talks about like operating expenditures and it goes into athletic student aid um going through this packet I didn't see anything about the foundations and I don't know if that was I don't even kno
w if you guys would report on them because I don't truly understand the relationship between the athletic department and the foundation so could you start there Foundation uh no I'm sorry um football Foundation golf Foundation I think there's a third as well uh soccer Foundation soccer thank you yes both all three original football all all three of those are are are constructed outside of the University we meet with them uh regularly with their meetings and when we request funds from them then t
hey will in turn uh go through their board have a majority of majority vote before they provide to us uh the football Foundation recently our last we received a check in May $150,000 towards nutrition uh in football golf expenses are paid for excluding salaries are paid for by the foundation and then um uh soccer assists with promotions of our games as well as uh they've worked with they call them normant Tech boots which is recovery uh boots that student athletes put around their their legs aft
er practice after games uh they've assisted in nutrition and also assisting with the field preparations uh thank you for that context and so um with that in mind it when we see student uh athletic student aid this is not coming from the foundation this is what okay so the only thing that may come like uh when I first arrived here in 2012 what came from the football Foundation was the assistance on those student athletes that have exhausted eligibility and they're trying to come back after seven
8 nine 10 years to complete their degrees so the football Foundation has helped in those maners as well that's great to know that there's additional support than what's in here so thank you I appreciate that thank you other questions from regions yes question from Reno I'll go to I'll go to Regent AIS Scotta and then Regent Goodman oh thank you Regent Goodman thank you reg Regent carvalo um on the budget to actuals please describe the variances from the prior year to the budgeted year um in addi
tion to the budget projection actuals what I'm looking at on page 24 are some some of the budget to actuals expenses and on some of them there's a pretty large uh variation between the two especially on the state Appropriations and the internal revenues from the budgeted actuals I just want to get a little bit of context on those two if possible please yes as region Eris scato um I will have my CFO uh Sam Marone explain that if that's okay Sam Marone CFO for unov V athletic department for the re
cord um can you help me understand exactly what you're looking at on page 24 I've got it here in front of me my pleasure what I'm looking on page 24 um under fiscal year both 23 I'm just going to focus on fiscal yeld 23 okay when you're looking at just about the state Appropriations and the internal revenues but the gift revenues internal Reven news but also one of the concerning ones is for me at least is for student fees uh some of the budget to actuals uh there there seems to be a variance be
tween some of them and on the budget actuals I was just going to ask if you could um describe some of the variances from the prior year to the current budgeted year in addition to the budget projections for next year okay so you're looking at the budgeted for 23 the budget and then the budgeted to 24 that variance is what you're asking about yes please okay um I know that with the bium I believe our state funding changed from my understanding I wasn't here in 23 so I I when this budget came into
play so I don't know the whole history behind how those numbers came in came to us but I do believe that the idea with athletic funding from the state was they were trying to get us back to pre to our pre-co levels because we did hit we did have a hit when Co happened on what the funding from the state was to us so that would be the variance increase from FY 23 to FY 24 um and then on the student fees our student fees are all based on enrollment numbers on undergrad I believe I have the I could
get you the breakdown on that but it would all depend on what enrollment numbers are that we are projected for would determine what our budget is looking at each year for um fee Revenue so those change from year to year based on the projected enrollment status of the University okay out of this is purely out of just curiosity which sport is providing the majority of the revenue to offset some of the other other sports that don't and are not producing uh a revenue that beneficial to the athletic
department football and basketball one football has the most seats at a game to sell our tickets to and those kind of things so football would be your primary basketball would be your number two and a lot of that has to do with attendance and and things along that line compared to your other sports excellent gentlemen thank you thank you thank you Regent Goodman hi uh listen I love I love Athletics I'm a you know my Glory Days High School athlete but um I so I just have a couple questions the s
upplemental like I'm I I I had the wrong document the supplemental uh when we look at projected there's extra millions in there where where did those just I mean do you see do you see what I mean like there was there was an initial document that was given and like six million short and 5 million short and we Rec we we we went back and relooked at at what we had and did not necessarily account appropriately for uh schedule like like last year we got 1.8 million from by going in plane at Michigan
okay we've got 1.45 coming up okay I get it so those are the numbers that's great and then adding Syracuse to the to a home game increases our revenues and also increases our season ticket sales too because there will be some people from Syracuse similar to Iowa state that will buy season tickets to guarantee themselves a ticket in the arena that's great news thank you go Rebels thank you I do have a few questions for you um some of it kind of goes in line with what's already been said but there
the um almost $10 million deficit for for year uh 2023 um it does look concerning I don't know um I'm looking at at page 25 um but you do you do show uh that you're in in the black for for uh 2024 and and then basically going forward although the numbers are are pretty tight do you have reserves that this came out of or how how did you cover this this uh deficit part of it uh unfortunately we did make a coaching change a year ago and so we had Severance payments and in one respect we were payin
g two coaching staff donor funds will will be coming in to support that and then the waterfall payment from the uh Las Vegas Stadium Authority is just now hitting the books because uh unbeknownst to us in the year that we missed the five million do by playing at Allegiance Stadium the waterfall payment does not come until the subsequent fiscal year for us so that doesn't show up and it will show up this year and then we had a a a uh a double count on priority uh priority in uh in in the past pri
ority was considered a donation but when the when the tax laws changed then it was no longer considered a donation just this past year we combined all of the priority and ticket cost into one we unfortunately uh we counted that double in the Years uh last year we counted that double in the budget so now we're we're with the launch of the rubble up campaign those numbers will be taken care of at that point in time okay um for for clarification I I hope we can explain this here based on on what yo
u just said can you give a a brief overview of what the waterfall payment is for for those who Okay were notar the when the the stadium Authority uh when the stadium was built and unlb was termed to play there and we did not uh have any more events at s Boyd the number came down to average of $5 million so if our revenues minus expenses at Allegiance Stadium do not meet $5 million the waterfall payment of the difference up to $3.5 million will be provided to us from the stadium Authority from th
e reserve to Stadium Authority for instance last year we were we were 1.9 differential and that's all because of attendance at the end of the day uh so that that 1.9 the five million minus the 1 Point well minus the 3.1 will give us the $5 million and then that will go into our budget thank you I I do have just a well oh okay go ahead please thank you chair Carval because I remember when this contract was negotiated so if I remember right this waterfall payment only goes for is it 10 years on th
e contract does anybody remember that uh I believe it's 15 since we're not sure can we get that information because there's a considerable cost difference going from samboy to Allegient and correct I'm looking at the numbers two and wondering if this is all sustainable is a considerable cost difference yes sure thank you for that clarification um I do have some other questions regarding uh Regent Brown's uh questions regarding uh the foundations are those foundations uh do their funds get report
ed to the board or they're under third party funds okay on the uh on the uh report annual report but they are they have to submit an audit to the F to the unov foundation uh per the rules of the unov foundation annually so those are reported in the under donor third party funds okay thank you for that um and my last um this is more of a a comment than a question but um and I've spoken to president Whitfield about this before nil is is just I know it's the w Wild West and there's just so much hap
pening and it changes all of the all the time I really think it's important for for more information to come before the board especially since in in the report um you you mentioned nil there are um some comments regarding nil from NCAA in the report and I I think it would be very helpful for for the board to understand that it's it's a very Athletics is a very important part of our institutions nil is going to be a a very big part of that as well um but I appreciate the the report um and uh I I
think I I feel like your your projections for your budget are are very conservative I hope that that you that we can with the momentum that especially football has right now that that your your budget will be blown out of the water is what I hope so I I appreciate your report are there any other questions for Mr Harper one more question for Marina sure region AIS Scotta and I'm gonna I'm gonna ride your coils with those statements uh chair carvalo um ad Harper what is your tenants how is it tren
ding for each of the sports uh football trended up of course over the course of the Season uh our our single game revenues in football this year uh in ticket wise was just over a million dollars uh in the previous year was right around 700,000 uh basketball right now is trending up our crowd has gone uh two weeks ago it was at 90 we are at 9500 uh the next game was on a unfortunately on a on a Tuesday so it was 8500 uh but uh we are continuously and Lady Rebel basketball just the other night uh
had close to 1500 uh in the crowd so we continueing to Trend up in a way that will uh allow us not only on the on the ticket side but also on the concession side as well uh and we've had the the very uh unique and not always opportunity this year to in in basketball to have double headers so our our women Our Lady Rebels have played in Thomas and Mack on a couple of occasions and then an hour later our men have played and also our women have played also due to TV issues have played in the in the
Cox Pavilion which they will play on this Saturday and then the men will be playing in the Thomas and Max Center for both of which are senior night and then also our football coach will be riding a bow over at South Point to generate additional revenues for the for the program that's awesome um and on a side note congratulations on the GPA the cative GPA for athletics that is a strong Kudo and strong representation by yourself and the Academia support staff then which you have thank you very mu
ch Regent McMichael yes uh motion to approve uh Regent McMichael I was hoping to take all of them in in one motion if that's okay okay all right um but we haven't heard the others um uh is is there actually a need to hear the others when we've already gone over the reports and have uh the information pertinent to each of these unless there's uh uh individuals who object to the fees I would like to go ahead and proceed and take all of them at once and uh give the motion for approval well since we
don't these reports come to the board as part of policy um I I think it's important for uh for us to give each of the Athletics departments uh the the time to to present their um their information I so I think that it's it's important for for us to hear what they have to say I I will um ask Mr Wixom to also comment uh thank you Michael wixon for the record uh chair and Regent M Michael technically the other reports have not yet been presented to the board because they aren't before the board ye
t so it's not possible to present a motion to approve the report that has not yet been given and so from an overall perspective if it's within the chair's discretion to accept individual motions to accept each each individual reported to accept them as as an entirety as an aggregate but it would be under Robert Rules of Order inappropriate to to bring a motion to a appr a report that has not technically been presented and so until the others present then it wouldn't be appropriate to move to app
rove them all right then I withdraw my motion thank you um next we'll go to you and our president sandal good morning Madam chair Mr Vice chair members of the board of regions Chancellor Charlton for the record Brian sandal president of the University of Nevada Reno um first and foremost I want to thank you all all of you who have taken the time to attend our events um our athletic events on our campuses we we're very grateful for it for that attendance as well as um seeing the importance of the
exposure to our community our our region and our national exposure associated with our athletic teams very proud of our student athletes and our coaches who do a wonderful job very proud of um athletic director Stephanie RM and her staff she's done a wonderful job and with that I'd like to introduce Stephanie RM the athletic director ctor at the University of Nevada Rino thank you president sandal good morning Stephanie RM the University of Nevada uh athletic director for the record so I uh wan
ted to start with the priorities and so there's a list of priorities that we focus on as a department and it's obviously the student athlete experience first and foremost in addition we want to develop and grow relationships on our campus TR make sure we are creating a transparent um environment with our Campus Community and our athletic department it's critical that we support our coaches we invest in the community as an entire athletic department we are always focused on philanthropy our facil
ity projects both maintenance and capital projects are a huge priority for us we want to enhance the game day experience we want to invest in our personnel and we want to invest in student athlete focused positions so those were some of the driving um priorities for us this past year so some of the highlights that we have um our GPA from the fall of 2022 was a 3.13 as a department in the spring it was a 3.17 and we finished uh last spring with 18 straight semesters of over a 3.0 student athlete
GPA and we're very proud of that and had another one this past fall as 19 straight we had 140 student athletes receive Mountain West scholar athlete of the Year Awards which is a 3 5 or better our graduation success rate was an 89% and we had 76 student athletes graduate last year we completed over 2200 hours of community service we had several of our teams receive updated or renovated locker rooms women's swim and dive um men's and women's golf men's and women's tennis women's track men's cross
country softball football and our ski program all now have much upgraded locker rooms and we're very proud of that we broke ground for the Eric and Linda lanta's basketball building which is a locker room uh facility for both of our teams we completed the celle Fieldhouse project that was several of those locker rooms as well as an equipment room we renovated the track and our turf on Ma in Macky Stadium we also partnered with the Reno Sparks Convention of visitors a bureau uh for a state-of-th
e-art indoor track facility that will be able to host home meets this this next um indoor track season host championships and our team will be able to to train there which is a a huge positive for us we returned um the ski program I don't know if I said that last year was over the transition it was the summer of 2022 we added skiing back as a division one program our men's basketball team returned to the NCA tournament last year for the first time since 2019 and uh hopefully we'll we'll continue
that again this year women's track and field finished the season with three SE three School records and two Conference champions softball last last spring recorded a 30- win season which was the first time since 2017 and we had several new coaches that we hired over the last year in addition Joel and Courtney bonio uh Joel bonio is a a current NFL player um he and Courtney donated a million dollars for our um football weight room and in addition last year raised um more than $7 million philanth
ropically and looking to to um improve that even more this year so with that it completes my report I'm happy to answer any questions thank you questions from regions I don't see that we have any so thank you so much for for your presentation today athletic director Rim so Carval oh I'm sorry region Eris Scotta please no that's not a problem only because it's equal opportunity up here I want to make sure that um directly um excuse me ad ramp um on the budget to actuals please subcribe the varian
ces from the prior year to the budget year in addition to the budget projections um and actuals please I'm looking on page I believe that's 12 okay um happy to do that I'm actually gonna um have Matt Smith our CFO come up and address those specific questions excellent thank you this Matt Smith associate ad for business and finance University of Nevada Reno for the record so if you actually look at page uh 20 uh five of the report it provides more details relates to the variances between um the b
udget and actual more on a line by line basis which gives a little bit better uh discretion as far as what what those changes make up for and it also includes the tuition and fee waiver amount which is about $3 million which would be the difference from that you were seeing on page 12 and then if you just go through different lines one big area when you look at a budgeted expense amount at least how we do it within our system is we're not going to include anything that we expect to be covered by
fundraising budgeted on an a specific expense line where we may receive donations so that our team may take a certain trip or participate in certain things or make purchase a new uniform where donor funds will come in and cover those items but it's not going to be part of the budgeted uh line item for on an expense side but when we report the actual expenses the expense of buying those uniforms or taking those trips are going to show up which is going to cause some variances that were for the m
ost part then covered by donor funding specifically excellent thank you and one last question I'm going to present this to both y'all uh what are the top sports that are bringing in the majority of the revenue in order to um assist the other low Revenue Sports so uh youit will be answered this question very similarly but uh men's basketball and football are the two of the main driving Revenue sources for it a lot of that is determined by the capacity of those venues and the demand for tickets in
those events and then also the way it works from a uh Revenue dist distribution standpoint from our conference which is predicated based on us participating in football receiving money from the conference for broadcast of those games then also the college football playoff that was a big one and last one this is on a purely selfish note both athletic departments I want to give strong kudos to the upcoming football schedules your home schedules are extremely impressive and AD Harper I will be tra
veling down there for a game thank you thank you I have a regent or a a question from Regent Brown uh thank you Regent Brown for the record um I seem to recall from our December meeting um that you guys didn't have external foundations but I wanted to one clarify that and two if you do is it similar setup that we saw down here at UNLV uh we do not have external foundations thank you for that clarification thank you seeing no other questions or comments I will move on to oh I'm sorry Regent boand
thank you uh thank you madam chair uh if can I ask a general question of all the heads of the Athletics right now like is that the right time to ask a question um I I suppose so it might be better after we've gone through all of them but if yes ma'am all right I'll go ahead thank you okay then we'll move on to CSN president zaragosa Madame chair regions Chancellor colleagues and guests here to present uh the CSN annual Athletics report is our athletic director Ivan Wade Ivon it's all yours is t
his on thank you uh Regent chair carvalo and and regions uh I'm very honored to be here as you know this I'm eight months into this gig and so I'm very blessed for the opportunity to take what former athletic director Dexter Irvin has built um currently we're at 10 sports and 220 Plus student athletes um and we're very proud of what what they've done and what Dexter Iran has built so far so I'm very blessed and honored to take over um this year we're committed to providing opportunity for our lo
cal high school students to have a place in southern Nevada to pursue higher education while competing in the sports they love and assist them and transitioning on um to the next level and hopefully to become a rebel or uh part of the wolf pack um 80% of our student athletes come right come from right here in our local backyards and with addition of sports like basketball and soccer and other Sports in the recent years we've advancing the mission of the college to encourage a college-going cultu
re and provide opportunities for underserved communities in our group many of them are first generation we are very proud of that our student athletes have W of the most successful carts on campus who enroll full-time Excel academically graduate and transfer on last year we had six teams above the 3.0 GPA and unlike the other schools our men actually are leading the way last year men's cross country where was at a 3.64 baseball was at a 3 um five and real proud moment for the baseball team 100%
of their sophomores transferred on to four-year College colleges so we really proud of that that team as well um some things that we're really additional things that we're really proud of our student athletes commitment to giving back in the community last year we clocked over 30,900 community service hours um which include um opportunities like Opportunity Village just one project three square and more they're they compete against each other so it's a really cool you know scenario for our stude
nt athletes to be out there in the community last spring we were able to work and revamp a strategic plan to make sure that we were in alignment with the college's plans and we created five goals five tiers um that we're going to focus on moving forward the first is student athlete development the second athletic Excellence the third campus and Community engagement four financial performance and five compliance and integrity um two years ago 2022 we started uh a program called score um with the
brainchild it was a brainchild of Mayor Goodman um she had issues and concerns with the quality of our officials here in southern Nevada um and I think Dr Z uh came to Dexter Irving at that time and we launched the score program we were just on fax 5 news last tonight so if you can have opportunity to watch that please do but um at that time in 2022 Southern Nevada officials had 670 some odd officials here in town with the increase of population and teams and kids and youth coming in there was a
big need and a big shortage of officials here and so we were charged of charged with increasing those numbers by 10% 60 or so we were able to add 300 plus officials in year one and we are on track to do that again this year so there is no shortage anymore and as more and more Youth and high schools and junior high schools are built and those youth teams are are coming in we are able to provide those uh spaces for officials to go um let's see our most press um preacher considerations actually um
you know we're want to see where we're you know as I'm learning this role really want to see where we fit in with the CSN Vision as a whole I think Athletics provides a great space of front porch if you will to the college um it will improve enrollment for the college um so we want to really work with campus leadership to see where the coyotes fit in Into the Future Vision of uh CSN um I think we have great opportunities moving forward for curriculum for engagement for retention and we want to
play a big role in that with the college um another thing we want to consider is kind of co-mingling our a staff we are a very small staff department and coing those roles with other campus um positions so that we can keep and retain really good coaches and and staff at CSN our most pressing challenge um currently obviously is our budget with increased number of student athletes um travel expenses um you know our budget is going to be very difficult to sustain so we have to be creative and Innov
ative in ways that we can bring in those dos to support what we're doing for our our students from this community um on a side note I just want to praise our we just came from basketball last night and our our women's basketball who were 25 and four um you know is Just Praise to what we do at CSN you know they're young women no scholarships great coaching great academic advising their AC academics are over 3.0 and we're winning just like the other women basketball players in this town so I'm rea
lly excited that CSN is a part of that um that we can continue that vision and that mission um and without anything else to say if I'll take questions yeah thank you yes Regent Brown thank you Regent Brown for the record I am looking on page 23 and looking at operating revenues operating expenditures so last month we approved changing uh the district that you guys played in and we uh acknowledge that there'd be about a $60,000 uh leftover you know savings um looking at this is this is that $60,0
00 going to be reinvested back into the athletic program to improve certain areas or is that covering a deficit um right now I think we're covering a deficit to be honest um you know our our charge is to always improve our you know our situation and make a better experience for our student athletes but we are in a deficit um so we'll be meeting this spring to kind of see where we go moving forward with our budgets and what we can do the change from region um 18 to region one um it actually will
be more than $660,000 because region 18 has increase the number of sports and the distances for travel for our teams um so uh that change and those the shortness of travel time on the road need for hotels is going to be significantly uh improved and so uh you know those dollars are going to kind of feed the deficit going forward but hopefully that we can find new avenues to to fund uh what we're trying to do at CSN I appreciate that and we'll definitely um keep an eye out because I think this is
a smart financial decision obviously and we we covered in the last meeting it's good for the students good for the University good for the community um and so hope hope F over the next couple years we'll see that um starting to give you a little bit more padding so we can in reinvest in the department thank you thank you thank you seeing no other questions I just want to say thank you athletic director Wade for what you do thank you uh next is president hilgerson at TMCC good morning Regents Ch
ancellor colleagues it is my great pleasure to introduce the TMCC athletic director Jeff Hawk Jeff has done a great job and we had we've had some really uh good successes and I'm I'm delighted that he is here today to talk about what has been a successful year Jeff good morning Chancellor Charlton chair cavalo regions and members of the board my name is Jeff Hawkins I'm the director of Fitness Wellness and Athletics at trucky Meadows Community College today I'm honored to be here to present our
annual Athletics report for fiscal year 2023 with me today is Mike Pearl our vice president of Financial and government relations as you all know we have a young history at TMCC Athletics we first broke ground in 2018 on our Athletics field and our inaugural season was 2019 since that time we've had four very successful Seasons both on the field and in the classroom all the way we've been leading the way in diversity gender equity and inclusion with regard to fiscal year 2023 we've had five majo
r objectives number one was to recruit 80% of our student athletes from local Nevada communities number two was to increase access for first generation student athletes number three was to maintain or improve our academic success and persistence rates number four was to continue our philanthropic work in the community and number five was to increase our branding and media EXP exposure I'm very proud as I stand here today to say that we've accomplished all five of those objectives in addition to
those objectives we hold three object eni objectives of imp Paramount importance that is one Student Success two athletic support and three student access with regard to Student Success at TMCC it is a direct reflection of our hard work of the student services division academic advisement disability Resource Center the coaches and of course the student athletes themselves we take a four-pronged approach to Student Success number one is academic Support Services two is academic focused policies s
uch as misclass policies travel policies playing time policies we always keep a close eye on our analytics for academic success rates and of course degrees awarded in fiscal year 2023 although we were heavy on freshmen we still graduated 18 student athletes with associate degrees and skill certificates in addition we had commendable GPA and 51 declared degrees with regard to the N objective of athletic support we provide mandatory study hall tutoring Home Room progress reports mentors and Liaiso
ns all of these help navigate our student athletes through their academic path I must mention two individuals in particular Tara Conley who was our our lead academic adviser and also Dr Olga MSA who helps with Home Room which is a college skills course as well as Counseling Services we really appreciate their efforts and helping our student athletes achieve the successes that they've had number the third student excuse me the third n she objective is student access we are proud to report that we
have 90% local Nevada residents as our student athlete population in addition we increased our first gener generation students and those with no other opportunities we always keep an eye on diversity inclusion and gender Equity we recruit those athletes with a broad range of interests and of course we always look for those athletes with the traits that will become leaders and ambassadors to our local communities the year's highlights of fiscal year 23 start with our onfield performances both te
ams accumulated new records for wins in both the scenic West athletic conference as well as preseason winning records I must highlight our women's team here for the first time ever they qualified for the prestigious NJCAA region tournament and although they lost in the semi-finals to the eventual runnerup of the national championship their their accomplishment in a young program has to be recognized they truly were both teams to stand out in the Sierra Nevada region in addition to their onfield
accomplishments they received numerous awards first we had four players that received first team All Region Awards we had numerous academic awards from our conference and for the first time ever we had four student athletes named to National academic All-American teams finally we had commendable GPA and I would be remiss not to mention our women's team which continued its multi-year streak with Team cumulative GPA above 3.0 perhaps my most perhaps my favorite highlight of fiscal year 202 3 and c
losest to my heart was the development of our youth soccer camps these camps increase the visibility and reputation of the soccer program generated revenue for our athletic department for equipment operation and facility enhancements but perhaps most important it built relationships and camaraderie amongst the local community with regard to our financials of 2023 as with most athletic programs we are funded by three basic sources student fees departmental fundraising and institutional support cu
rrently our program provides access for 50 to 60 full-time student athletes we have submitted along with this report detailed Financial metrics but what must be highlighted is that each year at TMCC we have maintained a positive fiscal balance other highlights include our philanthropic work we continue to it continues to be a primary focus of our programs and a source of Pride for TMCC we love to give back to the community a few of our favorite partners are food banks of Northern Nevada the waso
County School District Rave which cares for families with special needs Northern Nevada animal shelters and of course the Eddy house which works with the homeless and at risk youth and no report would be complete without a review of compliance I'm proud to report again we are 100% fully compliant in F school year 2023 we didn't have one major violation not one minor violation not even a missing piece of paper and we have no one to thank more than our compliance officer arites ELO Cur for this e
xcellent service that he's provided us as we move into the future we will endeavor to constantly improve our program and enhance the many objectives where we need Improvement in an effort to continually improve strategies and develop to address the needs and remedies of the program we constantly reflect with regard to moving to the Future in fiscal year 2024 We Set four primary objectives and one objective for fun first we want to improve our medical our Sports Medicine equipment and services to
build a grants and scholarship program to develop and Implement a fundraising campaign and to continue the growth and development of our marketing campaigns and of course I mentioned one for fun and that is what we've now termed the tailgate where it's a campus-wide community event to play our arch rival CSN and we encourage everybody to come out for our little rival indeed TMCC will continue to ensure that their two soccer programs continue with their strong academic performance and and athlet
ic performance on the field what remains important is that REM is that they remain an integral part of our TMC student life and the Northern Nevada Community we are proud of our little program and we believe the future is mighty and bright this concludes my presentation of our annual athletic report thank you Chancellor thank you chair Regents and members of the board thank you I have a question from Regent Del Carlo thank you and um nice report and I think it was 2018 when the board approved TM
CC at Athletics was that right I think it was 2017 and we broke ground in 2018 on our Athletics field okay okay um because I know most of us weren't on the board then and I I I bring this up because the students it was a student L petition that did this and I remember it was David that had the the mustache and um I just remember the mustache but the students really wanted it and the students stepped up and and asked us to charge them $5 more per credit with $450 going to it was the facility buil
d out right and then the 50 cents was for operations that is correct so it was not a unanimous vote on this board and there was quite a lot of discussion because we know Athletics is expensive absolutely and that's been the concern so um I'm all for it I thought it was wonderful I think it's great for the students it hopefully it's been a retainer for I know the kids are going up to uh Lake Tahoe Community College rather than going to TMCC have you stemmed that flow and I'm getting to my questio
n in a minute we we absolutely have so we we do recruit against Lake Tahoe Community College on a regular basis but I think there unfortunately for them yes we do retain probably at least 80% of our local athletes there are a few that we still lose but I'm happy to say that we keep most of them home and it makes Financial sense and um we provide a great program and great competition so um it's I think for most of the athletes um it's a no-brainer for them to come to our program okay I'm on page
on slide s and I know when you start something new there's lots of excitement for it I'm looking at the categories donor Dash Foundation funds a fiscal year 32,990 was raised and then of course in 20 we know the the um we had Co hit but you still had a it went up a little bit but then since then it's really G gone down and I'm concerned that it's only 3,540 in in fiscal year 23 and I know I joined in fiscal year 19 whatever your program was I joined I was happy to join but I don't I never got a
renewal and I don't I don't think to renew it unless they send it to me like UNR is really good about sending me stuff and I've been a booster for 253 years there so certainly the for example the donations gifts and kinds they did they did go down and it was a a large portion of the pandemic right some of the businesses had to tighten up um we are renewing what is known as the mighty lizards club and you will be getting a a letter probably with within the next week or two it's already been draft
ed we're putting the graphics on it uh to renew our donations and funds uh you will notice that you know fiscal year 21 and 22 were a little bit light but we've bounced back in fiscal year 23 um of this report we had from the donations and funds yes it's still a little bit light but we did have big donations gifts in kind of $115,000 which brought us back up and you'll be happy when I come back to report on fiscal year 24 as it continues to rise okay yeah just um you got to I know you got to mar
k it you you just got to have to so thank you thank you thank you regen breaker I just wanted to um say thank you so much for doing your youth summer camps that is impressive and I haven't heard that anywhere else but but what a difference that has to make within the community and I know you're you know a rural community sometimes that's maybe a little bit easier to do without the competition we have here excuse me in the valley um about how many do your students work alongside whoever does that
program yes so we do have it's a it's very important to the to the campers right that these these players these student athletes are role models to them so we always have them along with our coaches we always have Camp counselors that are student athletes and it's a combination of payment uh a lot of them are working off their promised scholarship um donation hour so it's a combination there and that's how we fund that and and you know like I said it's a big deal for the Youth campers because t
hey get to see what they're achieving what they're aspiring to and and believe it or not in a smaller Community like ours that this really gives back to the community creates bonds relationships they start coming to our games we saw a significant increase in attendance after we did youth camps and it's also very nice to see them running around town with their little TMCC soccer camps and it's a great way of branding and we have some fantastic pictures I know a couple of them uh are in here as we
ll but those are those kind of melt your heart so right thank you for doing that it's quite impressive thank you thank you regioner Scotta thank you chair carvalo um last year I can proudly say that myself and and my son attended two of the lizard soccer games um opening game opening season and the I guess the the rally beforehand that was wonderful uh strong kudos to you yourself and and the entire TMCC lizard Community um my question uh to you and I'm going to actually steal the question from
the uh paperwork that was just provided by CSN regarding their minimum credit load for a two-year graduation does TMCC student athletes still require that also absolutely so part of the requirements of compliance is they have to take a minimum of of 12 units to be full-time we encourage our students not only to be at 15 but also 16 and 17 to ensure that they're meeting the 60 uh on average I should say the 60 to 66 credits to achieve their AA and as's excellent and my to my son he also ran aroun
d with the lizard shirt for quite a while right chartreuse green you could not miss him so thank you well we hope to see him back uh we have three new sessions this year there's going to be a half day and full day option so please send them and and we'll we'll be happy to entertain them thank you next I'll go to region boand next okay thank you chair appreciate that just uh uh something to say to you but after that then I'll ask the question I talked about is that okay chair all right because th
at's for everybody when you say soccer which is actually the real football cuz you play it with your feet and you don't grab it in your hand and run so the real football and then you mention also helping animal uh sanctuaries or what what was that you said animal shelters animal shelters I love it you've got my ears and my support totally if you mention those two things there's a few other things I want I can't mention them here but those two outstanding work you're doing after this I'm going to
ask the question of all the directors the one simple question thank you ma'am and this is for all the directors of uh uh Sports and it's based on uh safety especially safety of the women athletes my question is it's all over the country schools colleges universities how many or do we have any men masquerading as women playing in any of our teams and hurting any of the women do we have that issue here in entry anybody yeah sorry Regent I don't know let's let's take this as a hypothetical if in f
act we did I would not be able to divulge that you could not okay and that's also for the rest of the directors or presidents cuz that's an important thing and female athletes are getting hurt so it's important to know we don't have any records we don't keep why don't we keep those records anybody it should be something I think it's a disclosure and privacy issue and we would need we're not allowed to disclose any sort of that private information when it comes to those things oh okay thank you a
ny other directors of uh if I may Michael wixon for the record I think what you're asking them to disclose would be a violation of federal law and so I I don't think they can make those disclosures so I I think if if your if your question is about transgender athletes oh that's the term yes okay okay then that needs to be agendized separately and addressed separately but the disclosure you're asking them to make they cannot make even to say how many athletes you might no they cannot make it beca
use it's a matter of privacy and and the individuals involved are entitled to privacy so if if you wish to discuss this matter on a separately agendized item you surely may but I'm going to direct the athletic directors to not respond because to the extent that they do they would be in violation of federal law and also I'm guessing they don't have that information okay because if they had the information they would be in violation of federal law all right thanks Mr wixon appreciate it thank you
folks regen Brown no okay um so at this time I don't see any other questions oh I'm sorry Regent McMichael I guess my question goes out to all the athletic directors uh I'm just curious with all of these worldclass students going through these uh uh atic programs have we had any uh students participating in Olympic trials well I can answer that from uh just in general and athletic director position and in fact I used to be a coach at uh CSN believe it or not and they had a a student named lyanna
soy fua who competed in the oceanic Olympics uh not just in the past but also this recent year as a matter of three weeks ago for qualifying FIFA rounds and she actually was her uh captain of her team so to answer that not teamcc yet yet but uh CSN in fact with their women's soccer program has had an Olympic Athlete for Samoa and she was the the captain of her team this last year okay uh any of the other directors had any uh students inquire and participate in Olympic trials uh yes um previous
to being at CSN I was I had the privilege of being the head track and field coach at UNLV and we developed quite a few Olympians and Olympic trial competitors um currently uh I have two sprinters uh that were under my Helm at unlb that are on the bob sled Olympic bob sled team for us and so they they like how our sprinters come out the blocks and they can push those things down the slippery ice pretty well so uh they came out and recruited and now I have two that are US Olympic blob SL teams We
Had A Hammer thrower that was out of Silverado High School uh that went to the Olympics and was American record holder we had a coach that was in the Olympics um I was in the Olympics twice um and so it it can be done and it will be done we also have Bryce Harper who is in the you know a professional baseball player that's a very famous CSN coyote so they're there and we're we're building more thank you Eric Harper UNLV for the record uh we've had some in swimming and in just to on top of what U
men's and women swimming and on top of what uh Miss Wade said we the the young ladies in track and field that are participa on the Bob slit team thank you I'll I'll just see if uh ad RM wants to chime in on that as well uh we've had some success with our swim and dive program including our diving coach representing um as a coach on the diving program thank you did you want to say something else Regent Del Carlo thank you chair Carval yes I just just want to say that the the student that um athl
etic director EMP is referring to also started at Western Nevada Community College and got her associate there and then transferred and she did get a bronze medal in the last Olympics and she is um training for the next Olympics next year which is really exciting great thank you so um in answer to your question Regent McMichael it sounds like we've got quite a few um Olympians in in our midst so uh very proud of that as a Nevada and and and uh and and a regent as well um I don't see any other oh
I do uh regen Cruz CRA Crawford regen Cruz Crawford for the record thank you so much um for your reports I'm just really impressed with the graduation rates and um you know as a as a first generation college student myself I know this is an access point and I I appreciate that um I did notice that there was a high percentage of Undeclared I think I saw it at um UNLV but any other institutions that want to chime in is there any additional mentorship that our student athletes get just based on um
the the level of physical and mental um scrutiny that they have to undergo um as well as being a full-time student and athlete well I can answer for TMCC uh I can tell you that we have mandatory academic advisement meetings uh bonly uh so they're constantly meeting with their academic advisors we also have mentors in place to talk to them about uh career Pursuits what path may be appropriate for them and of course we always talk about how we can give back to the community as Community leaders a
nd things like when we talk about our youth camps how how young children look up to them and how they need to behave on and off the field so we have quite a few uh for us we had 51 and 53 declared majors in fiscal year 2020 three uh there were two Undeclared and usually that just relates to maybe they're just not sure what their their career path is yet and they're still exploring yeah um at CSN we're definitely um providing those spaces for our our student athletes to to seek those Services we
work well with our caps Department um on our staff we have academic advisors we have counselors who who are invested in our student athletes 100% And we can't get them out of our offices they they come and hang out with us and um we definitely provide a space where we can mentor them um and provide a safe great experience through the two years or three years that they're here and and help them transfer on for sure uh Eric Harper for the record UNLV uh we also have uh a lot of our student athlete
s once they get on campus and determine where they what they want to study but on the the other side we have a mentorship program within our Career Development and career life skills program led by associate athletic director mallerie p and her assistant keante uh gains they work with all of our student athletes from a mentor perspective and we actually have two and a half uh uh FTE on Mental Health within our athletic department we also use last caps on campus uh when in the future hope to add
more on the mental health side and we also work with helinski hope which is a national uh student athlete mental help uh space that we uh that we utilize as well and we also get some support from a mount West Conference office in that space thank you um Regent Goodman thank you and this is for all of you as well I'm completely in support of what you're doing it's just really incredible and I just feel like sports is such an important piece of um of students and and just growing up and and I I'm
I'm a big Sports Advocate I'm also a big Sports advocate of women's sports and I didn't know if there is a policy within n um or within your varied institutions where you do require that only biological women play women's sports I don't know sorry this has obviously become a national issue um what I would say is what the NCAA right division one division two NCAA their policy which njca normally follows so they allow NCA to make the ruling njca will follow suit currently the nca's policy is that
they're going to allow the governing Sports to determine any and all regulations regarding that issue um so for example for US soccer would fall to US soccer Federation to determine those and then the NCA would follow those and and by there the NJCAA would follow those rules and then implement it and because they're our governing Association we would be expected to follow those hopefully that answer your question we would be in a similar space but at the same time we don't ask the question yeah
same here we would be also in the similar space thank you so seeing no other questions I'll entertain a motion um to accept um each of these uh institutions athletic reports motion to approve thank you I have a motion from Regent McMichael is there a second second Regent a second from region breaker all those in favor please say I I I opposed that motion carries thank you so much to each of the athletic directors [Applause] we'll now move on to item number 21 which is 2025 2027 banal operating b
udgets 2025 Capital Improvement projects and for this I see that um CFO Vuitton is at the podium chair Carval if you don't mind if I could just give some introductory comments so um first want to thank the board for the time today uh to be able to um communicate uh information that our office and our team has been working with the institutions on in gathering priorities for the 2025 session um as you might recall on January 26th I provided to the board uh the policy framework for governor Lombar
do um which was sent out to us about at that same time and so uh as we move forward in our process and building our 2025 legislative requests we will be aligning and need to align um the priorities of the board and uh the institutions within that framework uh for consideration to the governor's recommended budget and so with that I know that uh Chris is going to be um talking about that and then also um he'll provide some overview and then we're going to kick it over to the Presidents for them t
o speak specifically about their institution needs thank you so much thank you Chancellor and thank you for that introduction CFO Vuitton uh carvalo and regions Chris Von t uh Chief Financial Officer for the system um I know we have a presentation is it are there thank you can you move your microphone just a little bit closer there you go thank you thank you how's that okay um topics for today I know if you've noticed in the materials there's quite a few slides uh there's only about 15 or seven
so that are mine I will get through those rather quickly and as the chancellor mentioned then we'll hand it off to the Presidents to hear their priorities so we'll walk through a little overview of our framework for the for this banial Cycles budget preparation uh and then I'll also take a step back and walk through the kind of the starting point being the 2023 legislatively approved budgets um I know I mentioned and we we did do a little overview in the at your January special meeting with some
where we shared some uh risks to look forward to in the next session we'll review those again today then then um we'll we'll go through the summary of the highlevel systemwide priorities that we identified from our campus visits um and and then again turn over to the campuses for their for their uh presentations shared this timeline with you in the January meeting and just to to review it again um in January the first two weeks of January we spent uh half a day with each of the institutions uh
going through and hearing from them uh their uh priorities for the next session um today we we have brought those uh uh common themes together to present to you as system priorities and to hear uh your feedback on those um as we go uh next week March 6th uh the chancellor myself and our budget director will be in Carson City for the State's budget work uh kickoff Workshop so we'll hear there uh the first direction from this from the governor's finance office on the banial cycle uh process so we'
ll we'll get a better sense there of what uh to expect our starting point and direction to be um and then you'll see the remainder as I mentioned uh in January there's quite a heavy schedule through the through the summer leading into the fall um when we'll when we'll last step being an August special meeting to have your uh your uh approval and recommendation for the systems uh budget request to to move forward for the next session I will uh take a step back there though I mentioned at at this
meeting today we're presenting uh primarily operating priorities you will hear from the campuses their Capital priorities as well um but we do have a process that will be going through in April and May with the uh with the the campus business officers and president to prioritize the campus recommendation the campus request for Capital uh with the expectation we're bringing back to you a recommended prioritization at a at a meeting in hopefully May um in time for submitting that prioritization to
Public Works uh prior to June 1st so uh just that that uh also be coming up quickly on the schedule so just starting with a summary of the 2023 legislative approved bu buets um provided for you here a comparison of the uh second year of the last of the 2021 approved but uh uh general fund Appropriations for the system and comparing that to the 24 and 25 legislative approved general fund Appropriations um mentioned that these Appropriations do not include the cola funds which are separate so thi
s is just Apples to Apples the uh the general fund Appropriations before the 24 and the July 1st 23 July 1st 24 colas um and and also would note that while that increase looks significant from 23 to 24 the majority of that actually represents budget restoration the repl the restoration of the position funding that had been replaced with arpa funds and the restoration of the otherwise operating cuts that were part of last session's uh enhancements shared this with you also back in the January mee
ting but just uh to to uh keeping it uh together as we move forward with the with with the presentation these are these are all of the one-hot Appropriations that were included in the 23 session uh that are now in uh getting worked into campus budgets oneshot Appropriations are not part of the base budget so I've identified them here and we'll talk about them a little bit as the risk and you'll see them reflected again in the campus's priorities um with with concern for restoring or retaining as
many of these as possible um larger ones here uh nursing program the enrollment recovery um some some of the uh Statewide compensation related uh to retention and and service um and and a large one for the UNLV school of medicine so all of these are important to the campuses and again you'll hear about them in their presentations uh again today you'll hear about Capital uh recommendations from the campuses that will later prioritize this slide just summarizes for you those Capital Appropriation
s that were approved in the last session um rather there was not a building appropriation but a state with a systemwide $50 million uh deferred maintenance appropriation that was in addition to the normal uh HEC Shack uh U $15 million deferred maintenance appropriate ation so um we had one other non deferred maintenance project that was approved for drri in the last session so and we talked about these risks in January they are uh the the um those oneshot Appropriations again are important progr
ams to the campuses and because they're not part of the base budget there's concern about being able to continue those programs without those appr rations being renewed or otherwise Incorporated in the base budgets in addition to that uh the large uh the large item that'll affect not only eni but All State agencies obviously is the rooll forward um of the 2023 approved colas um and we'll see this on a later slide but again that that amount for en is about $384 million uh over the banum about alm
ost $200 million uh annually um there is another item that'll that'll hit All State agencies anticipating a uh 2% Pur contribution increase U which is based on an Actuarial analysis at the state level um and then of course we have the formula committee recommendations and the timing uh aligning with the completion of our work in preparing the uh the Bal budget request the chancellor mentioned the uh governor govern's priorities for the for the next three years and that that uh those priorities w
ere shared with us um these are six highlevel uh priority areas these priority areas are further detailed with about four in most cases four sub priority areas and and within those and another three as we go through uh the systems priorities you will see a connection very easily for many of our PRI many of the systems priorities to the governor's priorities as well and I'll I'll I try to highlight those for you as we go through so starting here uh again as we after after visiting the campuses in
January we came back and we we pulled together the information and tried to co combine uh requests into common themes not as you're well aware uh top priority for all campuses at this time uh campus safety and safety enhancements um the I know there was a mention uh at UNLV of 27 million for the police department that's actually part of just a campus request so it's included within this $50 million number that's systemwide and and primarily there we're talking about uh items uh in the facility
equipment and Technology areas so you've heard about locking mechanisms um uh 911 emergency uh uh telephone uh routing and uh emergency notification applications all those technology related uh tools and facility related enhancements uh so the the $50 million request is essentially onetime uh onetime needs and then there was uh additional Staffing and other uh recurring costs such as the maintenance on some of those Capital uh the facility enhancements and Technology enhancements that represents
about 26 20 6 million uh by annually again I mentioned uh the 24 and 25 colas being brought forward and rolled into uh base position budgets represents systemwide uh on the state funded positions about 368 million and uh continuing a top priority for the system returning the the state's uh budget approach for NG to funding 80% of colas when they're approved rather than the approach that's been taken over the past two bienniums uh where the colas are tied to the proportion of State funding in ou
r state budgets in the uh in the governor's priorities uh there's a there's there's emphasis on um education Workforce Health and Wellness and economic growth and development and these programs several of which were part of those one shots we talked about um but the medical residence also being an enhancement request you'll see in the in this year for the new bium uh are directly tied to the governor's priorities in fact the medical residen is listed specifically in um in uh in the health and we
llness initiative and and the economic development and uh and goed as well in in the economic growth and development initiative so um there's actually some call outs there in the in the governor's priorities directly tied to NG another common theme that we heard throughout the campuses and I think you hear it rather regularly in in our discussions at the at your meetings um concerns about uh food and housing insecurity and uh and addressing mental health um and graduate student support graduate
s in uh both levels and numbers of positions um so in addition to carrying forward on shots but also recognizing the need to continue to to grow in those areas uh here again I'm just calling out some of the um some of the one shot shs that that uh were award were approved last cycle that are expected or or high priority for renewal for the campuses I want to mention one correction here I when I pul pulled the information together from the campuses the prison expansion uh estimate from the campus
is is actually closer to $3 million uh not one so just a note about that correction and and that just to highlight that that is another another priority U for the system that is actually closely tied to the um to to the governor's recommendations in as a as a uh as an initiative to uh in in the uh I have I have all the initiatives for all of them down there and i' and I'm not recalling which one specifically it falls under but the governor's priorities do have several that are tied to uh prison
education and uh and opportunities to uh that directly tie to that n initiative um and there was also um sorry I'm just Lo lost my space there the the um several of these initiatives in tying them to the governor's priorities the their those priorities are closely uh are commonly looking for cross government collaboration and you can see that in in many of the uh systems priorities another another item that I know comes up often at your meetings so not surprising that it's uh it's raised as a p
riority by the campuses um is the unfunded mandates in the form of uh mandated fee waivers uh so we have here the current estimates I know that there's uh I think that we're still fairly early on in the Native American uh fee waiver changes that were introduced in the last session so while we have this estimate I think our current year uh our current year experience alone suggests this estimate is too low uh as a banial cost because we're already we're already seeing uh first year cost of the ne
w the new waiver of approximately $2 million for the system so I mentioned the uh and we're uh many of us in working directly on the highered funding committee um that that timing again is scheduled to end with recommendations coming out in the July time frame following the workshop there uh we do plan and expect to be able to see and and bring forward some modeling of uh any recommendations and that is uh we'll we'll be able to do that it'll be a tight timeline but in line with the uh bringing
forward the budget for final approval at your August meeting um we have next up on the uh coming up on the next Formula funding committee meeting a presentation from uh the the uh the Consultants that were engaged by the committee to to to uh provide some of the landscape um and and some information in particular around self-funded accounts uh so uh that's that's an item I think that's uh quite new for uh discussion around the budget cycle so again going back to some of the things that we'll be
working on um and and and trying to bring together those recommendations in this process as well I mentioned the the capital priorities just to give you some scale here you'll hear from all the presidents on their campuses but the total the total uh priorities that were discussed at the various campus meetings total to uh $700 million systemwide um we we do not have yet a uh estimate from the governor's office on what will be available for the banum again I think we'll hear that next week um but
certainly you know that that that is a significant number um so we'll we'll have a job to do prioritizing those uh requests and again we'll do we'll be taking that with the business officers and presidents over the next couple months and bring it back to you in May uh I've listed there the the considerations that were used last cycle we expect to use those again um will be ironing out that process next week with the business officers we're start kicking off that process then and and uh and we'l
l be working in Earnest over the next couple of months and I will stop there uh for questions and Regent breaker this is to you as chair how do you um from what he shared are we waiting till UNLV and each College gives their presentation or I've read the material so something you want us to wait on well I think it's important for each of the institutions to give their presentations as well okay but if you have if you have questions um for the the system level okay thank you any other questions f
or CFO Von oh yes region Parkins thank you madam chair just a comment I'm really happy to see that we're going to be asking for the fee waivers to be reimbursed to us because that is it grows every year and it gets exponential and it's very hard to budget for that without uh being funded for it um so I'm really happy to see that in the the report and also the prison F the prison um program which I saw firsthand the lives that it changes and um really appreciate that being like a priority chair c
arvalo if I might thanks for the record uh interim Chancellor Charlton so uh Regent Perkins also just to let you know that uh particularly as it pertains to fee waivers as part of the interim committee on education um that operates in the in between uh sessions there's also going to be a deep dive by that committee specifically on fee waivers and so they'll have another opportunity at that time too Regent Del Carlo thank you chair carvalo um hi Chris on slide number I think it's 11 recurring sta
ff maintenance and Licensing costs what do you mean by recurring staff who is who's that uh thank you chair Regent Del Carlo the all I mean by recurring there is that these would be permanent positions so the cost would be recurring annually U so the the distinction between the two bullets was just one one representing a onetime cost estimate versus a cost that would have to be built into budgets going forward so those are uh some primarily Public Safety positions but some other Public Safety su
pport positions as well thank you and one more question and the licensing cost is that like the licensing to use workday and those kinds of things same same area but this is licensing and uh maintenance costs for some of the things in the public in the safety enhance enhancement request so so costs of uh um the the cost associated with storage and and maintenance on uh surveillance equipment for example or or uh other vehicle maintenance things things of that nature it's it's the ongoing continu
ing cost associated with those things that would be uh put in place under the one-time costs okay and what about SCS is is that part of their budget or is that separate to them these are these are costs that will so there's infrastructure Public Safety infrastructure at the campus level that's generally put in place at the campus level and become becomes part of a maintenance expense at the campus um so sces may be involved to some degree to the extent Network Statewide network uh connectivity m
ay be an issue or if there's uh some coordination collaboration on a Statewide uh notification application things of that nature but but where it's campus facility infrastructure related or in in particular the public safety surveillance tends to be uh rather you know controlled through the through this the uh University Police commands so those those we see more as campus costs that need to be built into the budgets that are that are supporting those thank you thank you so next we'll move on to
UNLV president Whitfield do they need thank you chair Vice chair Regents for the record uh Keith Whitfield president of UNLV um I hate being the first one but um we've been asked to focus on just the CIP piece and so let me advance past our lovely presentation to get just to that slide all right so here is a list of our Capital uh Improvement projects that um we're asking for consideration number one is the Lee business school I think that that's um semi self-evident uh of why we would be inter
ested in that but actually even before the incident on 126 we were looking for uh ways in which we could think about building a new business uh building uh the goal of it would be to put it on the west side of Campus that would help to activate and really help help to Showcase that part of Campus um to better fully just think about our campuses as an Engaged space across the entire campus uh the next one is the College of Education and this is one that we've moved up for several reasons um in pa
rt uh thinking about what eni has as one of its priorities which is is to produce more teachers um we think that it is important to make sure that our uh school of education has a 21st century building it has a building arguably from the 70s um and it would provide the ability to be able to train more teachers teachers and to make sure that they are trained um in the best pedagogy possible and then third is our college of fine arts we've done some of the preliminary work on for the Fine Arts bui
lding and have some general uh ideas um but we would be looking to try to get uh state public works uh to be able to fund the planning that needs to be done and then ultimately for the building to be done in terms of deferred maintenance we have the baric museum at 4 million and the Thomas Max Center at 3.4 and just to note we are of course very supportive of the renewal of the systemwide ask for $50 million and deferred maintenance and with that chair that's my report thank you president Whitfi
eld are there any questions yes Regent Breer since we had the students here in regards to the and students and um lawyers in regards to where you have uh f FY 26 1 million and FY 27 1 million how will that enhance that since it seems to be a very big question for all them and it makes sense of how well they can get out of law school and be much more prepared than the book learning is great kind of like real estate it's nice to go to the classes and get your real estate he teaches you nothing abo
ut real estate quite frankly um how will this help them um without having the details in front of me actually interestingly enough we have uh Leo grinvald who's in the audience and can come and provide some uh more granular details on that ask thank you and I I appreciate that thank you uh Leah Chan greenal dean of the Willi William es boy School of Law UNLV for the record thank you so much regen breaker for that question um so our legal clinics are unique in the state um it serves a double purp
ose to educate the students who serve as student attorneys and you heard from some of them today um and provide legal free legal services to those in need in our community um and just to give you a little context um over the past two years we've provided approximately $3.4 million in free legal services uh and that's helping over 500 clients with their legal issues that range from immigration poverty and misdemeanors and so with the addition of the enhancement we would be able to maintain the fu
nding that was provided as a onot funding that um uh Chris Von mentioned and also have money to expand by hiring at least one additional 10year track faculty member to lead a clinic in a new area of need um such as veterans benefits or um homelessness um we get lots of community asks of us um and so we would want to think about how we as a legal clinic could best support our mission of education but also helping the community areas of need so you would be expanding it by one additional person so
that more of the student would more of the students be able to get the time there along with that absolutely and it would be at least one if not more we'd have to um you know dig down but just doing a very um overview look at our budget of how much we spend now um you know where we get grant money and the like um that would be it in in addition though we would also be able to hire more what we call clinic fellows and those are um practicing attorneys who come and work part-time for us to help w
ith the supervision of our students and so we could expand the number of students we have in each Clinic um which right now is small to give that personalized attention and make sure that they're actually um you know un doing quality ethical legal work because as student attorneys they are actually held the same standards as regular attorneys and just one followup so the attorneys that come in when you say work for you are they paid or do they okay yes they are paid as and we call them clinical
fellows okay and then I guess I'll have to ask the question in item 28 when we get to that one kind of relates to this but I'll wait thank you so much thank you I'll go to Regent Del Carlo thank oh this is for you too Dean G gral is that right greenal yes greenal and um one of the students came up today in public comment and said that they wish that this was a a required not an elective course and I know I'm putting you on the spot but have you ever considered that and then if you have what kind
of just rough what kind of cost would that be for a future ask yeah no I would love it if we could require it of all students to have a clinical legal experience it is truly a Capstone in the legal education and our clinics I'm so proud of our clinics we were innovators when we started 25 years ago we were one of the first to 10e clinical faculty members faculty who teach clinic and the rest of the nation's law school followed suit and so you know we are highly regarded in that space um you kno
w it's hard to put a number um you know more fully but you know thinking about you know could we require we would need spots for about 130 students um and right now we we have spots for about 50 um with the current funding we have so we would need to scale that up greatly um and we you know we're absolutely open to it and and just to let everyone know we do fund raise for it um but you know in terms of uh having endowment funds we would need approximately $67 million in an endowment just for the
clinic um in order to you know have um that be self-funding from gift funds so thank you yes region Bo thank you chair uh ma'am yes is for you yeah yeah I wasn't sure if that was a you know W to buy no um I mean I'm curious now these uh uh free clinics you have are these only for immigration issues or is it for anything I have an accident and I can I don't have money I can come to you and you'll help me with that or is it just for immigration issues there it's not just for immigration issues al
though we have uh an immigration Clinic that does help with a variety of different you know legal matters related to immigration but we have other clinics that help with other types of issues so for example we have our mediation Clinic that helps with um family mediations um and other types of issues that may arise that need mediation so we have very specific clinics that are focused on um you know overall specific areas in the legal field that help with issues but it's not just anybody can walk
in um with any issue uh although we do provide referrals to Partners that we work with like legal aid uh of Southern Nevada and other you know senior legal services um and it would be great to be able to expand to other areas so that we can help um more people but it it really is an educational component to it too so that's why it's it they're taught all of our clinics are taught by full-time tenur faculty members um with the assistance of other attorneys who work in the field to help with that
supervision because it's a very um Hands-On work as you can imagine to make sure students are getting the top-notch education and then become the top-notch attorneys we want for our legal Community sure that's outstanding thank you so much ma'am thank you thank you thank you Dean thank you chair um president Whitfield I just I I just want to um make sure that uh I I'm appreciative for any time you've given back but in case you want to go into any depth on your operating budget at all I just wan
t to give you that time it looked like you had some other uh um slides but if that's where where you're at then then we're fine with that too I just wanted to give you that that extra opportunity uh thank you chair but I think I will uh pass on my time to to my colleague uh the president of UNR okay thank you for for you LV okay um just real quick Regent Brown has a question for you Regent Whitfield I'm sorry president Whitfield I just had a quick question um can you remind remind us or explain
what is yes unlb I see it on slide 27 fiscal year 26 it's 260k and fiscal year 27 260k I don't remember seeing that program so I was just curious what that is you know it's not sparking my memory either what it is let me do a dive into that and I'll get to back to you before the the meeting's over okay so then we will move on to president Sandoval with University of Nino and good morning Madam chair Mr Vice chair members of the board of regions Chancellor for the record Brian sandal president of
the University of Nevada Reno and respectfully I appreciate the time given to me my friend from my friend and colleague the uh president Whitfield I'm honored to present the University's budget priorities for 2025 to 2027 this request reflects our commitment to your five goals uh as well as the Chancellor's priorities we really want to align with those which are enhancing campus safety restoring funding for the cost of living adjustments promoting Workforce Development bolstering student servic
es and fostering collaborative initiatives with our fellow R1 University UNLV so our top priority U Madam chair members is campus safety and you will see uh in this first slide that we are seeking the hiring of 10 new peace officers and six community service officers along with a dedicated social worker this expansion is critical and I'm going to move through these very quickly Madam chair but bottom line is we have not been able to increase our staff in the past two decades and so there's been
a 42% increase in our student population during that period so we just need more people so I'll move to the next slide facility upgrades um we also seek to install surveillance cameras C at our campus entrance entrances and additional cameras on building exteriors to Monitor and deter potential security threats we also want to upgrade our building card access systems and install new security doors to enhance controlled access into our facilities so obviously we have a safer environment for our s
tudents faculty and staff training and support again self self explanatory but it's very important in terms of preparedness for everyone on our campus also acquisition of mobile operations equipment will significantly enhance our capability to manage incidents so the total total funding request is $5.6 million for all campus safety enhancement which is an investment in obviously the safety security and peace of mind of our entire Wolfpack family uh you heard from Vice Chancellor vuon with regard
to uh the cola funding and essentially again bottom line Madam chair that Gap is 80 or is $10.7 million for us uh the state funding that we received was 60. 53% so we'd like to get to that 80% which um the legislature had done in previous administrations um and we um hope that the the legislature will store that but to our bottom line that means $1.7 million you also heard some discussion with the mandatory fee waivers and again to accelerate through this for us that's $10 million over the banu
m I think you heard during public uh comment from Dr Rucker who works in our um writing uh Department during public comment with regard to um The Gap associated with dual enrollment in that $75 and rather than vote to increase that fee I would i' rather see State support for that so that's something that we are going to seek student food skir insecurity you heard me talk about that um during my introductory remarks the the pack Provisions but approximately 24% of our students um have um risks as
sociated with um with food insecurity so we'd like to um we'd like to ask for some assistance with regard to our pack provisions program another thing that I we you have all heard is associated with mental health on our campuses and again the slide is is um self-explanatory but we would like to um hire three additional staff members a crisis and high-risk student coordinator and two licensed clinicians with emphasis on trauma and assessment and support for neurode Divergent students um again thi
s will these positions will PRI provide vital counseling and mental health services for our students the digital Wolfpack initiative you'll hear a little bit more about that during the provos presentation associated with Nevada fit but we have surveyed our students and overwhelmingly 98% of our students acknowledge that this iPad uh program is a valuable tool for their University education and 95% of them attribute it to their academic success so this funding request aims to sustain the digital
Wolfpack initi itive you also heard from me uh previously with regard to my introductory remarks in our the university and our our team selection as as a tech Hub and I just got an email this morning we successfully pushed the button and submitted our phase to application on time and it was received but as part of that application um is a position on our campus um would fund a regional Innovation officer to steer the project would act as a partial match for our Phase 2 application and please kee
p your fingers crossed for for our application online learning initiative and again the the remarks within the slide are um self-explanatory but we seek to expand our online learning and uh initiatives on our campus to expand our our online offerings and we're very excited about the opportunities that that would provide um for potential students and going to the students where they are nursing and again this is a discussion that um you're very aware of in in healthc care this additional funding
would be crucial to address the evolving needs of the Orvis School of Nursing and to meet the goal of expanding nursing program enrollments the funding will enhance faculty resources development and boost research productivity which is pivotal to maintaining the school's uh Competitive Edge and contribution to our University's R1 status but specifically the investment is in needed to expand the current nursing simulation facilities which are vital for for student training but are currently inade
quate for uh the enrollment growth that we seek so this is one of our um again the Chancellor's um priorities is for us to continue to work with our sister institution UNLV uh one of those is to collaborate with them to establish a datadriven center focused on enhancing healthc care delivery across Nevada this initiative will engage Statewide Healthcare facilities and professionals to tackle patient safety issues leveraging population Health Data policy Innovation and advanced simulation techniq
ues and again we're really excited about um partnering you know this is consistent with uh Regent Goodman with her discussion with the healthc care committee again I think everyone is familiar with this but I will throw in that um the state of Texas allocated $200 million by n to graduate Med medical education programs I think ours is very modest compared to Texas which would be $20 million over the same amount of time but we're seeking to expand residency slots with a focus on critical areas su
ch as OBGYN and Cardiology and request funding for faculty recruitment resident salaries and educational resources to sustain and the growth and quality of medical education in Nevada so the next is academic Health at the University of Nevada and Nevada and UNLV uh we aim to improve population health and reduce disparities and again just to be very brief and the SL the slide is um self-explanatory but to work together with UNLV and and our health care schools to provide um improved Health Care b
oth within urban and rural Nevada so graduate degree uh program growth and so Nevada faces significant Health Care challenges notably the shortage of speech pathologists and laboratory scientists in hospitals so these professionals are vital for the cenal services like hematology and chemistry labs and for nav navigating clinical trials and academic Health Centers so to address these needs the university Nevada Rino School of Medicine aims to increase graduate student numbers by developing new g
raduate and postgraduate programs in healthc care professions targeting an addition of 48 students over the BM so this would include Masters in Speech Pathology an Audiology doctorate Masters in laboratory science and health sciences certificates and Masters such as clinical research Administration and again some of these areas that we normally don't consider and then you heard um from president Whitfield rcip request is for a New Life Sciences building and I believe this is the third time I've
been before uh you all with regard to this request and some of you have had the opportunity who are are fleshman Sciences building and we love that building but it's was built in the late 50s and as I I shared with the um legislative interim committee there're members of those committees that were students on our campus and those labs have not changed um from 60 years ago and is the way they they are now so we're really hoping to get the the funding for that building and just to put it in contex
t because of construction inflation we first asked for this in 201 21 the planning cost has gone from $7 million to $18 million and the cost of that building the construction cost was 80 million in 2021 it's now $140 million so the longer we wait the harder it becomes and then finally um actually two finales um CIP request that we have buildings that are from 139 years old on our campus to to some newer ones and we need to replace this is really basic roof you the roofs on each of these there ar
e 323,000 500 square ft of roof replacement and repair that we need on our campus so that is quite extensive and as you see on the slide oops um that $18 million um for for that request and then we have HVAC and chillers and similar to what happened with uh with our um sister institution drri last session they fortunately were approved for that but we need to update and improve that those types of facilities on our campus and finally to improve the research and lab upgrade similar to what I talk
ed about with regard to Our Life Sciences building we're very proud to share the distinction of being a A Carnegie R1 High research University but you cannot do 2024 research with 1970s and 1980s buildings so we truly need to update our Labs on our campus so that we can keep keep Pace not only with other institutions across the country but remain uh competitive so with that um Madame chair Mr Vice chair members of the the board that completes my presentation thank you thank you president sandavo
l um I have a question from Regent AIS Scot and then I'll go to boand and Regent Goodman thank you president sanal in regards to the nursing program uh I've been actually a lot of the regions have been inquired about uh differential fees if that can be expanded upon yes uh Madam chair um to and through to Regent Eris Scotta and for the record um Brian sandal president of the University of Nevada Reno there is a gap right now in terms of the cost of instruction at the Orvis School of nurt nursing
this is something that um the nursing Dean Dean Duncan has I understand having been having conversations with all of you I guess it's not it's similar to what you're going to be saying seeing today with the law school and some of the other professional schools at UNLV it's just simply the cost of providing a highquality education does not meet uh the tuition that we are collecting region got a I'll take that okay thank you um I'll go to region Poland thank you chair thanks uh president sandal u
h Regent ariscat stole one of my questions but my first question was you mentioned in your first slide about the security the police and the lack and we haven't increased that in what did you say 20 years or something and uh everything else has increased uh why is that is that a lack of funding from eni or from the state how is why did we end up in such a situation are we going to wait for another terrible tragedy before we all decide oh wow let's get the right police officers CU we need them so
is there a reason why that's happened over the thank you madam chair to you and through to to Regent Bo and Brian sandal for the record and first let me start with this you know I want to compliment Chief James and his team at the University of adino and also at the other campuses they do a fantastic job and obviously with technology and things it's allowed us um to be able to do more things with the same amount of people but we have reached that point and it doesn't mean we don't have coverage
what it means is we're paying a lot more overtime for for our officers so yes that's part of what we would like to see is some more State support for campus funding uh campus funding of our um campus uh law enforcement activities also to update our vehicles and Equipment as well one more question so how could this board help besides going to the legislature when the time comes is there funding that we could Supply and she could Supply you or do you know of that who would know that yeah Madam ch
air I'm to and through to to Regent boand unfortunately there's no money uh just to be blunt um and that would come within within our budget and we have some budget challenges so that's why we are seeking this additional funding from the legislature to get more State support for those positions thank you Regent Goodman thank you thank you president sandavol I I had heard that uh gmes used to be significantly funded by the state for UNR what was that number do you do you know what that number was
when when they actually the state funded our graduate medical education and chair two and through to Regent Goodman and for the record uh Brian sandal and you know just that was something we established in my former job um we we created a a graduate Med medical education program and my recollection is it was 10 million do and I believe it was also prior to the establishment of the UNLV medical school so now that what GM money there gme money there is is shared by the two institutions but we wou
ld like to see a lot more money and as you expressed um in your comments we're one of the worst in the country with the number of residency slots so we'd really like to see more State funding to have more of those residency slots and the um I believe the example you gave is 70% of the residents stay where they are so I hope that responds resp about your question yeah thank you thank you uh Regent Brown thank you uh Regent Brown for the record I just wanted to um confirm uh on slide 38 um which i
s not yeah sorry 38 of the overall package I know it's not your 38 um the 5.6 additional campus safety funding that's represented in that first number that CFO Vuitton uh gave a 50 million is that correct or is that separate of M um Madam chair two and three to to Regent Brown I don't know I'll have to ask phon a friend here and um I need to apologize and ask if you would could repeat just to make sure I'm clear absolutely um it it it'll lead into my later question of how the the uh president se
e us working together as a system when we go up to the legislature so I'm curious when in from your slide you said it's 50 million for campus safety funding and then each of the institutions are breaking out campus safety uh numbers and on slide 38 um there's a 5.6 million in additional campus safety funding on the UNR slide so I was just trying to get to the point of should I be doing math either in subtraction or in addition um when I'm looking at that 50 million that uh sorry Chris phone for
the record the that campus request should be included in our 50 million and I would be able to go back and confirm that from the worksheets that we have that rolled these these items together so some of the campus presentations do include details that are behind the rolled up figures uh and we we did put those rolled up figures together with with the help of the campuses uh kind of reviewing what was provided to us uh so I can I can confirm that item specifically um with the information we have
awesome and and I appreciate having both sides so that's why I just wanted to clarify sorry madam chair if I may to to Regent Brown I just received um the thumbs up from our CFO that it is included in this amount so so there's no additional money here thank you are there any other questions or comments uh for president sandal uh Regent McMichael yeah so I had a question in regards to uh the roofing uh are these uh roofs already leaking or they're they're due for refurbishing Madame chair to you
and through to Regent M Michael Brian sandal for the record I wouldn't say they're leaking but they're well past their useful life so our facilities people do a fantastic job but it's not like the water is coming down but again they you know there are recommended warranties and life you know life for each respective roof and they're well beyond that and our facilities do an incredible job and that's part of what uh Vice Chancellor vuon had presented in terms of getting additional money for campu
s maintenance and we would like to use that for the roofs on campus okay and a follow up to that do we have any programs in our colleges that teach carpentry or Roofing do we have any programs like that available we we do I believe our community colleges have have some of those programs I um Kyle Delby for the record um chair carvalo to Regent McMichael we do have several programs at at wnc that deal with um Construction Construction management uh and the like which may include some Roofing as w
ell plus apprenticeship programs now can these uh uh can this be a teaching uh situation where we can repair our our own roofs and these individuals can learn these trades whether it's a degree or a certificate and we're accomplishing two things at the same time so again um Kyle delpy for the record region McMichael as much as I would like to loan our students to president sandavol for his roofing needs um the the final slide in the presentation has several of our own things but I do get your qu
estion and I do think there's an opportunity there we are finding lower enrollments in some of those programs because they are getting snatched up for jobs out in the industry at this time with all the building that's going on so it's a it's a tricky situation it's even trickier and sorry again president sandavol may add his own experience but we are having trouble getting um contractors to even bid on jobs at this point so that's where we are now that that's the whole situation I'm looking at u
h if we can I'm assuming contract out to repair our own institution's infrastructure uh like I said this this is a great opportunity for teaching and also getting our infrastructure repaired using our own personnel and I'm pretty sure that students will flock uh to the institutions that are teaching these and are awarding contracts for uh Roofing that needs to be taken care of I I assume immediately so you know we can snatch these people up faster than contractors who will probably try and overb
ed anyway I think uh Chancellor Charlton has something to add to this as well yes thank you so much for the record Patty Charlton and room Chancellor so thank you Regent McMichael for the question and often I know at some of the community colleges you may have some of the students that might have an opportunity to either Apprentice or work alongside a licensed contractor but there are licensure requirements that are mandated by state regulations and so we do have to be mindful but it's certainly
always something to explore because we do not have enough contractors um to support all of the needs within our state and even within our different um entities uh both North and South as well as our rural communities but thank you for the the recommendation thank you uh regen Breer thank you and I I think this has been answered before but I believe it's for our CFO um do we have a deferred maintenance fund and we don't do any I didn't think we did at at the univers or College system thank you R
egent Breer Chris vaton there there is not a either a central or a state uh specific onm uh deferred maintenance fund other than the hexek funds that are uh part of the systems banial normal Appropriations the $15 million that the system receives for each bium is the only source specifically dedicated to that but that goes along with the credit rating correct I mean if you use too many funds then if there's something we need to do or Bill does that then affect the credit rating or we don't have
a problem I know that the different entities would come to the commission for us to approve whether people could do more than they should within the municipalities but not particularly the universities or I can talk to you later I don't I don't mind I just think that a deferred maintenance fund can be very useful even though we need all the money we can but if it's somewhere where can grow then you have what you need for what um president sandal is speaking about instead of having to hopefully h
ave to beg the legislature for different things on a 140 year old campus so I'm good unless you know I'm I'm Regent Del Carlo thank you uh chair carvalo just a follow up on the HEC Sheek because since I've been on the board we get $15 million a year and that was done through the legislature has to do with slot machine you can explain it if you would president soval because we've never gotten more than 15 million and our at the time I me remember a long time ago we had a 100 million needs systemw
ide for maintenance which is way more now so how does that HEC Sheck ever get higher or does it not no Madam chair to and through to to region del Carlo and you're correct it's 15 million dollar per per year or over the banum that has to be shared by all of the institutions and we're grateful from the legislature and the governor that we got an additional 50 million to the system again which which has to be shared but it is a Formula um I I would say that um our CFO Andrew Clinger could probably
explain that a little better than I could um so maybe I'll ask him to come up Madam chair region for the rec heard uh Andrew Clinger vice president Administration and finance uh the University of Nevada Reno um to Regent Del Carlo um one thing I will say so it is 15 million every two years and it's spread out among the institutions based on a um gross square footage calculation for each institution but that 15 million for uh every two years has been the same since 1985 so in 1985 we got 15 mill
ion for a 2-year period and so our student population as a system since 1985 has more than doubled and so you can imagine the buildings that have been built since 1985 let alone the inflationary impacts um that you would see on that on those funds so it hasn't changed um since 1985 oh I'm sorry and I didn't I didn't even answer your question sorry um so the the funding comes from uh a slot tax that's part of it um but that slot tax revenue in recent years has actually declined so the state actua
lly backfills that with uh State appropriated funds to to keep it at the the 15 million level so uh Andrew is a it's a slot machine but now we have a lot of video poker and stuff so it's just specific to the slot machine because I'm thinking we have all these new casinos so this is not kept up and I want to ask Siri on a break what $15 million is that was 1985 1985 and what that would be in today's dollars I'll ask Siri later yeah it's it's uh Madam chair through you to Regent Del Carlo so it it
is based on the slot tax but it's capped it's limited at the 15 million so even if the state brought in um more slot tax revenue and I believe that goes to uh K12 at the the uh other portion of that slot tax so I would say say that then we're not looking ever um inter room Chancellor to um P Patty Charlton that we wouldn't be that's not an Ask we'd ever go to the legislature for in our stuff to to make that to 2025 sens dollars compared to 1985 um for the record uh Patty Charlton interim Chance
llor so I will say that we have asked for um increased deferred maintenance um allocations and many of the projects that you will see from institutions is just for that it's for deferred maintenance last session we were fortunate to receive $50 million um for the system and and from speaking with the institutions they all came to the table and said we need to have that as an a banal amount and that will hopefully even start to impact the backlog of deferred maintenance because the number across
the system um is very large uh we are a heavy heavy infrastructure um entity and so with those buildings and with the age of the buildings um it becomes more and more difficult uh with the challenges that institutions have either between their operating funds and they leverage their Capital Improvement fees already as much as they can just to support ongoing needs there's just never enough in the space of capital and so um we will continue to ask for those larger amounts um to support our instit
utions and these needs Madam chair if I may to you through to Regent Del Carlo this exact issue is something that we will be submitting to your interim committee as one of our suggested budget changes for higher education thank you I appreciate knowing that appreciate everybody's uh response thank you seeing no other questions thank you president sandavol thank you madam chair can I make one more comment Regent or vice chair DS looked it up $15 million in 1985 is over $56 million today so that j
ust shows you how the state has neglected us okay so we're GNA go to Nevada State University I just want to let you know that after Nevada state we will take a lunch break thank you madam chair and to the regions for this opportunity to share a few observations regarding uh the 20 25 Nevada State University legislative priorities uh unlike my colleague uh president sanval I have on sitting shoes versus standing shoes so I'm going to sit if you don't mind uh for this presentation but it is a cons
olidation of a much longer report that we were able to offer and thank you to the interm chancellor uh for her leadership and bringing uh the system to our campus so what you will see is a reflection of the presentation that we share with them uh the Consol validates uh observations uh regarding our priorities uh from my team which include uh student and faculty perspectives here so we've organized the English professor and me could not uh just give you a list of things without some type of conc
eptual framework uh so for me I love a little bit of alliteration so you're going to see the fact that our uh deck here is going to be organized around people programs policy and places uh we know that the most distinctive part of what we do at Nevada state is delivered to the people that we have the honor of working with and the students we have the honor of serving we do that through distinctive programming within a policy framework that allows us also to advocate for very specific spaces to d
o the work uh you've heard many of my colleagues talk about uh some issues regarding Cola and other things uh we endorse that and you'll see some of those in terms of policy for me but I want to emphasize in terms of people safety egress and I'm going to you're going to hear this theme continuously throughout uh the presentations uh today the photo that you see on uh this this particular slide uh was taken on the day of the attack at um UNLV and as you all know our campus was uh recommended for
vacate as well this is actually uh leaving our campus parking lot uh it was referred to in a newspaper not too long ago that Nevada State's campus sits at the end of the longest culdesac in the city of Henderson uh there is not an ability for people to leave our campus on multiple venues there is one major venue in and out a single artery uh this is in my mind uh a miscarriage and it's really waiting to see what will happen at this particular Point not only can people not get out as this picture
uh indicates but the travesty is that also our emergency workers would not be able to get into campus if they need to do so because we have this one artery so if indeed we value people they say budgets are a reflection of values uh for us people are a value and we need to make sure that we have the ability to respond to people accordingly if we think about programming uh our faculty staff and students have brought up several uh types of programming that we should be thinking about on our campus
obviously as you've heard here campus safety measures um what I what I find quite intriguing to share with you is that Nevada State University unlike many of our peers was never designed uh with a campus safety in infrastructure in mind we did not have a police force on our campus in fact uh because of the Southern command we work deeply with our peers here uh but we pay a fee to the university uh of UNLV uh who helps provide as a part of our work uh campus safety Services we need a ongoing dir
ector of Camp campus safety to design out as we are becoming at Nevada State University that requires us to put the infrastructure in place to do that all the things you've heard my colleagues talk about as well cameras lights uh bulletproof filming uh film uh for entryway uh mandatory training flashing lights traffic uh Bullards those are all things that you will hear uh repeatedly but for us on our campus uh this is what we've indicated we've had a very successful uh camp commuter service betw
een our campus and the campuses of CSN uh we recognize that we know who we serve and our students uh transportation is oftentimes a barrier to higher education so the ability to uh maintain this camper community service is essential to advancing economic mobility and higher education in our region and our students and our faculty been very thoughtful about trying to reduce techbook textbook cost uh I would indicate and support uh a continued effort to uh move toward OE where possible but also bu
ild in a support uh so that our students are able to access those materials uh thoughtfully and deliberately um you will also know that Nevada State uh we Excel I believe in the robust support services that we wrap around students in and out of the classroom our signature programs such as NE Pontas and Kofa Fame uh those programs as well as our Mental Health health programs um many of those are funded on soft money and we are trying to move them uh from soft money into resources uh that can be m
ore stable and predictable for the institution and we believe that if this is indeed one of our Keystone projects again you must treat it as such nursing we know that nursing continues to be uh the the bread and butter of Nevada State University oftentimes uh so we want to continue to see that including uh looking at how we can increase uh to offer a masters in me uh nursing Administration which has been asked for by our partner hospitals as well as looking at other uh opportunities to expand uh
programming for students by additional students night programming and so forth we are very uh excited and we want to continue to uh build more robust Partnerships with our uh sister community colleges so the opportunity to enhance transfer functionality is essential we've been doing some good work in this space but we also know there's additional work that can and should be done the city of North Las Vegas came to us we have a significant portion of our student body who comes to Henderson from
North Las Vegas and as they look at meeting the needs of uh this particular portion of our community uh they would like to see us partner with them to advance an educational opportunity there we would have the opportunity to serve about 2500 students and about 240 courses per semester uh at Nevada state what's very exciting for us is that they are building out uh the north Las Vegas uh development agency is building a 19 acre development that will uh transform their downtown area and to create a
space that has a residential and business but they would also like to see anchored in that as education so this will allow us to build what we believe with them a groundbreaking model in southern Nevada where we would have the opportunity to bring educational delivery in a roughly a 35,000 square foot facility uh accomplishing uh many things in terms of testing Computers online courses uh looking very specifically at our Core Curriculum but also degree completion programs with our sister instit
utions and more importantly career coaching Workforce Development uh the city of North Las Vegas is going to construct this project and work with us in terms of a shortterm 5 to sevene strategy to pay that uh but we're looking for operational dollars to actually deliver uh coursework and programming there this can be a game Cher in terms of meeting the needs of a community but more importantly doing it in the communities of which they are living a policy priorities not unlike many of which you'v
e heard from my colleagues campus safety uh restoring the cola uh renewing nursing expansion and funding uh formulas for unfunded unfunded fee waivers and renewing of wind funding all of these things we support and look forward to the guidance of the system and advocating for those iny priorities we are growing campus and last year we were so excited uh to have made it or the year before to the top of the list for a new capital project but we also recognize the need with our peer institutions to
support uh as we talked about earlier deferred maintenance that moved to the top and there were no capital projects provided so I bring this project back and a series of them with hope that uh we will be able to seek additional support from this board and then with the state to support that you would not be surprised many of you have heard me talk about many of these projects at a redundant level our academic Village uh which will allow us to provide a number of Support Services to students pla
nning uh and that building will be essential this is where we would Cate a number collocate our Support Services uh and move them from a number of our academic spaces steam building uh we know that steam is the future present and future of Nevada We believe that there's space to be done on our campus in that water infrastructure I have 250 acres of land that we're in the midst of working to develop a key to that is a need for water storage tanks so you will hear me say this until I'm blew in the
face I remind you when I interviewed for this job this was a 4.6 I believe it was Million doll project it is now a $9.6 million project I I love the observation that uh president Sandoval raised earlier these costs are not going down the same as with the academic Village they continue to grow over time a concurrent a reoccurring theme our safety egress we need to pay attention to that so I put it under people and places you can never do it too often and then a safe students uh Wellness facility
uh we have received some federal dollars we want to expand on that to expand the capacity here uh last but not least uh Nevada state has a Statewide Mission and we have been uh thoughtful in our conversations both with our sister institutions in the north uh in particular with TMCC and wnc where we offer uh some degree completion programs how do we look at showing up more deliberately in those spaces we do not need a space there by oursel but here's an opportunity for us to partner our colleagu
es at Dr and TMCC had already been in the midst of planning a shared facility and when we talked to them about the possibility of uh Nevada state having presence there uh they were very excited uh and accepted my excitement to join them in that space so we are looking to think about how you might reimagine higher educational delivery and Workforce Readiness through an Innovative uh partnership where we would have a few classrooms and spaces to one uh provide opportunities for students who want t
o explore uh graduate and excuse me undergraduate education at Nevada State University in some specific areas but look at the synergies that also might come from that uh when we are working so tightly together so with that in mind I'm happy to respond to questions thank you thank you president Pard questions for Nevada state yes region Poland thank you madam chair thanks Dr Poland what would you say is your top priority would that be safety eress and uh all all that or your water supply cuz if y
ou don't have water up there you're going to be in a wee bit of trouble I think I agree that more than a Wei uh but I I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to add that to my vocabulary the wi um I I would offer that we have water right now but we aren't able to expand and as we know Nevada state is rapidly growing so we need to have uh that water pressure issue resolved in order to do that but I I have to say safety is number one uh no one wants to come to campus if they don't feel valued and safe uh and
more importantly for us uh we know this has been a issue that has been kicked down the field uh or is that the right word Road thank you kick down the road uh that has been um uh when I talk with our elected officials in um our area they know for a fact this needs to be remedied it will require uh an investment uh of public dollars to do that but also some will to challenge some of the assumptions about space and space utilization and more importantly what the future of the area should look lik
e so I would say Public Safety is most important for us thank you Regent boand thank you ma'am thank you chair thank you uh Regent Cruz Crawford Regent Cruz Crawford for the record um I just wanted to let um you know I got to um sit with the city of North Las Vegas and see this development from the Inception to what they Envision right now and the most exciting thing for them was bringing education and educational space and maybe non-traditional way yes um this really is an education desert this
area um there's a lot of work Force development um gaps and I think um this is going to just be so valuable to our state as a whole and so I'm really excited to see the the north Las Vegas um development project also partnering with CCSD um to provide some continuing ed and training for teachers which is also very necessary so I'm really excited to see this work well thank you uh Madam uh Regent and I'll also share with you that we also had conversation maybe um maybe two months ago with our co
lleagues at CSN because one of the things as I shared with this idea and concept with many of you you were very clear to me about cannibalization and you were very thoughtful about the idea that we should be working together which is a CT of my ethos and as a result of that we've already started talking with our colleagues at CSN to how uh to co-design programs so they are truly a two plus two uh opportunity and I have a phenomenal new provos to who has uh done some of this work in other spaces
as a committed to thinking differently about how we do delivery of higher education in this region it is um a travesty that we've allowed this educational desert to be maintained uh you know I'm always struck by the concept of Master planning and I always think about we think about master planning as an opportunity to plan for things and communities better I often think that sometimes though we master plan to keep things just as they are so unless we are intentional about master planning somethi
ng different we will have the same thing happen over and over again so I am excited about this opportunity to expand the mission thank you thank you Regent Brown thank you uh Regent Brown for the record um going to the egress plan obviously we've been to campus um it is it gets tucked up there and it's almost kind of when I when I drive in I'm like oh I'm going in the back right and like yes just um so I I I see this as a priority and thank you for um thinking about this I'm assuming this is not
the same as campus safety funding that we were uh that we kind of addressed earlier so to the CFO I'm assuming this 10 million is not going to be included in the 50 uh million brient Brown Chris faton yes that is correct for that 10 million we do have that 10 million captured in the capital priority requests total thank you region AIS Scotta thank you chair carvalo in regards to your last slide slide what we have it's the drri TMCC NSU dandini comment you mentioned this thought or this proposal
about a month and a half two months ago to me and I I did not like it then and I still think it's somewhat disingenuous now um I don't ever foresee Arizona State University moving down the street from Arizona Andor Washington State moving their campus down the street in Seattle um I'd like to get a little bit more um reasoning for this um grandiose proposal or thought so region Eris Scotta I thank you for the question um I'm not quite sure if I understand the modifiers in your description but I
I'll be happy to to share some of the thinking behind the project um as you know we currently deliver uh 3+1 and a program with TMCC and graphic arts we also do education programming with WN C and as a result of that we've recognized that again Nevada state does indeed have a a Statewide Mission and in fact uh typically when we are submitting our budgets there's a considerable line within our budget that speaks directly to implementing or executing a Statewide mission of which we're charged for
uh when I first arrived and spent time in the north and in the South and other regions uh it was very clear that a group of my advisory committee there asked uh well do you ever have any ideas about Nevada state having a presence here in the north you are called Nevada State University and I a college at the time and I was struck by that and so much so that I kind of sat with it and said this isn't a project that I am prepared or interested in doing right now I need to understand the feel and m
ake sure this is something that can and should be done and explored so I set with that idea for quite some time and then in the midst of uh our uh convers ations we've been preparing with the presidents for uh the conversation regarding budgets and how we might deliver and have a presence there there were a couple of things that came about our colleagues as I described with Dr and TMCC have been already planning a co-shared facility uh we've been having some conversations about what does higher
education look like in uh the future uh we certainly have I think great opportunities in the state to talk about Mission differentiation we have great opportunities to have conversations regarding service areas but what I think in the absence of those conversations haven't taken place as of yet uh for me this was an opportunity for us to think about how do we deliver a Nevada state Mission uh which has a very different one than the institutions that are currently serving the north whether that b
e our phenomenal R1 institution our phenomenal community colleges and our phenomenal research institution as such we have a different Mission uh we have a different admissions requirement uh we have a different cost structure so we may be an option for students who want to pursue the borate degree but would not be able to apply for an R1 institution who may not be able to afford that or someone who has other interests just as we have students who attend and live in the south who have an outstand
ing R1 institution here they may choose to go to UNR because there is a better fit for them so I think our job as an institution is provide options is to think think about what might be in the best interest of residents it is not in the um this would be a very very very small uh function that we would have within this facility I believe we talked about two or three uh classrooms not unlike what we currently do there working we actually have a faculty member and space on the TMC campus already uh
this would be a way for us to establish pres a presence to us offer options that's really what it is it's not an attempt to uh be grandiose it's not an attempt to uh move beyond our mission it is literally a way of providing more opportunity to Residents uh whether they be in the North or in the South the the mission for the entire system is to deliver education a high education a quality education the students at Chucky meas Community College have a great opportunity to go I think it's 4 and a
half miles down the road it's obvious and there's an obvious reason why Dr and T TMCC have a shared vision of working together because they share the same Hillside that's understandable um this will be another topic we can definitely Venture upon down the road but as of right now it is not something that um is palpable at least to me up on this Northern Nevada campus um some of the reasonings why you're stating of of a state university has a mindset of being venturing out of the area in which t
hey serve I don't know of any other state universities throughout the country that have that same mindset my I will do the research and I will find out um however that's like stating well if you're the first land gr Institute on uh in your state well we're the first ones here we should be able to venture anywhere it's not that mindset um this will be a discussion we'll definitely Venture upon down the line so thank you certainly and I look forward to a region ariscat I I do think that there are
a number of State models and other states that could be quite informative to the conversation thank you president hilgerson hi I would like to chime in since I really view this project as as quite historical from the sense that we've got three different types of institution joining together because we obviously aren't doing great with capital in the state of Nevada for public higher education and so maybe joining together will get us more votes uh for one but I I want to speak a little bit as as
a a bit of a eni historian even though I'm on my eth year when I first arrived I proded many board documents and I was so interested in some of the documents that I discovered in the late '90s and early 2000s developed by the board of regions and these documents highlighted Mission differentiation and they highlighted a vision and the vision to me was so beautifully captured in these documents and that was a vision for two amazing universities who were sort of uh both accepting the very best st
udents of the state at the Freshman level and then transferring in the students who maybe needed a little more help at the two-year college level uh and Nevada State College was the state college sort of that middle tier entity similar to the state college that I graduated from in California turkey Tech Stannis La state right I paid my tuition by plunking my tips on the cashier because I was a waitress my family didn't know how to help me fund College it was a wonderful mid- tier that got me a f
free ride to the University of Oregon one of the top universities in the country so I see Nevada state as a as a mid-tier institution that was literally designed and created to be that for the entire State all right I think one of the things that concerns me and and that that I'll highlight now instead of during my presentation and save us a little time is that I think uh what I've noticed in the last few years is that the mission differentiation among the institutional types is just gone it's j
ust lost and in the future that's going to be a problem that will be a problem and I'll tell you why when I taught at Gonzaga University off off and off for many years the incoming freshman GPA was about a 4.0 maybe a 3.8 when you look at some of the best universities in the country the incoming admission for freshmen is typically around a 3.8 and higher clearly the universities were were needing the very best students so that they can really churn out the very best research right and again that
doesn't mean that students won't get to a place like the University of Washington it just means they may have to really hone their skills at a at a Eastern Washington which is more of the state level the middle tier or start at a two-year college and move up from there I think what's going to happen 10 years from now is that the universities may by necessity need to sort of stop enrollment which means they may in effect bring a much stronger student and not that all of our students aren't wonde
rful and strong they are right because they're motivated to be here and that's the beauty of what we do but there may come a point where if the admissions bar is increased at the University level that creates much a much greater need for Nevada State University being sort of this mid-tier option that that is Statewide so in answer to your question Regent jois scata I think for me it's about the it's about a vision it's about a vision that might be 10 15 20 years ahead and that is the role of thi
s board and that is why we are proposing this project now thank you thank you um Vice chair DS I want to Echo what president hillerson said uh the state schools I graduate from California state schools as well and I found it was a great experience a great opportunity and uh there are what last I counted 23 there's probably more than that now so and they go throughout the state that was always what I thought with the Nevada State University is it would be something that would be planted throughou
t the state to serve more of the population and that might be something if we just talk about em Mission differentiation at some point point it it might be part of that conversation so thank you I really applaud your vision on this at uh president Pard so um it's it's exciting to see what you have going thank you region Downs thank you yes Regent Del Carlo I can't go by and not echo my colleague Vice chair DS's comment I agree I mean this is a State University now it should be all over the State
and by joining forces we got we're talking one building we're not talking three separate buildings we're talking a joint combination building and I know I think it's the graphic arts program is where the professor is on the TMCC campus and I've met students that have taken that program they get their AA from TMCC and then they go back to TMC under the guise of really going to Nevada state it's a fabulous program I mean I will bring up under new business we have to have the mission differentiati
on and service area conversation it's been so long that I've asked for it we have to I'll do the nuclear option if I have to thank you thank you Regent Del Carlo um I there's been so much that's been said um I will go to Regent Brown I'll be quick uh quick uh Regent around for the record I I want to Echo what um Vice chair DS and Regent Del Carlos said I think that this proposal is the quintessential system that we talk about we talk about ourselves as a system and this proposal does that we are
offering wraparound services in so many different areas we're expanding uh amazing uh work Statewide we are just thank you I want to thank all three of these presidents because this is the kind of vision and and as as a as a regent I want to see more of this I know early days I heard something about a a campus in parump maybe with partnership with CSN and GBC and uh I believe there was an maybe Nevada state was also included in that I want to see more of that that only makes sense especially um
you know when we look at the budget and we just don't invest in education in the way that we should and so we have to Maxim maximize every dollar and this is how we do it so um I just want to say thank you okay we have a lot more comments now um I'm gonna go with regen Perkins and then Regent Cruz Crawford um thank you madam chair um I that that's exactly what I was going to say uh Regent Perkins for the record this is systemness this is to coin a phrase that uh Joyce uh president helin uh ment
ioned earlier when she first came aboard this is systemness this is what we're about we need to Leverage our system so that we can provide um a better experience for the students so we can move up the ladder and provide uh more Workforce Development more and do it effectively and as efficiently as possible and this is a big vision and thank you for bringing it to us I appreciate it thank you Regent Cruz Crawford Regent Chris Crawford for the record I'll be very very brief um I I do want to revis
it um what the mission differentiation is I think that's really important and just kind of putting it into like my K through 12 lens we we always look at the student that we're servicing and then we partner resources at my school or within the K through 12 setting we call that multi-tiered system of support yes we look at the child here is an adult student the need and we take City local state federal resources to meet that student's need when we start looking at land and territory for that stud
ent um we start segregating and not giving students the opportunities they need so I want to caution ourselves and make sure that we're we're meeting the student where where they are with that mission differentiation I think this is a wonderful wonderful um combination of powers to meet that college student where they are thank you thank you thank you that I don't think there's much else that I could add to this but I am in I am in full support of this as well but I just did want to extend an in
vitation to our student leaders who are here if they would like to say anything yes president Gomez um Brayson Gomez president of the student government Association um I do really want to add the student perspective I think it's really important this proposal is a wonderful opportunity quite frankly um we have talks about access to education in Nevada and I think this project in collaboration with TMCC the drri and NSU brings just that um I really like what president hilam hrome expressed and th
at um how this will increase options and you know it's called um Nevada state for a reason it's going to be it's as everybody mentioned it's a Statewide institution and having this partnership will not only increase options for those students in the north um but also bring an increase of programs and um you know just diversity in the north right now um we have drri wnc UNR um and TMCC but we're lacking that you know middle tier institution uh um which in this case is Nevada state and so I am in
full support of this I know other students um are also in full support of this um you know as students we really want options um in our education and this partnership brings just that so yeah thank you president Gomez um as I've given students the the option to chime in I'd like to do the same for faculty uh Dr Appel thank you so much chair carvalo I just wanted to well first shout out um Regent Brown for coining systemin just wanted to give a nod to that for a moment excuse me I said it yesterd
ay I pulled that I should I'm so sorry for the record I got that from former Vice uh for former Chancellor oraga well my citation was an error uh I have I will revise and resubmit um but I do just want to uh make the observation that I think equity in what we what we strive for in each of our institutions educational equity and our mission is is really about giving students access to choice and I worry that ascribing choices and opportunities to our students based on essentially competing region
alisms and ideas of Zero Sum proprietary missions is is not in line with that search for Equity um and I would I would just be excit very excited to see um a robust Mission differentiation conversation I know that at NADA State we're we're very proud of the distinctiveness of our mission thank you for allowing me to speak chair thank you so with that we will break for lunch we'll come back at 1:15 thank you okay we will continue with item 21 next up is drri President ataria thank you chair Vice
chair regions Chancellor and colleagues um I'm going to get to the point right away and skip a few earlier slides um so just wanted to uh start from this slide just to give you an idea so even though our typically uh State Appropriations or from general fund is very small but our actually um FY 23 total operating Revenue was about $50 million of which about uh um $7 million about 14% came from the general fund uh that in FY 23 there was a little bit of capacity building funding so we got about 1
6% of our funding so it's small but the total operating revenue is not that small um but since that's why we're self-supported most of our fun funding comes from uh grants and contracts so just wanted to also give you a perspective dr's portion of the state funding is um really tiny less than 1.5% of the overall NC funding so of the money that we get from the state um almost 80% goes to salaries and friends and uh remaining 20% goes to onm and operating cost the reason why this is important is u
m if you look at this Slide the utility increases that $2 million pretty much most of that goes to utilities most of it you see that in last two years our utilities have gone up by 42% so I think this is something that the reason I wanted to put this slide is I wanted to bring this here so that maybe there's a way that collectively all NC institutions ask for some utilities uh uh funding because this is ridiculous 42% over two years you know so our B name request is about $10.7 million uh this i
s our regular operating cost operating ask um we have a couple of um Capital Improvement project uh we are asking for about $1.2 million to install fire sprinklers on our seven buildings um this is very important uh to avoid U risk and uh we're also asking for this actually we had this slide way before uh the UNLV incident uh it it's not related to that we also need to install safety U uh equipment camera surveillance on our campuses and so we began that process last year so we'd like to ask som
e money for that and I wanted to provide a little bit of a background information on this request that Dr TMCC and NSU uh this is not a new request drri is growing and so is TMCC and we have a need for additional space and a large Conference Center 2021 23 BM we actually had this uh planning request and the board actually had ranked this number one among all the planning request and when the plan planning and construction request were combined uh this fell off because the construction requests w
ere prioritized this is nothing new for us and now we have NSU as a third partner but this is something that uh president ilam and I have been talking about and and we all already we've already identified a land between Dr and TMCC it's both walking distance for us and it's at Dr Research Park and so this is something that's needed we're growing and we I'll tell you that if I if I'm able to build this building I'll be able to host our board meeting in Reno campus as well so think about that you
know so um with that our requests are very simple uh we're not asking for funding formula change or anything we did that last year so that's about it for us if you have any questions I'm happy to U answer thank you president ataria any questions or Regent tell Carlo I just have a comment because I know the formula was wrong and I appreciate the legislature fixing it for you last time but this is just you're so little of the state budget and thank you for I know you had your evaluation but you've
done a wonderful job financing um dri and setting it up for complete success and money rolling in in the future so thank you thank you thank you other questions for Dr wow okay we will move on to CSN president zaragosa Madame chair Regents colleagues and guests for the record Federico Saragosa president of the College of Southern Nevada and again thank you for this opportunity to provide the CSN budget and CIP highlights uh for us so first and foremost uh I need to emphasize that CSN has many b
udget rated funding gaps that are critical to Student Success and that are aligned to the an goals so this afternoon I will speak uh to several of our unranked priorities in the context of the en gold categories and I'll start with access which directly impacts our strategic growth efforts of particular importance to CSN are dual enrollment Nevada promise the pris education program and the non-credit to credit Pathways our ask in this category is for $6.3 million this would allow us to impact ab
out 4,625 students uh in the access category in the category of Student Success in the areas of completion and retention we are requesting funding to support a corequisite instructional component uh because approximately 70% of CSN students require Enrichment Services and we simply need to offer additional sections uh we will need funding also to increase our student advisor to reach our 350 to1 ratio uh we need resources to increase uh support for our students in the mental health and wellness
area and then we also uh are proposing to increase uh the number of Summer acad emies uh our total ask for this category is 1.2 million and it will impact uh 12,425 students much of that because of the advice function in the category of closing the gaps we're requesting funds for open for the OES that's for the open resource component and for minority male mentoring program uh the ask for this category is $1 million uh and it's impact about 500 students my computer stock I'll be right with you s
orry about that okay and I'm I'm also going to be skip skipping a a a slider to it I'm going to talk a little bit about our security uh request which is one of our top priorities uh and like our sister institutions at CSN we have prioritized uh the need to address safety issue and there are three areas that we've identified uh and I also want to thank uh p has for his input and guidance in this individually he's been very concerned with the security issues so first we need to upgrade uh 978 came
ras uh throughout our campuses we need to standardize and secure door accesses to offices and classroom and we also need to secure uh our classrooms including updating of panic buttons and door aess the estimate by our CEO with about $4.2 million and this does not include uh the cost for additional onsite officers uh to increase campus security so I want to talk a little bit about uh some of the projects that that um we highlighted earlier in kind of the overview uh but projects that are very im
portant to us include dual credit uh and this slide shows uh the comprehensive nature of our ask uh please note that in this slide we're asking approximately $4.2 million to increase the credit enrollments by almost 4,000 students uh and this is how we would do it first and foremost we need to equalize uh uh our uh instructure instructor stiens uh we also would like to add u a thousand new enrollment opportunities for Early College acmis uh in the CT areas and there's great opportunities for us
to do further alignment with the secsd system especially in areas of high demand like it and cyber security Advanced manufacturing and Logistics health careers and the culinary arts area amongst other opport OPP unities that are yet to be explored uh our Jumpstart program uh can be increased easily by um 2,000 slots uh and this would allow obviously many of our CCSD students to graduate U from high school with at least one semester under their belts and finally we would add 1,000 additional slot
s to our early college students or our CSN high schools and in this space obviously the expectation that students complete their associate and certificate degrees uh while still in high school uh we've done a lot of work now to increase not just the Ft um the enrollment but also the Ft they're taking more classes and they're completing more certificates of value as part of their curriculum experience so the second uh big priority for us is student advising and again uh you've all seen uh the eff
ect of student advising and having Student Success uh we're still at about 564 to1 we need 30 advisers to reach our 350 to1 a goal and so that would be embedded in our ask as well uh in the workforce space uh again uh we want to focus primarily on the nursing cohort and on the teacher education pipelines uh uh we want to be able to support uh these priorities uh that are not only Statewide but also very real in in in our Marketplace we also want to bring forth the issue of Market hires that in s
ome of these areas are getting and attracting faculties is very difficult uh and so we're going to have to be able to infuse into our budgeting unability to be competitive uh in some of these high demand Fields so I won't spend a lot of time on the funding formula other than to say that I think this is really critical for community colleges this light simply documents Our concern and request that Equity be the Cornerstone of any new funding formula and I would suggest that we can no longer fail
to provide fun funding to address the well documented academic and financial needs of poor and disadvantaged students attending en especially attending our community college needless to say uh we look forward to working with the en uh uh and the chanc high education funding committee un formalizing our recommendations and again Equity can take many different forms if you ask that question in every dimension of the funding formula we're going to make some very good decisions and finally thanks to
the support of Governor Lombardo in the 82nd State legislative session CSN was incorporated a $4.5 million planning grant that will allow CSN to bring forward to the 83rd legislative session a funding request to build our first building on the Northwest Campus property so that we can address the workforce needs of our Public Safety sector as well as to meet our federal BLM requirements to begin construction of our first building by June 2027 the proposed building will be an up to 990,000 Ft fac
ility that will allow us to combine our existing Police Academy EMS and fire science programs into a center of excellence structure the plan will save CSN approximately $415,000 annually in lease payments moreover this approach will greatly enhance our ability to prepare new generations of Public Safety officers and will also position CSN to better address the higher education needs of the N North Norwest Corridor one of the fastest growing areas of the city as I mentioned during my president's
report the Department of Public Works is in the process of selecting the architect of record and general contractor to design and build a center of excellence in public safety the Department of Public Works and CSN user committees are ready to engage in the programming design which will determine the actual square footage and ultimately the cost of this project Madam chair that constitutes my report and I'll be willing to answer any questions thank you president Z Goa questions or comments from
the board oh okay Vice chair DS thank you chair carola um kavalo sorry um president Zer go I had a question about the Dual credit slide you had um you mentioned if you had you can get 2,000 more slots but you need the money is that is it for instructors from CSN to teach those class class or are you utilizing the uh the affiliate model where you have high school teachers teach in the classes yeah it's all of the above and I'm going to ask James McCoy I think he's in the room uh to address kind o
f dual enrollment component but it's really a comprehensive approach and it covers the three types of dual enrollment programs that we have so the jump start is basically when we're using the concurrent enrollment model the acmy uh in a lot of cases where we're using our own instructor duel enrollment type scenarios and then we've got kind of the the jump start which is a kind of a hybrid of both uh but we're asking that we expend comprehensively all of the components and I think James can add a
lot more to that thank you sure uh James McCoy vice president for academic Affairs at CSN for the record uh chair and and the Regent uh Downs the the short answer is the expansion of concurrent enrollment uh particularly emphasis within the Career and Technical education space uh no doubt there's a proliferation of opportunities for general education concurrent enrollment math English social science Etc throughout Nevada we're not done yet but there's a lot of Institutions all of us in fact can
can really move in that direction and and CSN has certainly been a uh big big player in that space since 1990s um but with the premise around articulated credit that's already as you well are aware uh established within the school districts across the country uh and the move in that articulated CTE credit to go to a two-year framework uh that opportunity opens up then for concurrent enrollment as a bridge in their student high school students Junior and senior year and so for this fall uh we an
ticipate going into 14 Career Technical education Pathways in the concurrent enrollment model uh and we expect to at least double that um as the legislative conversation continues fiscally okay thank you so I'm seeing if you can help me to to distinguish between the differences so the CTE Academy is that what you're talking about is where you're going to increase for the workforce training component of it and then the core 15 Academy indeed uh James McCoy again for the record CSN uh yes the the
core 15 Academy model is the general education requirements uh in English math social science uh 15 credits essentially uh this is a space that CSN has been in for quite some time and this is also a space of emergence uh for a lot of our other institutions within inii so although we'll continue to grow in that area to the extent that we can uh we're putting most of our growth um in the CTE Space Jam said if I could also add that the idea here is to be very intentional not just for students to ta
ke a dual credit course for college credit we want them to get into the pathway so the idea here we block that first semester so they graduate with uh from high school with that jump start into their College transfer okay and when you say that that that's both for excuse me standard academics and also for the uh the CTE areas absolutely and in fact there's plenty of models that we've already used where uh individuals are graduating from RCT programs with a certificate uh the Nevada gold mines fo
r example would be one of the examples but there's other areas where High very much like our our uh our early college model or Cs and high schools is young people begin their career and Technology programs at the high school and then they graduate with the certificate the college certificate much like you would a a graduate with an associates degree it's the same idea we get them kind of we get them to the whole process of becoming College proven and then being able to continue the journey eithe
r into the workplace or into the workforce okay thank you appreciate it thank you Regent Cruz Crawford Regent Cruz Crawford for the record this is probably for Dr McCoy as well sorry um my question is also on that slide is when there isn't U providing a CSS adjunct to teach High School when there isn't a qualified instructor available what meets the qualifications Dr take Regent chis Crawford James McCoy for the record great great question each of our inii institutions as you know are required b
y the Northwest commission to articulate those qualifications to be an instructor of record uh at the institution or otherwise wherever the instruction is delivered and and transcripted at the institution so for CSN specifically we have a a course credentialing uh policy uh and depending on the course uh requ re Ires a different level of requirement so for example for a transferable level course uh general education uh to Regent Downs question earlier around our core 15 for example in the concur
rent enrollment space that would be inclusive of a master's degree plus 18 graduate credit hours within the field of study uh that that transferable level course um is being taught in the concurrent model it's quite different however in many of the Career and Technical education spaces oft times to be an instructor in welding there's not a master's degree or even a Bor degree option for for for that for that student and so the experience Andor the holding of Industry recognized credentials in th
e context State welding would be the driving force for uh those credential requirements thank you so much um yeah so I'm asking because you know we are expanding through the goed bill the teaching and learning programs we are going to be expanding nursing and mental health and for a high school teacher to have a master's Plus 18 within that field of study it's a little different like I got my M or my bachelor's in mathematics and psychology and traditionally Masters then in curriculum instructio
n um so are there these unicorns or what are you doing to work in that space because there also is years years of experience as well and I'm worried that you're going to you're going to work yourself out of that conversation and not fulfill the demand um within that space so thank you Regent Cruz Crawford James McCoy again CSN for the record you're absolutely right if and be happy to provide a a deeper overview of our of our CSN policies in this credential link space but it is very individualist
ic in that these are the the criteria for a transfer level course uh in terms of instructural credential and then there's a provision that allows the institution and the department uh subject matter experts to look at each individual applicant and as its commencement with their experience and their education ation so for example if you have a say a well seasoned high school instructor who has a a Balor degree and perhaps in their field and perhaps a master's degree one of the common ones instruc
tion and curriculum as you're well aware um and they have been teaching in their field for X number of years well that that experience combined with their educational attainment is a consideration and we put those decisions on our academic Department leadership at each subject matter uh to be able to vet every applicant that comes forward okay now we'll continue to have uh I know the slide is not about there so I'll I'll stop with that but I did attend the National Conference for concurrent enro
llment and uh shared the criteria of Masters plus 18 and that was not the norm that was the strictest measure so I just want to make sure that we're we're mindful as we're opening up um these opportunities thank you certainly thank you Regent boand thank you man Madam chair uh since we've got you up there I'll just follow up on what uh Regent Crawford was saying cuz to me there's a big difference you know between counselors and advisors so what's happening there I've been getting uh which do you
think would be better for the students counselors or advisers and why are we seeing we've talked about this before I know we've talked with uh Dr zaragosa but why is this happening and why does keep coming back to us Dr sure roll sure James sure James McCoy CS in for the record Regent Bo and it's a great question and one that the institution is currently contemplating uh as you recall from Dr Zero's remarks at previous meetings the Northwest commission has asked us to specifically look at that
to specifically define the role and obligations of an academic advisor versus those of of a counselor uh there is a task force that the president has established in response to that particular recommendation from the Northwest commission to uh respond to that very that very recommendation they in the middle of their work we are expecting a response um by March 15th in fact is the deadline so we're just a couple of short weeks away following the recommendation from the task force we'll be able to
provide a much deeper response oh that's great then we'll get that information and we'll see why it's happening and what we can do about it right absolutely certainly yes thank you thank you and thanks Dr welcome thank you I'll move on to GBC with Dr denelli good afternoon chair carvalo Regents and ch charlon um today I am going to be representing uh Great Basin College's budget priorities and um so I'm going to start first off with um our our campus safety and sec security we have multiple cam
puses and in having multiple campuses it means that we have to have multiple systems in place that starts with our security system particular our camera system which on our audit we realized that we um have two different systems they don't talk to each other so that's a problem for us we have to identify how to align those and so we estimate that cost to be around 60,000 in order to do that um we also need to move on to having our limited access uh utilizing the door keypad and badging system ou
r problem with that is that right now everybody still has the metal keys again having access at multiple campuses becomes a challenge um becomes a challenge for us when we have part-time faculty and so it's something that we recognize as an issue uh that needs to be addressed we were fortunate enough to have Amanda wus from UNR come and do our active as salent training in the fall as part of that training she also did an audit of our overall um incident response um our continuity and uh what we
would do with uh the resilience and Recovery if we had an incident and what we found is that we are lacking and it is an area that we truly need to focus on and make sure that we have something in place for all of our campuses so as part of that um we have a committee together uh moving through all of our documents and her after actions report which details where she sees uh areas of concern our cyber security is another area that we're updating um and is going to end up being a focus for us bec
ause 76% of what we do is online and so making sure that we're doing that safely is also a priority um it's not just keeping our campuses safe it's also keeping our system safe at uh our cyber level our GBC funding priorities are pretty similar to what everybody else is going to have um when we're talking about fully funding the FY 2425 returning the cola you've seen those trends for us specifically that small institution Factor has not been increased in many years that's something that we would
be asking the ad hoc uh committee to look at uh for funding formula as a request to potentially look at increasing that amount um we also are looking at uh implementation of a brand new website we haven't had that for many years um we haven't had an update and so we're in the process of uh commissioning RFP for that uh to make sure that everything that we have on it is accessible for students and that it's more student- centered and that goes along with our CRM which I'm hoping uh will go live
in the next uh five to six months and that will give us a better opportunity to manage all of our student relationships um as far as tracking students across courses and it should give us a more streamlined approach to our institution we have uh capital projects and deferred maintenance and just like everybody else um you're going to hear me say that we have roofs that need repaired or replaced um we just did a big project or HVAC a lot of our buildings are are old and dated and because of that
um when we ask for funding and we get it through capital projects like we recently got 1.5 million for Bergh Hall instead of having a One-Stop shop uh like President Helens likes to call it at at Berg Hall um and remodeling that area that funding is having to go to the infrastructure of that building and unfortunately the cost of infrastructure is is pretty significant so it leaves little left over for rehabbing remodeling when we have all these other areas that we have to focus on our capital p
rojects though that we are focused on and we we are always trying to seek outside funding and looking for sources of uh support whether it be through grants or additional funding from private donors um our our our Target projects for our transitioning our library to an innovation and Technology Center with a focus of stem uh we also want to look at updating our high-tech Center we share that with the okal county school district they they have uh half of the building we have the other half and um
we're looking at more of a collaborative effort with them um specifically as it relates to CTE programs and that concurrent enrollment model um we're still looking at um different projects and ways that we can fund our perum Valley land project we have the land out there we need to develop that within the next year that comes at a cost of about 2 3 million so we know we have that kind of hanging over us and I think it's about a year a year and a half but we have to have some some sort of uh pro
cess in play so we're moving forward with that as far as student access and support you can see from those numbers a lot of our students are using that Millennial scholarship Silver State Opportunity Grant and the Nevada promise um for our Native American students last year we only had 11 students this year we did a really good job in fall with her financial aid really getting the message out we have uh five different reservations around Great Basin College and so um with that came 44 students j
ust in the fall so when you see that number of 82460 that is just for fall um our nursing program is one of our Focus areas obviously we've got the SB 375 one of the reasons why we have uh this slide particularly in there because we always like to say that we are number one nursing program in the state of Nevada based on our testing results of about a 10year pathway with that so um but outside of that we run four nursing programs in four different locations which means we have to have four diffe
rent labs and in having four different Labs that means we have to have all of the equipment all of the simulators that are the same for every single location to make sure that we have equity and with that means I know there was a a question by region ariscat on differential fees so I'll just address it here the community colleges all charge $120 for that differential fee um but for us specifically it just barely barely makes it so with all of the simulation and the equipment um that's right arou
nd 130 to $140,000 in maintenance agreements to keep all those simulators so that only leaves about4 to $50,000 and what we have to buy in medical supplies so I'm just putting uh that information out there for you guys to digest uh so that you understand that even though the program is smaller um it it is costly so our s SP 375 expansion um we added a nursing director we've added a nursing faculty position in Elco um we're still recruiting in perum which means that we're going to start leaning o
n our partners and our universities to say hey do you have any graduate nurses who want to work in education because we've had a really hard time recruiting and then we also purchased two Lucina mannequins those are birthing mannequins again in order to have the same mannequins and the same experience at every single location we had to do that to show Equity um we are bridging an LPN and Paramedic program um we have a Paramedic program and we do have LPNs that work within our Care Centers and so
we've added that piece and a pathway in um we plan to start that in the fall and we are planning for an overall increase of our enrollment by 18% our teacher Pathways um if you're not familiar with Elco County School District this year they went to a 4-day school week it's difficult they do not have enough teachers they do not have enough substitute teachers and so to accommodate that they're doing longer hours uh during the week and taking uh Fridays off um they have some other rationale why t
hey added that in there but uh that's one of the largest reasons why so these programs for a bachelor's in Early Education and those numbers that you're seeing we started that program in Fall of 22 um the ba in elementary education um is is probably one of the like biggest things that we did in adding in parump and adding a position there with the enhancement money we try and look at ways that we can grow our programs um specifically at all of our locations so that's a big piece of doing that um
faculty are a big component of any of the cost of any of our programs and so we have to look at multiple locations and where we think that that's going to benefit we also have fun coming in obviously the teacher uh the Nevada uh sorry teach Nevada scholarship and then our incentivizing Pathways um are literally paying for around 113 students between both of those programs and that's a significant cost at 244,000 and then the one group of students are at 83,000 that incentivizing pathway is grea
t because it pays for those uh internships new things that we created at GBC over this last year that are making an impact in education our early childhood education skills certificate we started with a cohort in Fall of 23 we had 30 students 29 of them completed and I think that's pretty good um we also received a grant from derer for 298,000 over two years to help assist those students in paying for for those courses our next education program that we just started is the paraprofessional that
just kicked off this uh spring and so as you see we have a brand new cohort of 33 students and we also received $170,000 uh to help assist those students paying for that certification and pathway and really the hope is that these students will continue on out of these degrees into the larger uh associate and Bachelor degrees so our win funding um these are some of the projects that we're looking at uh it's win funding season right now actually I think most of those applications are March 8th so
we're busy trying to pull and write things um to make sure that we're going to hit our funding marks but these are some of the target areas the dispatcher certificate um our very own faculty Senate chair David ston who is here today um will be leading uh the charge in developing that program and uh making it accessible throughout Nevada um our associate of science in data science and analytics we take what we have from within so we have two mathematics teachers who are building that program out
and we hope to start that uh in the fall we decided to develop a technical writing certificate uh we're hoping that high school students will be interested in that and that it will assist them as they're transferring into our English courses uh we have a joint venture project with a mining company and for mining skills certificates for around 300,000 that we're going to be asking goed for and then a mobile training unit for our programs in wamaka winam makaka is a smaller campus we don't have ac
cess to additional building space and so one of the ways for us to build out a new program is to have a mobile training lab and then we've got some ongoing funding um which we've presented on uh previously oneshot funding I threw this in here um because community colleges uh specifically Great Basin were really good at oneshot funding we pull a lot of different money money sources in we use multiple sources for one project for example uh our respiratory therapy program which we partnered with re
Renown um we are using private donor Perkins and also Federal funding to stand that program up at a cost of nearly 2.5 million so these oneshot funds the downside of oneshot funds is that they're one shot so our hope is really that we can get these programs going and that we can get the enrollment in them but there's always that Cliffhanger at the end especially if you have faculty salaries tied to this and it's always something that I'm conscious about and always thinking about we have great i
deas we're developing skills certificates and while we're able to employ people and hire people what's that going to look like at the end of that one or two shot time frame when we run out of the funding so um it's something that we we definitely have our eye on but uh I just wanted to give you guys a picture of of what this looks like and I'd like to close today with mental health uh resources at Great Basin College specifically uh the funding that we got through samama um we used two of our pr
ofessors at uh Great Basin College uh Oscar Ceda and Dr herado W munz who also was over a tenure yesterday so congratulations to him um they trained and we have 193 on there but we are over 200 um we have trained the largest amount of people um includes GBC students faculty and alumni in Mental Health First Aid training and um the significant part of this is really that that's a six-hour training it's real difficult to give up that time frame so um it it really is a commitment and a culture chan
ge within our College to say this is important and the majority of the people that attended that were students and I think that's really telling um we also are doing things like suicide prevention um you can see those numbers on there we have 24 in and students and employees um that are also uh doing and have completed the suicide prevention training and lastly we haven't really had mental health resources on our campus if we have a student in crisis ultimately we would take their name and we wo
uld reach out to UNLV and their graduate program to see if we could get a student in to meet somebody last year we had approximately four students in need we knew that number was going to be low and and so we kind of doubled down on an idea of a company called better mind that allows for full-time counselors 7 days a week 24 hours a day students are going to be receiving um up to three counseling sessions if they need them um we can allot up to six and uh so for the very first time our students
actually have these resources and in order for us to finance this we got a partner with Elco Federal Credit Union that gave us the 40 $6,000 this will carry us for two years but again this has a cliffhanger so we have mental health resources for two years for our students and we really need to be looking at this as a system to say how are we going to carry this forward and so with that I would just say thank you very much for the opportunity to present and we well I I would welcome any questions
uh chair carvalo if I may pardon me yes Mr W as some of you know the Governor has closed all state buildings in the Reno and Carson City area which includes system office and SCS and so uh fortunately we have some experience with this but we'll need a few minutes to make sure that we get all of the zoom links out because we're still not sure if we have a connection with Regent arisca so if I could respectfully request that we take just a few minutes to give kri a time to to pull those matters t
ogether sure we we can do that um unless something else it looks like region Eris Scotta is there so we are we I have you I hear you no but looking outside the snow is coming down sideways and it is coming down um if you could give us just a minute thank you yes thank you region Aris Scotta region Aris Scotta yes sh uh you should go home sweet all right um um there are four other individuals nothing personal but Carrie Parker is going to put a sign on the front with the zoom link and we'll be ab
le to get you access that way so if you can give Carrie just a few minutes she's making those arrangements now uh we have five other people that are in the room with me should they all be departing also yes you uh Mr Wixom one other question question please sir pardon me if I could bear everyone's Indulgence please yes region erisca I have provos Thompson from the University of nevat Rino in front of us who has a planned presentation a scheduled presentation should will there be a contingency pl
an for that presentation or how should we go about it we're working on it um I think what we are going to do in um consideration of time with this meeting today and the situation in the north I think what we will do right now is um take item number 22 26 and 27 off of the agenda 22 26 and 27 was Thompson was that you thank you uh chair Calo yes thank you region AIS region Eris Scotta if you could tell everyone there everyone Carrie just Nicolosi just informed me that everyone there will have acc
ess to the zoom so to the zoom link so they'll continue continue to participate via zoom and then Carrie Parker will put the information on the door of the building esper the Nevada attorney general's prior directives in this kind of a situation thank you we'll clear the building thank you sir all right welcome back everyone um we're going to continue with item 21 um Dr denelli from GBC just gave her um presentation um for the budget process are there any questions or comments for Dr denelli reg
arding GBC if not I will move on to TMCC president hilgerson hi Karen hilgersom for the record president of TMCC the first thing I want to do is just take a minute and talk about this process because it's one of the processes that eni goes through that I really really like I like it because it starts in January when the chancellor and her team came to all of the campuses but came to TMCC listen to us for at least 90 minutes talk about who we are at our best and what's your legislative wish list
right so what are the things that you don't have now or the things that you need some money to sustain that process after listening to all of that from the from all of the eny institutions culminated into sort of an N she list and what I'm going to present to you today is the the points where the N she list perfectly aligns with the wish list of TMCC along with a few other things things that are somewhat unique to TMCC here's the beauty of this process we're still about a year and a half away fr
om the official beginning of the legislative session so what that means is that once you as a board sort of determine and weigh in and and hopefully provide some extra Direction but also hopefully reinforce the N priorities that we've already agreed to with help from the eni staff then we can seek an alignment with the legislators we can share this priority list our wish list with legislators who are currently in office and I would also suggest that for those who are running for office this coul
d be some talking points if if that makes sense okay so I so just kind of a reminder that that this is such a cool time because we're this is the real planning this is the real planning this is the wish list I I wish we had all the money to fund these things but obviously we don't and that's why this work is is hard it's not easy so TMCC the vision and the mission I'm going to skip over that review of the last budget session we felt pretty good with how it ended up considering the excuse me the
enrollment hit that we took resulting largely from the pandemic TMCC is a midsized uh Community College with about 10,000 students give or take a few hundred $48 million is our state budget uh and and these are some of the things that that reviewed of the last budget which which really were very very helpful to us so how do we move forward how do we move forward well we're we here's where we really align with the other colleges universities and the drri I think we've all agreed that we need to a
sk legislator for money to close that Cola funding Gap I think we've all agreed that unfunded mandated fee waivers for D TMCC that total is 1.1 million it's not sustainable we need the state to start kicking in a reimbursement for those really great waivers that are helping so many people in Nevada access public higher education we do want some more funding to sustain and to reimagine and to build Upon Our dual enrollment much like CSN I could almost uh verbatim Echo what uh vice president McCoy
said that for us it's about using extra dollars to expand concurrent enrollment and to provide other discounts to grow the program in appropriate ways we also have many waivers at TMCC for National Guard and Native Americans these are great waivers but the problem is it it's hurting our budget and it's hurting the budget for all of the students and and that's really not acceptable so we really need to work with our state legislators to help them understand that renewal of wind funding that's hu
ge for two-year colleges some of the best industry Partnerships at TMCC were a result of the generosity of goed and wi funds so that's really really key nursing expansion you've heard that today really key to talk to the legislators about reupping the the excellent uh extra money that that we got in the last session top of my head I think it was 10 million but I hope I'm not misre calling that campus safety and deferred maintenance it's very high on our list it is with all the en institution so
these really are the areas where I think we're in agreement and these are kind of the those the the framework that we can go to our state legis at and really seek seek sustaining these programs and building upon them budget celebrations we've had a few the last couple of years the cola funding implementation strategy my leadership team and I worked worked hard on that along with faculty Senate leadership teams I think it worked really well for us enrollment recovery we were really happy with wha
t with the base funding that was provided and the way that was calculated for the current bium but also at TMCC we did our internal equity study and that resulted in additional raises for uh a good number of our faculty and some administrative faculty as well and it was it was time it was time to do that so between the colas and the equity study we're in a good place but there's always more we can do around salaries because the cost of living is just it continues to go up in Northern Nevada and
I'm sure that's true of Southern Nevada as well budget priorities and capital projects okay so so these are some of the formula budget priorities for 2527 that are more specific to TMCC and and mind you that part of this is recognizing that there's a a formula funding study committee that is occurring so all of this is sort of in flux right now and and I don't know how the timing of it will work out that'll be very interesting if the formula funding uh committee says okay well we have a whole ne
w formula and here's what it's going to be like what I'm saying today May no longer apply so to some extent I'll be sharing I I'll be looking through a lens of the existing formula but I'll also give some suggestions in the event that there is a new formula so first of all much like the other two-year colleges we if we're going to have the same formula structure we need additional weights for Allied Health programs CIP 51 from 2 to four million of additional Revenue uh the program cost for all o
f our nursing programs or other Allied Health for example radiologic technician uh We've I'm I gosh I just had a real big blank on all of our programs oh our emergency medical management programs Dental Programs these are all very expensive programs and we just the weights of those programs because remember we're not funded on enrollment we're only funded on credit hours that are completed with varying factors and the factors for these areas are just unbelievably not correct way too way too low
uh also if there is a new formula consider consider separating two-year College from University funding formula eliminate the hyper competition that erodes academic Excellence funding for non-credit Workforce training this one is really important and I think you heard enough about that from the College of Southern Nevada but this is really really key and then Mission differentiation should be reflected in a fair formula of course budget priorities let's keep those state funded scholarships going
whether you're talking Nevada promise whether you're talking the Silver State Opportunity Grant Millennial funding these are all really important and of course you've heard it several times today restore the 80% Cola funding Workforce investment fund this is huge uh right it's it's sort of at the the whim of a particular legislator and what legislative uh year we need a continuous stable force of of stable uh funding source so that new programs and projects that meet Workforce needs can be inve
nted they can be sustained they can really help uh buoy up some of the startup companies that are coming to this to this area and it's just super important and I and I think this is probably equally important to the knowledge fund that the universities need the two-year colleges need Workforce investment for training programs and Industry Partnerships instructional budget priorities so this is really important we we struggle with positions in high demand instructional areas and so we've got to f
igure out a way areas like nursing areas like computer science in fact those are probably the two best examples cyber security as a as a branch of computer science it's really difficult to find faculty and pay the price to keep and retain those faculty classroom refreshes we've done a lot of this but we need to do so much more we now know that the high Flex classroom really cool really great and now we just need a lot more money so that all of our classrooms can become High Flex student access a
nd success initiatives at TMCC we pride ourselves on Innovations pilot programs sometimes programs that don't work that well but but you got to try right that's I call that the pedagogy of risk you've got to try because the the puzzle will be solved and we will do much better if we can continue to try new things open educational resources stiens I've talked about this many times at the board meetings we have made enormous progress in Saving students at TMCC thousands of dollars due to our effort
s at open educational resources but the efforts reached a new plateau and we gave stiens in the summer for faculty to take the time and it takes a lot of time to basically rebuild their their reading materials from scratch so they could be free right those stiens that we've been giving out really propelled the number of open educational resources and we really want to do a lot more faculty fault budget priorities improve tmc's full-time to part-time faculty ratio part-time faculty don't get paid
enough to to be the the heart and soul of of instruction we really need to continue to have a robust robust uh showing of full-time faculty who are dedicated to to our College develop and improve funding structure and the eni committee is working on that resolve the cola Gap by the way this came from our faculty Senate leaders this slide so this is where we're really in alignment collective bargaining agreement our faculty Senate would like to see an agreement happen now personally what I would
like to see is a collective bargaining agreement that is collaborated and agreed upon prior to the session opening between Administration and faculty who who are covered by that agreement I think that's that's where we could come up with the win student budget priorities more State funding for en institutions I love this right the students get right to it we just need more money invest in public higher education and food and housing insecurity I love I love that our students thought about this
because it shows their compassion and it shows their their willingness to understand that the students that that we serve sometimes need help with food and housing and of course I think we've talked about this really fabulous uh the idea for a shared facility I will add that what we are asking for is $5 million of planning money oh wait you know what I forgot to do the fact that we also have uh some other project ideas I will not discuss them today so stay tuned when we have an opportunity later
to focus a little more deeply on some of the capital projects okay campus safety uh this is huge for us as well I think you heard that theme today we are working on it already we received a $25,000 FEMA grant for access control which is door codes door controls uh and so we're working on all of that but we need so much more so this is a a legislative request that I think we can all Galvanize around these are concerns budget Mission planning budget implementation all of that uh is interconnected
it's interconnected and these are just some questions that my leadership team and I asked ourselves and I hope the board I hope you ask yourself some of these questions is hyper competition working that's kind of the current funding formula Student Success and completion numbers for special admission students is a college experience true with unqualified High School teachers as primary faculty and by the way some high school teachers are very well qualified according to the same standards that
we use at TMCC right but unfortunately many have different qualifications and the faculty at TMCC and I agree that that we we want faculty here are qualified right using some of the same standards that we would use if we hired them to teach at TMCC is budget volatility occurring due to the removal of service territories is anyone studying the outcomes of these expansions we're aligned with the majority of n goals including Cola unfunded fee waivers nursing support wind funding campus safety upgr
ades we also need to upgrade classrooms collaborate with n on Mission differentiation and linkages to Fair funding distribution model questions and thank you that concludes my report thank you questions for president hilgerson doesn't sound like there's any thank you so much for your pres presentation did you have did oh I'm sorry regen boand can can you hear me now yes all right uh you mentioned the two areas like nursing and computer science that we can't get instructors faculty blah blah blah
just an idea and a question CU I'm not sure is there a way that if any students who get those degrees and they've got uh funding from the state or the college or wherever we have an agreement with them that they would stay after graduation and return the favor and teach those classes how would that work maybe um actually I think it's a I think it's a great question and I've worked in states where there are programs like that set up particularly for Teacher education right so in other words a st
udent who's on a teacher education pathway gets a completely free ride from the state but they also have to uh agree to teach for usually it's 3 years in in a certain you know in that state or those monies could be CLA back right so I do think there are some interesting things that other states have done but again we we better start now we got a year and a half and we'd want to you know seek legislative support for those kinds of programs uh but I think it's a great idea I mean especially from t
he standpoint of computer science and cyber security this is a real issue and it's it's not going to get better anytime soon so I think the the more creative approaches I think that would be great so that would have to go through the state not through eni you know I there's probably many different ways to uh think through solutions to that or Implement new ideas that's that's what I'm trying to look for is a solution does en she do that or would we have to go to the state to do that does anybody
know in your so no I think I need time to process this very complicated question okay all right thank you thank you very much thank you uh um president hilgerson so in regards to the affiliate program that you discussed that lots of schools are using what is the model you use to qualify the high school teachers to be part of the program so well it again I would Echo almost verbatim What what James McCoy said and that is to some extent it does depend on the course and it depends on the departmen
t but the conversation that the faculty Senate at TMCC had and I believe it was in Fall of 2021 where we had this conversation was that for most transfer courses the standard would be at least 18 graduate credits in the discipline in addition to a master's degree that that would be the low bar of course the high bar is uh you have a master's degree in the discipline and and we do everything I mean we we deploy we still deploy some uh Masters prepared or doctorally prepared part-time faculty to t
he high schools uh we are doing some concurrent modeling and we are also uh really trying to expand Career Tech Ed concurrent models because many of the Career Tech Ed teachers at the high school level are they're actually more qualified than some of our people you know which is kind of which is great right uh and there may be a developmental Ed might have a different standard I think when there's any um uh questions about that that the department chair can weigh in but and that ultimately there
might be a very particular exception to some of these things so I would say it's a a part really using common sense but but the ultimate the ultimate goal is the acknowledgment that a faculty member with graduate credits in a discipline is adding value that a college course isn't just about the content the reading materials or the assess that at the heart and soul of a college course is a human being a faculty member and that faculty member has a passion and a love for a subject that's why they
got a master's degree or doctorate degree in that subject and I think the goal here is is that's kind of what college and university education is that that the faculty who are working closely with students and facilitating the learning it's not just it's not just their expertise but it's their true deep love for the discipline that's really important to the faculty at TM CC it's really important to me because I was a faculty member at a community college for so many years and and so we're just
staying true to that standard but we but we also know that there are some good exceptions to that we just don't like the exceptions becoming the rule yeah I get that yeah I've the the 18 credit uh graduate credits I think tends to be somewhat of the standard or what's accepted and I look at um even graduate students though in many cases at UNR UNLV they might be in a math field or English Field and teaching as a TA right and they're teaching those 100 level classes I did that too but you know wh
at I did that because I had a passion for my field I went to graduate school because I had a passion for my field right and and I also had a close Mentor professors would watch my work I taught I taught a I hit the ground running at the University of Oregon you know uh I had a bachelor's degree but I was sumacum LTI so I went in there pretty prepared because I loved my field and yes I I taught those courses but I was assigned a full-blown tenure Professor us in a group of Tas so I'm not sure tha
t analogy is pure I think it's still apples to oranges uh because I think the difference is graduate students love the discipline uh I would not be permitted to teach in K12 I do not have a teacher's license I have a doctorate in educational policy leadership and management but I will not uh pretend to know how to teach kids because I did not have courses on how to teach kids right yeah and I think that's the difference I mean the it's interesting to me that lure is so clear for teachers in K12
right and I would not qualify I would not qualify and and I think we too have a standard in higher ed it's just not as clear you don't need a license to teach in higher ed I don't think we disagree on on this principle I I was just presenting some other options which are probably outside the scope of this discussion so maybe it's for a future agenda and nice item all right but thank you I appreciate it thank you thank you president hilgerson other questions comments okay wnc president alpie good
afternoon number eight on your roster number one in your hearts I hope Western Nevada college um I have to use a baseball joke because I do have a baseball field that I'm getting some text over here about why we don't have an A report and that's because we no longer have a team so we will uh we keep looking at that into the future interestingly enough when I gave the budget presentation with my group to the system office staff and I appreciate the chancellor putting that together it was a snow
day and we had to do it on Zoom So to avoid that today I decided to come in person um however the rest of my group has abandoned me so go easy with me on the questions um we did prepare a budget presentation the biannual request we did include our faculty Senate our Student Government um appreciate Professor Michelle basson who helped us with the faculty perspective on that um and you're seeing selected slides here most of which are going to sound kind of similar to what's already been said but
I will put the wild cat spin on it so um as we go into it a lot of um I'm going to kind of skip into some things the biggest thing we've talked about over the last year couple years is Safety and Security and so this is a chart that Maps out our Safety and Security immediate needs on campus similar things do we talk about um the the the perimeter security notification system blue lights all of that it's a $1.8 million price tag I know my colleagues on either side of me have a larger price tag mo
st of them have bigger campuses we do have three campuses but Safety and Security is one of those things that we we continue to talk about all the time and no matter how we talk about it no matter how we map it out get the get the um advice the trainings from career from the police services that the next thing that happens is something that we're thinking were we ready for that and having been through several different um uh tragedies on campus in one form or another I know that this needs to be
at the top of our list so we we appreciate the support on this I know how the governor's office is looking at how we can keep our campuses safe we're looking at it um this would be a piece of it some of these are already in motion so we're not waiting for the funding we're trying to find other ways to get it going um there's a couple Recaps here our nursing expansion I put up put up the Senate Bill $375 it's about a $1 million over the Bania mask we'd like to keep that going into next session w
e were very successful and I appreciate the business finance and Facilities committee for helping us extend our lease at our Fallon campus we have a $2.3 million uh piece a Federal grant going into our pinion building to expand nursing in Churchill County and beyond that is good because that $2.3 million I've been doing this for a long time in the state of Nevada and I'm and I'm saying it out loud because I have said it out loud it is easier to get money out of other sources than the state I don
't say that to slight the state but the way the process works is not the most uh agreeable to how we build things they do help with a lot of things and we do those things too but some of the times the federal money the private money helps a lot faster so we are able to get $2.3 million to put in there and then the state helped us with 375 which is the way to staff it up and put equipment in the building so we have paired that into a pretty significant rebuild of our Fallon campus and we're looki
ng forward to that we would like to continue this uh funding as well going into the session um the win funds which I have been um using and and writing GRS for since day one when this all started that's another program that community colleges we do couple quick stats to throw at you 51% of the jobs in this state require more than a bachelor's degree or less than a bachelor's degree but more than high school that's the sweet sweet spot that we fit in as community colleges the training that employ
ers come looking for when they move into the state and we're looking at battery recycling now and flashback eight years it was um how to process 3,000 batteries a day off the the gigafactory they're looking at some new new technology that needs the training we can do that training they expect us to do the training we can't immediately ramp something out without funds but the wind funding is one of those ways that we can actually write a grant the state will provide support of their employers tha
t are diversifying the industry and we will um we will ramp up programs and move forward our our big piece for win funding which I'm glad to hear they had some money left over the other day when we met with them for this year but it might be too soon is We are continuing looking at battery recycling as we continue to do more and more battery recycling programs with the companies that are based in Carson City and in the industrial complex up outside of uh outside of Fernley um and so the details
are on there and of course we have a larger Grant proposal on that our prison education program I appreciate those of you I've lost track of who's actually come I know there's a few in the crowd who have come to a prison education program because we've had so many and that's good we actually had to have the one for this year in December because the the uh students in the prison will actually be released in February so they won't be around for May commencement and the prison education program whe
n they complete that it puts them out and I'm going to try to say that word I'm not going to try to spell it recidivism is that right it it it it uh it reduces that likelihood that they will end up back and so when we do a prison education commencement ceremony we do it for the few graduates that are there this time we had I think nine um and they bring in all the other students and they watch it and it's all best behavior to watch it and it's a really good program to help that keep going we hav
e built that for $120,000 a year for like the last six years we are asking for a significant increase on this $426,000 a year to be able to continue to pay for the scale up that we've been doing and to scale it up some more and expand to different areas um I know the other colleges um have programs in this space as well so this is one of those that we can all partner together for a group ask for specifically like what we do because our program teaches in the Carson prisons when they get released
chances are they're going to Clark County or waso County that's where CSN and TMCC can pick up a re-entry component of the prison education program so this is another good one that we can look at and and put some group um think behind it and we appreciate the support of the system and the um the governor's office on this one um as we look at dual enrollment and fee waivers I go straight to the numbers uh there's as you can see on the screen I wanted to we we had used this in as the impact for w
hat it is costing us to do dual enrollment and provide fee waivers and because that was asked for and that's you need to have that number our our waivers are down below the top two lines are the first line is the discount that we are giving um for using High School teachers in the classroom um if they are qualified to teach a class and they're teaching because that rate is different than the per credit rate which is the second line there's a reduction on the per credit rate so it is costing us a
certain amount of dollars in this case almost $1.1 million for um for the delivery of the dual enrollment program now we do get the weighted student credit hours but as you've been hearing and I do have some side notes on the funding formula the the the funding formula doesn't kick in for two years later so right now wnc is seeing an 11% increase in enrollment this spring 177% last fall a significant amount of that is in the dual enrollment space and naturally you would think if you're up in en
rollment you're getting more funding through registration fees therefore you can hire more faculty more staff now now we can't do that because of the reduction in the rates and the populations that are driving our enrollment increase so we we hope it comes in two years but I don't know what two years is going to look like nobody knows I don't know what you know I don't even know if I'm gonna make it home tonight right so we don't so uh so we're uh we're we're looking at the formula and then on t
op of that I'm in a very good place because I feel like we've we've kicked it with the funding formula we're going to see reap some awards in the 25 session but we can't that's not a guarantee that's not the way the formula Works um there might not be money there everyone else might be up and they might change it because there is a this this uh committee going so so a we're acknowledging the the cost that it is for those two programs and then the remainder of the waiver programs which of course
we support all of this as my colleagues do it's the it's the piece of actually supporting the daily operations that go into to making all of this happen and and I'll answer questions if you have more on that as we as we get to the end um capital projects I am not here I haven't been in this I've been in this seat in multiple whatever the title was for almost two and a half years now but we have not asked for new buildings for a reason 41% of our headcount is now dual enrollment that scares me be
cause we there's going to be an enrollment Cliff we will now start diversifying into more Workforce programs which will bring the working adults of the construction programs the roof repair people that we all need all of that will be the latest and I I say that lightly but we need that okay we all need that um but the other thing is is that 30% of our students are taking classes online I do have three campus we are maximizing our space which means that I don't need capital projects that are new
buildings right now I'd love to have a dorm I'd love to have a couple other things and we might look at that down the road what I need is money to fix the buildings that we've got because our buildings although not 150 plus years old but they are dated now the weather hit us hard last year and so we have a we have a number of things on our deferred maintenance plus the remodels and pieces that you see on the on the um on the slide here which real quickly I'll talk we will host the board meeting
in September in our Aspen building we have a nice New renovation of our Carson nugget Hall that is awesome it looks great we're we're doing our bookstore which will old book store which will function as the secondary room but that whole front of that building to expand it there's an old cafeteria we want to expand it we want to look at a a base uh Bas level culinary program similar to other programs we've developed and be able to have a working cafeteria in there that's one piece the second piec
e is our Observatory several of you went to the star party we had in the fall we will have more of those there's some Renovations that need to be up there there's some safety that needs to be up there being on a college campus in quite literally the middle of the night without any lights on okay for a star party that's one thing but you still got to find your way to the car you still have to be safe we have to find ways to bring that up to speed plus we are looking at doing stem summer camps for
students K12 students they can come up they can walk the trail all of that needs to be something we're looking at so that's an improvement and then our Douglas campus we're looking at doing a very similar project to like we did in Fallon where the campus is somewhat underutilized because of the nature of the courses a lot of it happening in Douglas County High School a lot of it happening online let's put a program there that people will flock to and that's going to be nursing 12 students that
we have in our Stu in our nursing program come from Carson Valley which is Minden Gardnerville they can take classes locally continue to work locally it frees up 12 seats somewhere else so all of these we will continue to move forward for we would like to hopefully put them into the package for the state if not we'll seek um outside funding um however we can make it work for the projects deferred maintenance um as you can see this I I was walking up the stairs and I fell and my phone went off no
this is not what happened on this um we uh we have several older buildings that need to have some deferred maintenance this is our list of the immediate deferred maintenance um just it came up earlier that the state gives us $15 million per bium for deferred maintenance for the entire system Western Nevada college alone one of the two smaller institutions has more than 25 million in deferred maintenance Alone 7 and a half of which we consider critical which is why it's on the screen the $50 mil
lion you know shot in the arm we got last session helped us immensely it will continue to help us but those kind of things are what help help us because it's based on square footage and now there's a minimum threshold which keeps us at about a half a million dollars a year out of that $15 million pocket but the things that you see on here um are not things that donors flock to I do not have a donor yet that's come in and said let me do your hbac re retrofit right they're not going to do that the
y'll help us with other stuff but we have a we have an HVAC problem at one of the buildings in Fallon we have boiler Replacements in Carson lighting upgrades all kinds of different things that are deferred some of them relate to safety Ada Improvement all of it the price tag on that is 7.4 million so anything on that is um is uh we're trying to figure out how to fund those and move those through one one another when you have old buildings as I know the other presidents do and the snow hits us li
ke last year not just like today up there I mean we are doing all kinds of things finding we found every single room roof leak on campus last year because once the snow melted it the stuff started to come in so our our priorities for the session are on this final slide they do not include adjustments to the funding formula because that is a separate presentation I'm going to mention a couple of those before we close out and go to questions we of course would like to see the cola restoration of t
he base budget it affects us very differently than other institutions but it does affect us and we do want to Common approach on that so we're looking at the numbers there we need that Safety and Security the continuation of Nursing the renewal of the wind funds Pon education for us is an expansion the fee waiver support which is totaling 1 almost 1.4 million each year for us capital projects and deferred maintenance real quick before I go uh I'm going to close out and um I think that's the last
slide perfect um so we um uh a couple things on the funding formula committee I'm I'm happy to serve on that as the uh pres from the presidential bench on that I've gotten some feedbacks from colleagues I've picked up the pieces that we were all talking about the the discussion that happened earlier on the mission differentiation focused around a facility project and a in scope of offerings and I appreciate the three that are bringing that to the table as a discussion point the mission differen
tiation piece that we've talked about in the past it happened when I was in an acting president seat back in 2015 or 2016 and that's the last time I heard it brought up so I appreciate that because Mission differentiation and what we do at different types of Institutions whether you call them teers whether you call them community state colleges State universities universities R1 however you term it there are tears and all of that needs to be recognized and when community colleges who do the work
that all when all of us look at what we do we are the group that will take people that have chosen to or will not or cannot go somewhere else and so that in it of itself is a differentiated Mission doesn't mean that it's it's it's it's better worse than it doesn't we're not in the mood of saying put all eight of us in a room and let's hash it out we're all on the same page of us on either side about that we all do something different and that's what's acknowledged in the mission differentiation
and from my perspective speaking for the whole group that's the message I'll give when we get to do our presentations as the other three will get to do in the meeting in uh next month or this month now because it's March but the other piece is is that that needs to be acknowledged in the mission the fact that we've got community college students who if they walk from the parking lot to an admissions office and can't find their way will turn away and not do anything if they walk into my office l
ike the time I had a student come in and say I um you know I can't afford the book I'm going to drop out and I've got people overhearing it running in with dollar bills to say let's let's help pay for it so the student sticks around that is a very different Mission than an R1 or than drri obviously or any of the others that has to be acknowledged in the funding formula that has to be something we look at and when you say that then you differentiate the mission and say we're going to pay for more
things related to Mission there's a price tag to that because you're not going to take away money from a search mission or any other component from the other schools it all needs to be funded specific to the mission so I appreciate it the boards obviously after the discussion we had earlier going to entertain that discussion I think all of us up here bring bring a lot to the table that we can we can uh bring with that and then the final couple pieces on the formula Performance Pool is not reall
y a performance pool it's a let's earn it twice and then give you the money you had which is not a good practice but I would love to see because most of us up here have hit our Performance Pool at 100 plus percent but that plus percent doesn't give us any extra money to pay for anything going forward so we need to do if I'm at 110% of my Performance Pool goal if I can get 10% more anything would be great all it's doing is giving me what what we already earned and then the second piece from my pe
rsonal perspective not personal but my work at wnc as well as um soon to be are you are you officially acting interim you're you're interim in in Waiting interim in Waiting however P out I I'm G to make it easy Kyle and Amber the way we see the 17 the the uh the the counties that we represent the 15 counties and Joyce and I know she's already got a head start on the weather the way that we see the counties is we have a vast area as a rural community rural serving institution that is very differe
nt than Metro areas and so that small institution factor that again is another funding piece specific to a mission particular to a small college that needs to be maintained because we have to have certain things we cannot say you can't have this you can't have a president you can't have that the accreditation requires us to have certain things so that's another price tag and so so that all goes into that bucket of the ask and I hope um I appreciate U Chancellor Charlton um having taken notes on
that when I presented the first time and I'm happy to give you more but we we get all that into the bucket and we'll come out with something that's comprehensible so um so that's it so that's wnc and a little bit of the funding formula and one happy to answer any questions thank you president Alby questions from Regents Regent Cruz Crawford then Regent Brown Regent Cruz Crawford for the record I just wanted to thank you for the the prism program that hits near and dear to my heart my brother's i
ncarcerated and on death row so it's just really great to hear because we do know that education College and Career pathways are the best Rehabilitation right why do we offend in the first place so if you ever ever need any public comment when you're getting money from the legislators I'll definitely I appreciate support with that thank you if I could respond one thing real quick to I just want to make everyone aware too that are prisoners who have life sentences maybe with or without parole who
we have actually trained up to serve as pretty much as similar to teaching assistance in the prison and the and the Department of Corrections has uh of course they support the program and I should do a shout out to them uh because that actually helps the internal climate as well because they're they're doing things they're training they're getting jobs within the prison that benefit so if I I I have a feeling we we will need some support in 2025 just to tell the story so thank you uh Regent Bro
wn for the record I actually had a similar uh comment slash question about the prison uh program I looked on page 15 which was the eni specific slides um that talked about the 2025 2027 systemwide operating priorities renewal of ones shop funds and on that list was the prison prison expansion of a million dollars now I know three of our institutions run programs um in prisons uh GBC CSN so maybe you guys want to weigh in on this as well I'm curious with if we were to get this $1 million renewed
this next legislature how many students would that actually Encompass so um appreciate the question Regent Brown Kyle Delby for the record I'm gonna I'm gonna make I'll wait over here if I hear chatter over here that I misstate this my 426,000 is in that million dollars I believe like similar question so that's all that's all in there so the rest rest of it so it's almost half um so we will We what we're doing now is we have a part-time director that'll become a full-time director and then the m
ore important for Staffing is we will put in place a navigator so right now we are we we fluctuate because um there's if there's a behavior issue a student gets pulled out of it and so that's not on us so we fluctuate in the number of students anywhere between 50 and I think at one point we had 120 um we can easily uh start attracting almost upwards of another 50 students would be my guest without doing deep research on it one of the things to note though that we're struggling with right now is
that it's similar to when we talk about Community College mission in part-time students versus full-time students it's very small numbers of students which still take the same amount of resources because when a director goes in there or a faculty member goes in there they could be in the prison for a one and a half hour class for four hours by the time they Park check in move in and so it's very very labor intensive to do that so the expectation is not that we would double or triple numbers it's
that we would you know the if I say 50 more that's actually on the high side but we would we would slowly build and get more people into programs and add new programs we just added Automotive which immediately added six programs six students because that's the capacity of the lab so we can't like say we're 100 students in there but we could do multiple cohorts of that if that does that answer is that too vague it's it's I'm I understand that it is hard to um quantify the actual number but I tha
nk you for the wraparound understanding of it's it's that teachers time is also included in that not just the actual and the administrative time and one of the and I guess what I was trying to say and could have said it shorter um is we um we have put a lot into this program we appreciate the one shot appropriation that gets renewed but we are actually subsidizing it somehow with extra money because it is costing us a lot more than the 126,000 a year right now so this would backfill a little bit
and give us an option to expand um I think you know and I'm sure collectively you know Regent Cruz Crawford I'd also be willing to testify to this uh the legislature uh I'm part of leadership Las Vegas here in southern Nevada and we just had our criminal justice day and uh Metro's Captain came in and he actually highlighted the fact that these prison education programs were reforming so many uh prisoners and they were they highlighted it just on their own so this is making a big impact across t
he system and so I wanted to also just say that I I appreciate that we have also used our mobile lab which was funded through goed a win fund at the prison because we could bring the technology there and that it helps so thank you I appreciate it Regent Del Carlo thank you chair carvalo I want to thank you for your presentation because you I think you were the only one that asked for all this money and then there your very last slide was everything you're asking for listed because I was trying t
o figure out what the big ask is so I'm gonna ask that that um maybe Mr Chris Von could could do for all the institutions or you asked them to do it to send to you to send us do just like wnc did then I want to take those figures from each one and then how that correlates to what the N she ask was you know what I'm saying you got okay I think it would be really helpful um I'm a visual person sort of where where's Molly reminding me I like graphs but I think it would really make sense and if you
could do it maybe even like a matrix to where they all had um that uh the uh 80% formula you know the funding the cola part that wasn't right there's some similarities and have those all so we can see by institution what that grand total is and then their difference things I think that would be really helpful for us as we're building this budget thank you thank you for that Regent Del Carlo um I was hoping that you could form that as a motion um the agenda item asks for uh um the to take action
and it may give direction on further development and processes for determining budget priorities um so I would invite you to do that if you would like gosh I would have written this down so let me go I make a motion motion to accept the reports of the institutions and system administration and give direction to the CFO to put the information in a combined matrix by institution to determine our budget priorities for the 2025 banial operating budget and capital Improvement projects although I don'
t know if Capital Improvement projects should be part of this because that's not what we're doing today so take out the capital Improvement projects part that's my motion will that work um Mr wixon I believe it will does that address all of your concerns yes it does and just for the record um again uh interim Chancellor Charleston so what we will be doing is capital will come back separately because there is a different time frame so we're going to focus on operating and again what you've seen i
s those General themes and so putting that together in the manner that requested is not a problem at all and actually as we talk with the the institutions those numbers I have a feeling may increase across the board because we now have more information for example on one of the fee waivers that has grown significantly and we expect the same next year I I say I my advice would be reach for the stars on this one because they all they can always knock it down but it once you make an Ask they normal
ly don't put it up and my other comment is that after the legislature finished last year they came up with a lot more money I think they gave K through2 like an extra 200 million so I hope our institutions if that were to happen that we have those asks ready too second thank you so I have a motion from Regent Del Carlo a second from Regent McMichael I'm gonna go to Regent Goodman for a comment thank you chair I just wanted to make a just a general statement um our Cola funding needs to get back
to8 % instead of 80% of 80% um we need to fund gme funding that number was embarrassing $200 million for Texas and 20 million that we're begging for for Nevada um we're talking about uh facility issues uh old buildings old Labs there's just so much that that is needed and um I keep hearing how education is a priority for this state okay just across the board I keep hearing education's a priority it sounds really good but we need to start making education a priority and my issue is that as of Jan
uary 31st of this year the treasur the treasurer reported a 10 billion uh amount in our general portfolio 10 billion with a B okay that's a lot of money for the state to be sitting on and I am just putting on record that if education is a priority then we really really need to act like education is a priority we are doing great things here in this system and this board I think has come together we have great leadership and we have incredible presidents and I'm putting on record if education's go
ing to be a priority we have 10 billion dollars in our coffers that's just sitting there and I would really be anxious and thrilled and uh more than happy to work with the legislature so that we can get funded on some of these on some of these very important pieces thank you thank you Regent Goodman so at this time we will take a vote all those in favor please say I I opposed motion carries thank you we will move on now to item number 23 co-requisite mathematics and English update Vice Chancello
r for academic and student affairs Daniel Archer there we go thank you very much so this is Daniel Archer for the record here just want to kind of give you a little snapshot preview of what we're going to get into today um Brandon protus from complete College America is going to start us off and provide some background information and talk about some of the outcomes that we've achieved and then uh Dr Laura Decker is going to provide perspective from an English faculty member and then Chris King
is going to provide perspective from a math faculty member and then I will wrap us up so I'm gonna turn over to Brandon to get us started Dr Brandon protus assistant vice president of Alliance engagement at complete College America for the record Madame chair Regents and Chancellor Carlton Charlton thank you for inviting me here like to talk to you about the move to scale co-requisite support here across all of the public institutions in Nevada what you see here on your screen on the left is the
traditional prerequisite remediation model that was done in the past so when a college has a student take a placement test and they are deemed not College ready they don't have access to the college class instead they may take one two three or more prerequisite remediation classes before they ever have access to the college class what you see on the right is the model for co-requisite support and I want to point out that the default class is not the co-requisite support class rather the default
class is the College Gateway course that means all incoming students go directly in into the English or math college level Gateway course those who the college deems as College ready go directly into that as a standalone those who require more support still go into the college level course but they're offered co-requisite support in that same semester what I will say is it's more than just how those courses are scheduled is a deeper philosophical and paradigm shift for how colleges see and serv
e students because the prerequisite model is based off of a deficit approach students have to show what they can do before they have access whereas the co-requisite support is based off an asset-based approach that students are coming with funds of knowledge that they can tap into and activate it also use utilizes a different pedagogical just in time model with active learning so in 2019 uh n she commissioned a white paper to look into the move they had this idea that they wanted to do some refo
rm round developmental education practices in the state and what they found was quite simply the traditional prerequisite remediation does not work too many students are placed into remediation notice the students don't Place themselves it's the colleges that place students too many students are placed into remediation and very few one or two out of 10 make it to and through the college level course L loan onto graduation the psychological factors if you think about it you sign up for college an
d then you're told you're not really in college yet wait a semester a year a year and a half two years before you can really take the college level course and it has a disproportionate impact on students of color specifically black students Native American students and Hispanic students who are overly placed in remedial coursework I'll show you in a second that what we had seen nationally is that co-requisite support has significantly better outcomes for students getting to and through that coll
ege level course and we were all racing pilot programs and UNR and Nevada State University that was showing this and sometimes there was a belief that co-requisite support only works for students who are right there on the bubble who are placing right near that threshold but there was research that showed it benefits students at all levels of academic preparation so with this white paper and she showed some of the National Data this is from the 2014 cohort uh complete College America on the left
in the green is the for all students that were placed into remediate and then broken down by various demographic groups what we hear quite frequently is but our state is different and so I commend eni on this they looked at the state data and in fact they found two things on the one hand the data mirrored that of the nation but in some ways it was worse so while in Nevada 38% of students were being placed into prerequisite remediation 61% of students in the 2016 Gateway cohort were being of Ame
rican Indian or native uh students were being placed into remediation 56% of black students and 45% of Hispanic students seeing that this becomes an equity issue co-requisite support is for that initial momentum if students stop out or drop out before they ever get to that college level Gateway course they're not going to go on to completion and we see this on the data on the left is the 2014 cohort on the right is the 2015 cohort and I've circled and put the arrows to highlight those students t
hat were starting the college level course have significant better outcomes for degree completion than those who are starting at a high school level or in remedial courses so I referenced the National Data before and what you see in front of you is from a report that complete College America put out it's from the University system of Georgia and the reason why we showcase them is it's comprised of 26 institutions big small rural urban prominantly white HBCU hsis R1 Community College it has every
institutional type and what they found is when they started this is looking at throughput which is different than pass rate because you can have a good pass rate but as students uh either don't pass or if they do pass but say it's a long road and they stop out they never make it to the college level course so throughput is the percent of students who would start in remediation who passed that college level course within two semesters traditional prerequisite remediation 20% of their math studen
ts through put rate they went to a foundations course which was a one semester compressed course they saw some increase but when they fully scaled co-requisite support that 20% throughput rate went up 47 percentage points to 67% more than tripling of success for English it started at a higher rate of 45% went up 26% points to 71% throughput and I can't think of another Student Success measure strategy that has this kind of results and I talked about Equity of the overplacement of students into r
emediation co-requisite solves for that so what we saw in Georgia was you see here in LX white black p eligible or low income and first generation students math on top English below all had a throughput either just above at or just below the average for all students erasing that Equity or institutional performance Gap so I commend eni and I commend this board because of the foresight that they had to go through with policy so they started with the white paper and in 2019 they developed Statewide
policy that made co-requisite support the norm and got rid of prerequisite remediation that's the grass tops approach the Grassroots approach is saying there's two years now for the faculty to own this not buy into somebody else's Vision but to own it develop the curriculum do the professional develop that they needed to make this a success and you're going to hear about that in just a second 2021 full implementation of the policy and what we're seeing moving on from that point further is a cyc
le of continuous Improvement what works what are the pieces of the model that we need to tweak it's not a oneandone but it's something that you need to revisit and that's something you're going to hear about so we had high expectations we thought we knew what was going to happen but I'd like to share the results with you because we were blown away this is math that throughput rate that I spoke about so passing with a C or better students would otherwise start in remediation going through to that
Gateway College course with traditional remediation from the fall 2015 cohort 16% of students remember I said one or two out of every 10 it was 16% overall after full co-requisite implementation in math 58% that's more than a tripling of that pass rate and we're here about changing lives of students that's 232 more students we talked about the impact on racial equity and here we have the starting percentages from pre prerequisite remediation and the impact across racial and minoritized groups t
his is 172 more students who had the throughput passed Within two semesters of math course black students who passed and 869 Hispanic students so when we think about the population of Nevada this is what policy and implementation and practice do in English higher start rate of 34% moved to a 58% after full co-requisite support implementation that's a difference of 1,334 students and when it's broken down by race we see similar huge impacts 130 more black students who passed the English course wi
thin two semesters because of co-requisite support and 664 Hispanic students so with that um thank you I would like to now turn it over to Chris King who's going to talk about it from a faculty perspective as I mentioned this is the Grassroots approach of making sure that faculty are driving the co-requisite support Chris all right for record my name is Chris King um professor of mathematics at uh CSN so I'm going to talk about the experience of teaching cover uh courses yeah don't get okay so k
ind of a positive experience for this um basically we dealt with that students um are taking fewer courses for before their college level course which is great for students in that they're not stuck in the developmental loophole um trying to get there to their college level course for their major uh for the case of CSN class SES are a lot smaller uh we typically try to run our cor courses uh maxed out uh capped at 25 students um I know it may be different at different institutions but um this ac
t actually helps us out greatly be in that uh we're able to um be able to provide more individual instructions for students uh next uh ability to provide just in time remediation for students in courses uh this is very important and that we are able to provide um we able to basically uh teach prere topics for courses and then all of set and teach the actual topic for the college level course at the same time and not having to do a heavy load of front loading of material for students and last stu
dents determination is higher to complete the course for many of our students they feel like that hey this is my only class that I have to complete and they have a lot more determination in order to try to uh put the effort forward in order to complete the course some concerns over the cor one uh difficult teaching multiple uh levels of math in one course um this is predominantly um true in the correct course for college algebra and also for pre-calculus uh for many of our students at CSN they c
ome in with a variety of um abilities and everything and for many of these students um if we're trying to start at basic math and trying to get them up to the college level it's a lot of work um students lack of skills and what I mean by this is that for many students um a lot of them don't have really understand um how to be a student how to study um I have experience that for many students who are high school students who are taking our C- courses um a big thing is is that they don't want to c
ome to class so they feel that they really don't have to and then they're surprised um next um students ability to uh retain a large amount of material um especi this is especially um key is for the pre-calculus uh the expanded course um it's covering a lot of material in that course and for a lot of those students when you're in class for three um six hours a week uh for that course um them being able to retain the material and actually utilize that knowledge for their next course is a concern
and then finally students retaining information in sequential courses um I do teach a a wide variety of courses and I see that for many students who have come through the new corre model and everything that um their skills their skills were good when they were in the course but as they move up those skills are not there anymore so this is now creating kind of a domino effect of things that are happening in our courses that are sequential ligher okay thank you okay next um English Factory U persp
ective Laura Decker assistant professor of English and coordinator of first year composition at Nevada State University for the record um first of all thank you all for the opportunity to speak on behalf of my colleagues across the state um you saw the promising data in Brandon's presentation from complete College America um and I want to just continue building on some of the wonderful news of uh co-requisite English uh implementation across the state our faculty continue to work together across
institutions um and that's in part to and she building some really Dynamic opportunities as Brandon mentioned for um faculty to own that scaling process um and we continue to own that process as an example of this um some of our colleagues uh Marine McBride from UNR and Dean Strait from GBC um have created and are organizing some community of practice events for our co- Co co-requisite composition faculty um we started in August with uh an English co-requisite Symposium where faculty from acros
s the state could get together share best practices and build assignments together um and then those conversations have continued through virtual co-requisite chats we've tackled issues such as open educational resources Ai and large language learning models um and uh dfwi rates in co-requisite composition we're looking forward to our final meeting for the year in March um where we will be playing with dashboards um and our and the third annual NCH requisite conference where we will have an Engl
ish track um I want to share the words of one of my faculty members and colleagues Emily Hoover um she's a lecturer of English at Nevada State University and um she's also one of the Nevada State University kisite leads and of all these co uh community of practice events she said learning about the different approaches assignments resources and infrastructures at other institutions has impacted how I view our programs and current infrastructure for supporting corre requisite Learners also Emily'
s creative writing so she's not even in composition typically but she's learned to be part of that group in short there's much enthusiasm across the state for co-requisite composition and um we all view that institutional cross talk as a boon for our students and faculty however in those conversations we've also um identified some shared challenges one of them is that online co-requisite pathways are very popular but they have much higher dfwi rates for our students um at our last uh Community P
ractice conversation we talked about some um ideas for addressing that including increasing opportunities for building belonging in those courses um accountability um tools for to teach our students and then also working with advising to make sure that um students get a transparent message about what taking an online class will mean for co-requisite TMCC is working on embedding some online writing tutors they'll be running a pilot in the fall um and they hope to engage all of their um online co-
requisite students with these tutors they're going to be sharing some data after that fall pilot um the Second Challenge we identified is around those embedded tutors we know that embedded tutors are a high impact practice um and we also learned that faculty across institutions really want them in their co-requisite classes um but many programs noted that they lacked the funding or appropriate models for their co-requisite classes um some of these faculty have sort of cobbled together what they
could um to address the issue but we know that funding is needed to support and sustain uh embedded tutoring two more challenges we noticed one is um that with this increased attention to co-requisite sections um we or Co co-requisite composition we increased uh co-requisite sections and these have been really hard to schedule especially with our full-time faculty who are trained in co-requisite pedagogies um and so it's clear that we need more faculty in this critical area and then finally we n
otice that not all students engage in self-placement or have the metrics needed to place them appropriately which uh leads to some students being misplaced into co-requisite courses but also um increase sections that are hard to staff and so um we'll be working with advising particularly at my institution to make sure that all students engage with our self-placement survey or have the appropriate metrics and opt into or have a demonstrated need for co-requisite Education um in short the challeng
es are real but we look forward to continued collaboration across the state and hope for continued support from n to address those challenges thank you this is uh Daniel Archer again for the record here just to wrap everything up here and um just want to take a moment here and Express gratitude uh to The Faculty um for their time effort preparation that's gone into this this was a huge huge lift um so definitely appreciate them I want to thank complete College America for being a really good col
laborator and partner um obviously I was not here for this project but I have worked with them and other states and they've always been great to work with so appreciate them and lastly I do want to certainly pay respect to the board members who were serving back in 2019 I think there's two of you all uh that were serving back when this policy was approved in 2019 here um and you know when you think back to why you wanted to become a regent you didn't do it for notoriety I'm sure you didn't do it
for money you did it because you want to have an impact uh and this is a clear case and point where the board took bold action that had a positive impact on thousands and thousands of students so thank you for the work you did there you really um established the the foundation uh for these changes here and for this work um so we've definitely taken some very positive steps here I think the big question is is our work over and the answer is no um I would argue that this is more of a journey than
it is a destination we're continually trying to improve um I would say that the co-requisite journey really mirrors a lot of the the common themes if you've seen the movie Moneyball that's always what I think of when I think about co-requisite if you haven't seen that movie it's about the Oakland A's baseball team which um may be aware they're going to be playing about two and a half miles away from here in the next three or four years that's kind of exciting but the A's essentially challenge t
he status quo by implementing all these data informed um baseball strategies they drastically increase their wins and uh they break all these records and there's a scene where they're implementing all these big changes and and Brad Pit who plays the general manager Billy Bean is is sitting with the team and he's talking to them and he says this is a process this is a process this is a process that's exactly what co-requisite remediation is it's a process uh and there's opportunity for growth uh
and Improvement here so in terms of what we're going to be looking at going forward here um a lot of this work is going to take place in the math space here so um we created a math task force comprised of math faculty from across the state so each institution has a representative there so they're going to help guide some of the direction of our work here uh going forward here and so one of the big things that we want to look at at the outset here is to create a general education option for a sta
tistics course to have a a stat pathway um there's several disciplines where taking a stats course is far more relevant than taking say a college algebra as an example of some 's majoring in political science they're going to gain a lot more out of taking a stat course than they would a college algebra course so we want to be pragmatic here and prepare students for the most relevant MTH skills that are needed for their academic and career uh field of choice um and we feel like having a stat path
way will allow us to do that more effectively and um this has been done probably in about 20 to 25 States at this point here so uh we can absolutely do it it'll be a huge lift but it's something that's absolutely doable second big thing is we want to look at the use of multiple measures that are used for course placement purposes um we still have in some cases an overreliance on standardized testing um data shows that a high school GPA and grades in certain High School courses is a far better pr
edictor of success that's been proven in multiple data sets from multiple States across the country here certainly that is more reflective of students heart and grit compared to looking at one test on one day so um does that mean that standardized testing goes away no um there's still a place for it what we're really trying to do here is really enhance the process um and and have multiple measures it's really all about predicting success here uh and using uh predictive measures uh to ensure that
students are placed appropriately so we want to improve that process we really want to get to a point where we have uh common standards Beyond act and sat we have that right now we have a a requisite score for act that allows you to enroll in a college math class or uh do an English class which is great we have act we have sat but we really want to expand that and have some sort of high school performance metric at grade point average or maybe grades in certain High School courses um so we're g
oing to be uh looking at that here with this group and obviously bringing some English folks in as well to talk about the English side of that here third thing we want to do is revisit the U co-requisite pre-calculus track here and um Professor King talked a little bit about this here um the the outcomes in this particular course have not been as as as good so there hasn't been their performance there obviously so we may need to revisit the entry point here that that what allows someone to quali
fy for this course here different states have handled this in different ways so I think we definitely want to look at what's been done and some of the outcomes um so we could possibly mirror some things that have gone on elsewhere so we want to look at that here the other thing is we have a college algebra track and we have a pre-calculus track and the reality is there is some overlap there Most states only have one of those courses so we may only need to have one so obviously there'll be some d
iscussions in that space here and an additional piece that we are starting to look at um and some discussions with Regent Downs is um looking at a boot camp option for underprepared math students this would be set up in such a way where a student um who isn't ready to go into the college math class they would take a one to two week boot camp and really refresh and hone their skills um and then they'd be positioned to uh go in and take the college course so this would be I think really tailor mad
e for a student this is the region down just kind of repeating what he had told us in some conversations but um you have students sometimes that that come in and they were really good at math in high school but now they're 40 and they haven't had a math class in 22 years um so having a really intensive onewe refresher is really uh going to put that student in position to refresh review and then be well positioned to go into the course and perform well so that that concludes my presentation thank
you Mr Archer do I have questions uh I'll take the First with uh Vice chair DS then Regent boand then Regent Cruz Crawford thank you uh Vice Chancellor Archer appreciate the presentation and the acknowledgement of the areas that we're working on for the uh the boot camp I look forward to that coming to the board in June so we can uh hopefully pass something and make that available to the schools uh for the fall semester if they if that's what they'd like to do um just I like clarification since
you acknowledge there are uh regions here who were not on the board when it passed um and you mention what what got us on the board and this is actually one of those things that got me on the board but probably not because I was in favor of it it was more of when you have all the faculty in the system against it and gets pushed through I thought there needed to be a voice so I just want to talk a little bit about this um one of the misunderstandings I've talked to people about um is they they h
ave the impression that when students take a math or English co-requisite it's no additional cost or load to their schedule so what is the typical load of a if they're if they're doing a math and an English co-requisite what does that look like I mean how many credits is that that they're having to to pay for instead of the three and three now they might have in that one semester how much of their schedule is being occupied by corre math and corre English right it's uh so the additional kind of
supplemental instruction that's do co-requisite is one to three credit hours okay and so if you have in the way I've seen it play out like math 120 or 126 or 120 might be two 126 124 might be a three additional so you're talking five credits of math Six credits for uh 124 26 and on the English side might be five credit but right there you're seeing in the minimum 10 credits of someone's load being just math and just English and I appreciate uh Professor King when you you described the um student
s being in class for that long period of time absorbing that much material uh how that can be a challenge and I do also appreciate the acknowledgement that teaching 126 in this matter could also be uh a challenge for students to get that much material in I mean I I'll still Express what I expressed in 2019 having someone come in who can't add4 and 1/3 and then expecting them in the same class session to master adding rational functions it's it's quite a big leap and you lack that depth of knowle
dge that you would have gotten if they had more time to do it I'll say there are probably Pros to the co-requisite model but for me the the biggest negative is the choice that that the board at the time chose to take away Choice from students and schools so students have to do this program they can't choose to do one or two semesters of through mediation so there's my my concern about it um ultimately I want students to be successful and to get through the process and I understand that factor of
is it half half half for each remediation course you have to take I understand that that's a reality but it's about students having having the ability to make that choice of themselves how they want to pursue their academic preparation so um I'll let other people talk and ask questions I would like to get some input do we have any other math or English faculty here I'd like to get their input on how it's working uh we can do that after other regions have had a chance to talk thank you thank you
Regen boand thank you madam chair um Vice Chancellor ARA these uh charts that you showed us there's no suggestion from anybody that this is built in inherent racism that these races are doing the way they're doing that there's so many people from this race and this race and this race and the white race is only like 25 % who need these courses is it is somebody suggesting that this is done on the basis of racism or is that just the qualifications of the different races I think it's more to show
that this is something that brings everybody up when you look at each individual race ethnicity group um each one demonstrates um significant gains so I think it's just something that really moves the needle in every group and that's really what we end of the day we want Student Success for all students and this is something that puts us in a better position to do that thank you I have one more thing though that's very politically correct answer and I'll accept it but Professor DS just mentioned
having other math professors talk and I have the this question for them is what issues do you see and what fixes do we you know suggest or do we get going forward and that would be for Professor King Professor wheer because I spoke to him earlier and maybe also for Professor down here what what are the fixes we know the problem now so this prerequisite thing and pushing people into prerequisites uh what are the fixes yeah I think uh a couple of pieces just to kind of go back to what I touched o
n here um I think part of it is uh we don't have a statistics pathway and if we do that that will probably put some students in a different track where they're more likely to be successful so I think that's one piece in this I think the other thing I mentioned there is that the pre-calculus track in particular has been very problematic the students who have gone into that particular course and the co-requisite model have not performed well and so we may need to revisit that there's different way
s of placing students um university system of Georgia was mentioned earlier in the presentation and they have a little bit more of a rigorous standard to get into more of the college algebra pre-calculus type track so we may want to adopt something similar here and certainly I think we're open to any any feedback that comes my way and and discussions uh with the chief academic officers and obviously with you all as the board thank you thank you madam chair thank you Regent Cruz Crawford Regent C
ruz Crawford for the record Regent boand you can look at the college readiness data dashboard to see some of the historically um gaps Equity gaps with um Readiness um I wanted to share the K through2 kind of perspective I appreciate um this work um I appreciate that it's not dumbing down education it's it's holding a standard and providing um providing a pathway at the same time holding the standard um what I wanted to share were just a a few things in the K through 12 space um the difference be
tween math 96 entry and math 120 entry is one act Point uh our kids take their act in their junior year they just took it last week my son just took it last week and so a difference of one so if he um got a 21 he can get he bypasses a year of math if he got a 20 um and additionally math 122 is is 22 so that one point um I know that we have some of those jumpstart act courses that guarantee three to four points I see this as something that is very similar but at the college level um if the resear
ch shows that 11th graders can get a jump start um weekend course and bring up their ACT score one this this makes logistical sense another thing that um I would like to share our state as a whole has students their senior year of high school um graduating right now with a 19.6 math perc proficiency that means um two out of 10 students um within the state of Nevada are graduating on ready for ready for college and so as we look at um at these co-requisite courses what we're really doing is we're
creating a bridge from the problems that are existing in that in that K through 12 space um I see it as a necessity and I appreciate um the work that's being done um because this is going to continue to become a a a sadurn and sadder percentage rate um as we don't have um licensed teachers within the classroom and so getting them through this program I think is is the co co-requisite courses is actually um really helping and it's not lowering the standard it's really keeping the standard there
and giving those scaffolds which we have to do all the time in in the K through 12 space so I appreciate um the Forward Thinking of the committee and I look forward to supporting any way that I can as a k through2 educator in in um helping giving feedback on on those pieces thank you thank you Regent Cruz craford I'm gonna go to um Regent Del Carlo next thank you chair caral I'm really glad to see this on our agenda today and um I'm really really pleased with results I was one of four Regents th
at was on the board in 2019 in addition to my colleagues Regent carvalo and McMichael and Perkins that's okay you're new you're new would you know that so there was four of us and um I was really really pleased we did this because what we were doing wasn't working and you're right it five students out of a hundred would even finish and that's a terrible statistic and we haven't said this but for those that are new when you take the remedial you you're not eligible for pel it doesn't count for an
y credit and then the student gets I think very very discouraged because here they've taken you you mentioned in your remarks year or two of these remedial classes and what do they have to show for it they have nothing so I really applauded our arsa department at the time they brought that in they brought National experts in because this is a trend around the United States and this is what we're supposed to be doing as a board um we go out and seek the best see what the trends are out there and
what's working so bringing this in was a gamble well no I wouldn't say a gamble because the data was there but it did come with a lot of resistance there's no doubt about that what uh Regent down said there was resistance um it was strong and and I just equate that to change people don't normally like change but we've got enough time and data now and I think the fact that the arsa department works so well with the this is my view I'm not down on the ground with the rest of you guys but for my vi
ew you all work so well together that shared governance listening to each other and maybe it wasn't perfect and that's why we're looking at it today how we can enhance but the numbers are just astounding I mean I'm just you told me when we talked about this and we met earlier that I would really be pleased with the numbers and I'm thrilled with the numbers I'm really thrilled with the numbers um as someone who just got here I'll take all the credit by the way that's okay and and to a regent um C
ruz Crawford point if our students came out of K through 12 prepared we wouldn't be needing to do this but we're public institutions and that's a bigger problem too one of my questions to you is are we sharing these results with anybody with say in Clark County School District or the was County School District or the state superintendent Joan Ebert lady and know that this is what we're doing and this is why we're doing it and future I mean that's one question I have and I have a couple I think t
hat's a terrific point and I I we have not done that I think there's I'm sure some Avenue that we can do that for sure okay so I think that'd be great okay because sometimes yeah people don't know they have a problem till they're shown the problem and to me you're showing data so I mean that would be great to to Regent Ban's point on the slide one of our main goals is to close the achievement Gap so whatever it is you're measuring you measure it against whatever group is the best and you can pic
k lots of different categories but that that one slide if the white students the highest then it's our job as the board to close that Gap and bring up anybody that's below that I know Western Nevada college did that with their cohort of Hispanic students by putting the proper resources and wraparounds to it and now if am I may be mistaken but are the Hispanic students continuing to outperform the white students um president dpy yes thank you Regent De Carlo Kyle DY for the record the um the Lati
no cohort is at a higher graduation rate by three or four percentage points than than the overall College population okay so I mean my my point is that that's why they they measure at that because we want to close those gaps every student has the right to a great education and to have what everybody else has I want to see if I got it all I was making notes as you guys were talking but I think I've got it all my points but I really pleased and I just want this improved and I hope this board never
doesn't do this until we change or you know completely equalize those gaps thank you thank you I'm G to open it up I see that there might be a few um of our faculty members from faculty Senate who might be interested in chiming in um I I have Molly Apple thank you so much chair carvalo I did just want to respond to um Regent Down's uh invitation for other uh English faculty to speak I put that head on thank you so much Regent DS for your your thoughtful concerns and um I'm glad to be able to ha
ve this conversation I'll share in my in my role as assistant professor of English at Nevada state I I don't personally teach co-requisite courses but I work very closely with my colleagues um students who do and um one of the things I want to really relay underscore the importance of is how co-requisite college credits are college credits as opposed to remedial courses which students essentially end up dumping money into without advancing degrees um and I can't underscore the importance of that
when you're looking at the these small differences in time to degree completion and the impact that that can have um but I you know I really hear and and feel deeply as an educator you're concerned for sort of the challenge of trying to differentiate to such what can be widely different needs in student classrooms and I I want to emphasize the way the program doesn't leave um faculty alone to do that I think um uh um our vice I'm sorry I forgot your title Vice uh Vice Chancellor Archer um menti
oned the uh embedded support models and the the tutoring opportunities that that are really a crucial crucial part of of our program um and I can't underscore uh how impactful those those peer um those peer mentors and that that system is in in enhancing that kind of differentiation and support as well as the the excellent um pedagogical approaches that our faculty take and I think that a number of the workshops that Dr Decker my colleague mentioned have have played an important impact on facult
y sense of um confidence and ability to to to meet those different needs along with those other supports and so I think that the the scaffolding really is important here I'm going to Echo Regent Cruz Crawford um and say that I do think this is an example of how a higher ed can be and is learning from a lot of the excellent pedagogical practices that K12 pk12 has and it can be um a good model looking forward of our investment in that pk2 mindset for um the students of Nevada thanks for giving me
the opportunity to speak again chair thank you yes Mr Villa Patrick Villa vill via for the record and in addition to being the CSN faculty Senate chair I'm also a math professor Professor um I have the unique experience where I was on the original task force before way before about 12 13 years ago and we changed some things we got rid of a couple remedial classes we we made some rules and then I was on it again when they decided to implement what they did um the first thing that I Echo what Vice
chair down said it it worried me a lot it bothered me a lot was that many times told we are the subject matter expertise people and when every single math faculty and every single institution was not happy with this it was done anyway I was literally told before that one board meeting where I first ever spoke to the board doesn't matter what you say this is passing today Patrick is what I was told we still talked but you know I knew I it was it was a Dead Issue um there's a couple things I I st
ill worry about you know I do believe there are some great things on it for the math 120 class the students that are not doing anything that stem at all I think it's great they don't need to waste their time with three four classes when they have no desire to be in math it's those other classes we worry about and the thing that we were most vocal about was literally math 126e as as we've heard changes need to be made and and this is what we foresaw and this is what we worried about um other thin
gs this one siiz fitall is is an issue you know treating all the class that they had to be the same makeup everybody had to get into the first gateway class no matter where you stood and the other issue it's important that no one talks about is community colleges versus the four years same rules same everything remember four years have standards to get in they have to be accepted they have to meet certain criteria and sad to say community colleges you pretty much just need a little bit of a puls
e and you're in and and I'm not knocking our students but I'm saying there are students that come from all of life we have students who cannot as as Vice chair down said I have students who cannot add or subtract sign numbers and I have to get them through pre-calculus in 16 weeks six hours a week that is the equation and what's the matters I can maybe do that but what about the students who already have all these abilities they get bored they get tired they drop and that's one of the sad things
and it's literally like I won't pick on anybody but how many of you hate math on the board I bet you there's a few of you you don't have to raise your hands but a few of you hate it haven't had it in years it's like me having you and Prof uh Dr DS in a class and I'm saying we're all going to learn the same thing one of you is going to be way behind or one of you is going to be bored out of your mind and and and this again you have to do everything the same it it's it's just something that we tr
ied to get people to look at and and vice chair down said it options are always good to me some students really did thrive on taking multiple prxs I agree that it is hurting a lot it was hurting a lot of students and this is a great path but did we have to pick one or the other could we have not have said hey CSN start offering a few of these correct courses let's ramp them up let's see how it goes and then do the other ones and we can get a true sample comparison but no we were told kill all th
ese go to these people will figure it out and and and it's it's the that process there um there's a ton I mean I'm worried about that I'm going to talk about two things the com the the data we saw from 16% to 58% at one graph great numbers but if you look at it carefully it's completion of Gateway math within the first year Well by the old model of 16% realize some of them had to take two to three to four prerequisites it was darn near impossible to mathematically get even if you were doing an a
work you can't finish in one year when you have to take five classes in succession versus one class I agree like I said it's good but it's not as as off you know it wasn't that much of an improvement in what we're talking about you also have to look at it's not enough just to pass the class I care the most about how do they do in the next class are they truly ready when I get them in pre-cal Cal One Tap Cal 2 Cal 3 and you talk to our professors that's our biggest complaint when they get to Cal
one they can't do a lot of stuff and this is again studying all semester for the final exam is the old way and it's the hard hard way studying the day before in cramming you may pass the final you're not going to remember it next semester you're not going to get it retained in your brain and again I'm I'm going back to the choices my only last thing I'll say am I complaining here I'm sorry um multiple measures I like the idea to an extent when it says I'm not picking on you Vice Chancellor sorr
y when it's when there's someone saying you know it's been proven around National numbers that GPA has an effect is it the same GPA is Nevada as Clark County where everybody starts at 50% where you get to make up tests as many times as you want I worry about looking at that GPA to place a student in one of our calculus pre-cal courses and I also going to say philosophically I'm not sure how taking no offense Molly an English class a history class and you get all a in those and you fail math you'
re going to have still a decent GPA doesn't mean you you know I actually look at that as you're hurting in math if the multiple measures went both ways like maybe certain gpas would pump us up and and let them in that's good but also if I see red flags in the GPA like they failed algebra even though their GPA was 3.7 I might say you're not you can't you're actually going to go down so I think it's got to work both ways not just only going to benefit but and I apologize for being so long but that
's my my talk thank thank you uh region breaker I guess what bothers me the most is is that we this has been going on 20 30 years it's not like it just came on in 2019 or 25 or whatever and it's to me and I don't want to be negative it's not going to change until our Public Schools change and unless we align ourselves better and work with them we're going to keep having this conversation like so I'm in real estate I do math I'm going to call it basic math day in and day out doing net sheets lett
ing people know what they're going to give doing interest rates I mean so I have that when I went to school if you were a business major you took business one business two math you know basic math you took uh bookkeeping one two three four it was that's what helped me create the Career Technical academies is I came from that type of education and I knew it would work here but saying that the other thing that bothers me is a remedial word and I think why a lot of people don't want to do this is b
ecause you've categorized them it's the kid that had to go to and I worked for thiso School District in elementary schools the kid that had to go to Resource room what did he feel like he or she when they pulled them out I don't think we're being realistic I think we're being Academia I'm not Academia and I don't apolog for it I've done very well in life um but I think we need to look at this broader I think that ourself we as Regents or educated Academia cannot solve this if the CCSD or the was
show or our state does not do do what they need to K through 12 and I I just I have to I sat here thinking I wouldn't say anything but I think that's the problem and so and getting word of the remedial word there has to be a better way to get people to be comfortable and sometimes and I said this in the UNLV Senate meeting I think Academia forgets when you are in it so long that there's regular people out there hardworking plumbers electricians gardeners I won't go on but it's one of my passion
s that all people are important I'd rather the chancellor didn't come to work versus the custodian okay I worked in a school if the principal has gone for a week who ran the school myself and the other staff member in the office I I didn't have that I mean and you know that so I mean I know but what that's what I and I don't mean that that's not a slam but I have done that for weeks on in bus Duty uh everything so so it's not about how smart you are with your degree it's how you use it and and s
ometimes people have degrees that they're and I'm not trying to slam degrees um as you all know I do not have a college I do not have a college degree and I'm quite proud of what I've done in life but it was a different generation for me um anyway I think the remedial word I think working more strongly with I don't want to just say CCSD but our uh public education system is what will change our system that's it good deal well and I and I will give um Crystal Abba and Renee and the other folks th
at worked on the policy nomenclature because they were really explicit I I may have said remediation because the state I was in we were still saying that word but they have explicitly called it co-requisite support so I think that was a certainly a concerted effort there to to not use that language appreciate the thought though I would say the other thing um we have our math pass Force I mentioned that we have representation across the state we do have some K12 books on there as well so I think
we're hoping to have some cross-pollination and some overlap there I'm sure some things have gone on and at the local level here but we want to have more maybe a coordinated effort so I was on the school board 30 years ago things have not changed I've been gone for uh 12 on the commission and five afterwards and now two years here please I I just find it every time a superintendent SE speaks I feel like I need to leave the room um no disrespect but it's a and I went to school here so and so do m
y kids grandkids and now great grandkids we need to quit talking about it and we need to make sure that either legislatively or CCSD really gets their act or I don't want me to just pick on them that um Public Schools really get their act together so I appreciate you but I'm not going to quit preaching this I'm not here because I needed to be I want to be Chancellor Charlton thank you um for the record Chan Patty Charlton interim CH interim Chancellor so I wanted to just um to just say that one
of the things that we are doing um Daniel and Renee as well as myself is we are working with the state superintendent because it's not a blame game it's just a problem that needs to be solved and we recognize it it's not just at um the high school level we're seeing this and in English um in reading the fact that we have low uh percentage of third grade children that can read um by that level there's challenges in math we actually need to reach down further to solve this challeng particularly wi
th math more along the Middle School level to help um build that that success pathway forward um we are very much working together in fact I think um correct me if I'm wrong but the state superintendent is participating in some of the work that she on the task force yeah she's on the task force and so this is a challenge for all of us to solve um as well as getting our um our education faculty uh together in fact um president Pard has uh a representative on a committee working with the state sup
erintendent in I think it's literacy right now and that will continue to work and so or we're going to continue to expand that but it's um a challenge for all of us to solve and we're committed to working together thank you I'll just say that that I I feel that the board took a bold Innovative approach when when we did this and um I I think there's always room for for improvement and new ways of doing things and and I hear that with with everyone who's who's spoken on this um but I'm proud of th
e direction that we're moving forward with this so thank you um Vice Chancellor Archer for this presentation I one more thing yes I'll be brief I do appreciate you working with me and some other ideas to make things different I realize bringing this forward wasn't you that was you just came into the role so I don't put all my feelings about what what transpired on you but I also appreciate uh Professor uh via am I saying it right Villa to uh for your comments and your analysis and um I forget yo
ur last name Apple sorry and Professor Apple so um and I you know I I would appreciate any any inclusion of faculty in any future developments of this program okay thank you thank you all right we will move on to item number 24 uh Personnel session employment agree agreement president Keith E Whitfield UNLV so as part of uh the process of evaluation and um continued uh relationship with President Whitfield uh it's now time for us to uh consider his his next uh Employment contract which will go f
rom August 24th 20 24 to August 25th 2028 um I you all have the um the contract and the term sheet um I'll entertain a motion or questions or comments Regent Del Carlo thank you uh chair Calo I'd like to make a motion to approve a new employment agreement with UNLV president keithy Whitfield which includes the contract terms and conditions as provided in our briefing paper thank you Regent El Carlo and then I have a second from Regent boand yes ma'am thank you uh I'll open up for discussion Rege
nt Brooks do you have anything you made the motion no I'm good thank you for asking thank you chair I appreciate that I just wanted to there there are a couple things regarding the contract that um are not reflective of my interest in um uh seeing president Whitfield continue on in this capacity as we voted on accepting the surveys yesterday unanimously but in the contract itself um here's where I'm getting stuck in article 4 it's section 4.4 when it is comes to the reporting process of how thin
gs work for presidents and what I would say is this is something that I would imagine would be in the contract for all presidents there's a clause there where the reporting is very specifically outlined uh to the chancellor and what I can tell you is it was in November of 2022 there was a ad hoc committee put together and there were certainly a lot of conversations that took place and this ad hoc committee concerning roles executive roles and what they would look like and so I'm going to read so
mething that if I can I need to interrupt you regiment Brooks uh the reporting line is according to board policy and if you're going to talk about reporting lines that needs to be agendized separately that's a separate issue that has not been agendized and should not be discussed if you did it would be a violation of the open meeting law so the reporting lines that are in the contract or reporting lines that are consistent with board policy as they exist at this time you know I I I appreciate th
at that observation um however this is a contract that's coming forward you can discuss this contract you cannot discuss policies relative to reporting lines because those are a matter of board policy so if to the extent that the contract reflects board policy that's board policy and if you want to change board policy you you can agendize a separate item to talk about board CH policy but the contract is written reflects board policy yeah here's where I'm going to be a little bit um I'm intereste
d then if there is a piece of this contract that is in my opinion not reflect Ive of communications this board had regarding executive positions what you're simply suggesting is I should not bring that up I'm suggesting exactly that even though even though this is the contract that we have to approve that's exactly right board Communications are different than board policy if you want to change board policy you agendize board policy and change board policy Communications amongst board members ab
out their desires for board policy are not changes to board policy and to the extent that you're going to discuss changes to board policy as to reporting lines that has to be agendized separately well this this isn't really a discussion about changing board policy as much as it is a clear observation that the board was moving in a direction and it's very possible that things slip through the crack regarding implementation of things that would have happened during that dur to implement those chan
ges they would have to be agendized and noticed and what I'm saying is any discussion of board reporting lines in this meeting at this time in this way is a violation of the open meeting law if you'd like to discuss reporting lines you can agendize that separately and we can certainly do that and the board can do that and you can create a separate agenda item but if you if you continue discuss reporting lines that has not been agendized this contract and the reporting lines in the contract refle
ct present board policy that has not been amended so it's a little frustrating to not present something to this board that is part of a vote on a contract where my concern as a regent is both the protection of the board and the protection of of presidents I can understand your for frustration but if you want to address that as a matter of board policy it's an agenda item that needs to be agendized now board policy as exists right now calls for the presidents to report to the chancellor that's a
board policy decision that's reflected in board written board policies this contract reflects that reporting line any any discussion about that reporting line would be a violation of the open meeting law just so that we're clear president Whitfield and the rest of the board I'm not going to be able to approve the contract as it is written there are obvious concerns that I have regarding language of the contract um and that is the only reason that um that for me I won't be able to approve the con
tract but I I certainly approve and am am happy to see you continue on on at at unov thank you chair thank you Regent a Scot I'm gonna be careful also after reviewing the contract what I noticed is that according to the very first page of the briefing material this is not a four-year contract this is a six-month contract and that and that voices great concern or not just for president whitfield's sustainability on campus but we need to give the assurance that when a president agrees to a contrac
t of this sort that they could not be terminated without cause and just pretty much asked to put on their fees and to walk out and and that's concerning for me because the six-month contract on the very first page it is it does not make sense um that's number one item for me number two item is the cola president willfield according to uh 5.1 B on the supplement material will only receive approximately 60% of the cup while every other system employee will receive 100% of the calls so what I'm say
ing is that other in presidents who in the middle of the contracts right now will receive the full col my question is while President Whitfield will only receive approximately 60% so the region we approved 100 we approved full Cola for all in she employees so why is it changing now for just one person I'm GNA Bo that over to Mr Martinez I'm guessing um thank you for that question Regent Aris Scotta I think that it's probably if with your permission um might be more appropriate for Mr gilland who
is the our Chief Human Resources officer sure thank you they're they're deliberating and he's coming to the podium now thank you good afternoon for the record Eric Gillen and Chief Human Resources officer if I heard correctly the first question was around the six month correct so so that provision of the contract is specific to um the board should the board take action to terminate without cause the president would receive a six-month uh buyout in addition to six months of Cobra premiums that w
ould be separate the the contract is for four years that is a separate provision that would only be enacted if this board uh took action to terminate without cause the second question was around the cola piece and I'm going to look yeah it's exactly it's it's exactly why is why is president leld only receiving approximately 60% of the cola well we approved full colos for all in employees in December why is he the only one person in the system now the only person not receiving the Cola with this
new contract so I believe the the cola piece would apply not to the upcoming fiscal year 205 I got to do my math it's late in the afternoon I'm not great at math so adding I apologize back to the previous um he would receive the full 11% cola this contract would take take effect in August so he would receive the full 11% that Cola language would apply to any future colas should they be uh authorized by the legislature so what you're saying sir is that we will be rewriting the contract because th
at's not what it says in the contract the the contract language would be for the future colas he his current contract that's in place now which would be in place when the cola has become a effective while we're delaying the payment of colas they they they're effective July 1 we're delaying the payments to October 1 he would receive the full 11% the language in the current contract would apply to any future colas should they be approved by the legislature and and if I could uh for the record just
Chancellor Charlton um that would also address the consideration should we not have restoration of the cola at the future percentage that or the the past percentage as what has been advocated by this board as a priority um moving forward with the legislature so that would be for FY 26 and Beyond and so it is our desire for everyone um because I know that the board did have some conversation previously but that we will be able to restore back to the full amount of cola okay because this contract
is going to be commencing on commencing on August the 24th therefore president Whitfield would be eligible to receive the four Cola correct that is correct yes okay um so going back to the first page my first question on the first page of the provided documentation why the six month you say that's for our coverage but it's no cause so we can say president Whitfield you wear squeaky shoes your jackets are too big your glasses are not matching your cologne is horrendous I I'll be it that's not tr
ue president Whitfield you're a handsome man you do everything right well what I'm getting at is if it's no cause six months is not going to give other presidents down the road any sort of a willingness to agree to a contract so for no CA months yeah so forther record again Eric Gillan um if you would note in uh and I want to keep it on President whitfield's contract language specifically I'm looking Mr wixon's got his hand up I'm GNA pause yes I'm I'm just gonna go to Mr Wixom for thank you Mic
hael Wixom for the record and thank you for patience Regent Eris Scotta I just want to clarify one point and and certainly the contract may be written I didn't negotiate the contract so I'm not familiar with the terms on a granular level but any termination of a president would require that the parties involved the chancellor the board chair and the board follow board policy and so while certainly it can it can provide a no cause termination any termination still has to go through the processes
set forth and the policies of the Board of Regents so the Board of Regents would participate in any process so for whatever reason uh as you said maybe president Whitfield didn't shine his shoes one particular day and it made somebody aggravated so in that case if somebody said I'm going to exercise my right to terminate this contract you would still have to go through board policy so there's that protection in place does that provide any guidance and help in that regard yes but it's not somethi
ng that I accept because the board policy is a majority vote it's not a 2third vote looked up that board policy also I I understand and I appreciate I just wanted to clarify for the record that it that it's not anything that happens would have to be happen with the board involvement and and I would add again Eric Gillan for the record the the current contract uh for president Whitfield actually includes a clause uh termination without without cause um the reason that we now have the the new prov
ision is that the previous Clause uh essentially removed the presidential duties in in that case removed housing car allowance but but kept the president as an employee receiving monthly payments of their base salary um quite frankly that that's awkward um if if we have a president who we say we don't want you to be president anymore but we're going to keep you as an employee until such time as you as you find another job because there is a mitigation Clause that once a job is is found that paym
ent stops that's awkward um so to clean up that process and to allow for a clean separation in those cases um we revised that provision it's not a new provision um section but it is a new approach to it in terms of a six-month lump sum payment as opposed to keeping them on the payroll month-to month until they find another job um so it's not new to the contract uh for for president Whitfield or for many of the other presidents that that does exist currently so what if we happen to have a preside
nt who doesn't have the credentials or certif appliations to teach a college class and I think want to make sure I understand I think you're speaking to the the presidential transition process the post-presidency process in in in that case then uh they would not be eligible uh for that provision there's not a requirement um that they be allowed to transition unless it's spe specified in the contract and in president Whit fields that is not uh a requirement specified it is an OP option in that ca
se they would receive the lump sum payment and and they would pursue uh other career options that were available to them it is our hope that we never have to imp this ref sorry the in the lumsum payment you're referring to is the six month note without cause termination correct there is not a carrot being dangled enough in front of anybody to to agree to this contract and I don't know why someone would right or agree to a six-month not cuse I I would offer that the the current contracts have tha
t not for caused language and and actually under the current contract language um could be less than six months that they would receive that monthly based salary um because they have to work diligently to find other employment if that were to occur under the current contract within 30 days they would only get a one payment 30-day payment of their base salary in this new contract they are getting a full six months base salary plus coverage payment for their Cobra premiums for that six-month perio
d as well uh I I guess I would offer that it that it's it's it's consistent with with best practices when you are looking at a termination not for cause to to provide that clean separation um and is an enhancement uh of the the existing provision I would also know and we're going to be talking about the other contract we do have contracts that don't offer even at a minimum hey if I need to caution everyone we're not here to talk about other contracts that would be a violation of the thank you ap
preciate that you're on it I love it so and Mr Wixom I know we're not here to talk about other contracts but so from the sound of it each individual contract from now one will be written independently to Sue that one president so in the I'm going to stop here and let other Regents discuss um but I want nothing but the best for president withfield he he so rightfully deserves all of this but I think it's insulting to state that he can be terminated without cuse he is a fine man he is a great he's
a great leader on that campus he's one of the best that's been on that campus we need to do everything to to R him however making the statement of terminating him without cause in six months of compensation is insulting to him and embarrassed for me for the system thank you uh thank you region Eris Scotta I'll I'll just Echo what Mr gilland has said that that that Clause is in the contracts now in in some form or another um so this this was not new um we We There was an attempt to um make the l
anguage more clear um I also believe that it was it also falls in line with other administrators within our system as well um I I don't think that this is is meant in any way to be an insult to our presidents and like I said it's it's part of the the current contracts as well um so I appreciate your concern um I I I personally don't think it's it it is um it it is in any way insulting to our to president Whitfield in this case are there any other questions or concerns regarding this we do have a
motion in a second on the floor uh yes Regent McMichael uh looking at the base salary I just was wanting to know how that was calculated is is that a high mid-range or low figure uh for the record Eric Gan so the base salary that's in the new contract is consistent with with uh president whitefield's current base salary so there's not a a change in that um I don't have the market data readily available um for for where that falls um based on looking at just generic data the other day um it it's
uh above the median for for comparable positions um so I I would say it's it's competitive it's matching when you're at the meeting you're matching the market so we're we continue to match the market uh with with the base salary by keeping it the same so so can we give him more I I guess that that could have been negotiated um but at at that as of what's been presented for approval today it's the existing base salary all right thank you okay so we will go to a vote um I I think that it's probab
ly appropriate to do a roll call vote um Carrie are you ready I'm ready thank you thank you that's right Regent Brooks you're up first for the vote thank you yeah I'm a I'm I'm a know based on the way this contract's written Regent Brown yes chair carvalo yes Regent Cruz Crawford yes and I appreciate you Dr Whitfield Regent Del Carlo I mean for that absolutely yes Vice chair Downs yes Regent Goodman yes Regent McMichael yes Regent Perkins Regent tanian yes Regent Aris Scotta I don't like this co
ntract but yes Regent boan hi Regent breaker yes the motion passes thank you Carrie congratulations President [Applause] Whitfield um I I know we're short on time I I tried to cut my presentation of budget stuff down a little bit unlike others but so I'm going to take just a minute just to say first and foremost thank you all very much for the confidence that you have uh offered in terms of your confidence and renewing me um I've told people this before this is the best job I've ever had and I'v
e had a lot of jobs and as difficult of a job as it is you all make it better by making sure that you actually talk to me about the things that are going on on our campus and our state I love having conversations about highered philosophy leadership thoughts all of those conversations are extremely valuable to me um second I'd like to thank the faculty and staff at UNLV um the the review is so interesting so another piece and I'd kind of like to offer this as a gentle aside to region Aris scata'
s Point um I am a little bit of a different fish anyway um I'm a tenur professor in two different departments so basically you can't get rid of me um and so just just keep that in mind you know you can you can do all of that I'll take the six months and go somewhere and then I'm going to be right back here um but the the review that was provided the process that was provided um did give me some um points to be able to think about my leadership um I push my leadership team to constantly try to im
prove themselves and I hold myself to the same standard and so I want to thank everyone who participated in that there are some uh valuable gems in that information that um I'll go and have a few drinks and then I'll start working on a little bit later uh and then lastly I'd like to say that um I'd like to thank the students at UNLV um and even the ones throughout the system who I get to meet at these meetings and get so impressed by um I'll just say believe it or not I'm even still a funded res
earcher I I don't have to be a president um many are very surprised that I'm a president because they've known how I've done my career which is a bit rebellious a bit non-traditional but interestingly enough I feel like that's what helps me to fit in this particular position but honestly um it's been the students who I've seen who have done amazing things did you know we graduated one of the Blue Man Group last at December I mean what other job in the world do you get to say that that's what you
did as you were walking this guy across the stage but it is seeing the amazing things that our students do um I really appreciated the earlier conversation about how we can try to maximize their Student Success that should be and should always remain top priority for us it is what I go to sleep and wake up every morning thinking about and I think that that is part of what creates the camaraderie that we have amongst the system particularly I'd also like to thank my uh fellow presidents that um
you all see it you have a really good I've heard stories that have happened over time you have an excellent group of presidents that are here and I want to say that as you're looking for a replacement which I don't even know if you can call it a replacement cuz no one replaces this man this is going to be one of the most significant losses that we have that we will see here recently and we have to figure out how we can find somebody that can try to fit those shoes but it's people like him that a
ctually have made me better um today's March 1st on March 2nd I'm going to start um the next four years worth of trying to to be the kind of exemplary leader that you're looking for so again thank you very much [Music] [Applause] thank you president Whitfield we look forward to your next four years next is item number 25 Personnel session employment agreement president kamuda charia um so we have all of the information in front of us again and I will open it up for comments or questions Regent G
oodman I move to approve second okay I have a a motion from Regent Goodman and a second from Regent Brown is there any other discussion yes Regent Brooks thank you chair I appreciate it um president Charlie you and I spoke about this earlier and and I am concerned about the way some of this contract language is um you know it's it's it's unfortunate that this is where it's landed at least I find this unfortunate um I am certainly a a yes to you um uh as you know I've I I'm a huge supporter of th
e things you have going on as well as the things that President Whitfield have going on but um I'm I'm really uncomfortable with some of the language in this contract thank you chair thank you any other questions or comments before we take the vote Yes Regent boand comment uh yeah it's it's a comment actually thanks for your hospitality uh draria I I think I like you a weee bit more today because yesterday you gave us all Pen Knives in the thing that always goes well with me thank you thank you
region AOS Scotta to Echo my previous comp my previous comments I just feel that you know according to the first page this is a not a four-year contract it's six-month contract president charia has done amazing work that has taken drri to the next level and everything that they are producing is positive and positivity for the state of Nevada the United States and [Music] globally I just feel that it is somewhat disingenuous about on the first page number six of the termination without cause but
president charia is he's absolutely fantastic and I will be in support of this contract thank you we'll do roll call vote again please Carrie Regent Brown yes Cher carvalo yes Regent Cruz Crawford yes Regent Del Carlo yes Vice chair DS yes Regent Goodman an enthusiastic yes Regent McMichael more money yes Regent Perkins Regent tanian yes Regent Aris Scotta yes Regent boand hi Regent breaker yes Regent Brooks no because of the contract the motion passes thank you congratulations President [Applau
se] ataria thank you chair um first of all I'd like to to thank the board uh for the support you've shown me means a lot for our faculty uh I have a tremendous uh leadership team around me and so I have to thank them for way am I mean they make me look good every day also um the hardart work of our Dr faculty and staff I think without them Dr wouldn't I wouldn't be able to I don't write proposals for them they write proposals my job is to just facilitate and be the leader that I am so um I think
that it means a lot for drri um and your support and our team and they I think my I I tell them my evaluation is your evaluation so you're being evaluated here and so I think I'm just proud of the team that I have and um thank you for um all your support I look forward to next four years thank you we're very proud of you and your team as [Applause] well CH can I make a quick comment to uh region arisara region arasar I was a faculty member before I became president and I have a clause in my con
tract if I'm fired without cause I'm going back to being a faculty as well so thank you thank you okay we'll move on to item number 27 procedures and guidelines manual revision duel I'm sorry we're not going to do um item number 27 um we will move on to item number 28 I'm sorry in the interest of time we will move that one uh item number 28 procedures and guidelines manual revision fy2 tuition and fees UNLV William S Boyd School of Law president Whitfield thank you chair Vice chair Regents for t
he record Keith Whitfield president of UNLV due to the cost of living adjustments approved at last quarter At Last At the last quarterly meeting the UNLV William S Boyd School of Law is requesting approval to amend the procedures and guidelines manual to increase the registration and tuition by an additional 5% for fiscal year 2025 the law school is also experiencing extremely extreme budgetary circumstances due to the cost of living adjustments and this proposed increase will not only alleviate
the circumstances but will provide additional funding for student scholarships this request is the same increase as was already approved for UNLV including the graduate college and the student government representatives from the void School of Law have reviewed as you heard earlier and agreed with the proposed registration and tuition increase for fiscal year 2025 with this in mind I offer this for your consideration and ask that Dean uh Leah Chan grinvald come forward just in case there's any
questions thank you are there any questions from Regents Regent McMichael motion to approve second okay so I have a motion from Regent McMichael and a second from Regent tanian any discussion or comments Regent Brown thank you I will keep this short um Regent Brown for the record I just want to say the fact that you had a handful of your college students coming in today to testify on on this the importance of this speaks volumes to the type of programming that you guys created so I will be suppo
rting this thank you thank you any other comments okay so we have a motion from Regent McMichael and a second from Regent arcanian all those in favor please say I I oppos motion carries thank you item number 29 procedures and guidelines manual revision fy2 tuition and fees UNLV School of Dental Medicine president Whitfield thank you chair Vice chair and Regents um for the record Keith Whitfield president of UNLV similar to the budgetary restraints of the law school the UNLV School of Dental Medi
cine is requesting approval to increase the registration and tuition by 5% for fiscal year 2025 to reflect Rising costs initi operational funds were diverted to fund the salaries but this required the school to enact austerity measures to sustain fiscal Health with the upcoming 11% cost of living adjustment and major equipment maintenance contracts costs also increasing diverting operational funds will no longer be feasible because of this I'm requesting approval to amend the procedures and guid
elines manual to increase the registration and tuition by 5% Student Government representatives from the dental school have reviewed this proposal increase and have approved and agree with its necessity with this in mind I offer uh this for your consideration thank you and excuse me and uh Dean James ma is uh here to answer any questions you might have thank you president Whitfield questions or comments from Regents Regent McMichael motion to approve thank you I have a motion on the floor second
second from Regent Goodman any other discussion yes Regent Cruz Crawford Regent Cruz Crawford for the record do we have any students that could weigh in since we didn't have any I don't know if we had any in the audience do we have any dental school students here oh this one sorry I missed it um okay Regent Goodman reminded me that we had Student Government Weighing on this item okay um we you're saying someone from student government is going to weigh in on this I okay okay okay it looks like
we don't have a okay uh president Thomas hi Nicole Thomas uh UNLV gpsa so we do represent our Dental medical and um law student professional students as well um I haven't heard any opposition to this fee um not to say that there's you know groundbreaking support or anything like that um but a lot of our Dental students do take out loans and things like that so I know they face um and struggle with increased cost of living um but I like I said I haven't gotten anything in terms of students you kn
ow protesting or being upset or anything like that and we usually have a pretty good pulse on what's going on um I wish I had more information for you than that but that's we do have have a dental representative and they haven't contacted me about it thank you for that information all right then with that I will call for the vote all those in favor please say I I opposed I motion carries thank you thank you item number 30 procedures and guidelines manual revision 2025 to 2027 tuition and fees UN
LV William S Boyd School of Law president Whitfield thank you chair and vice chair and Regents uh for the record Keith Whitfield president of UNLV as requested by the handbook presented here for information is the proposed 2526 and 2627 bium tuition and fees for the UNLV William S Boyd school of law this proposal reflects an increase in tuition fees of approximately 5.2% in fiscal year 2026 and an additional 5.2 in fiscal year 2027 while this increased tuition wh while this increased tuition The
Proposal will also provide additional funding for student scholarships Student Success and program activities such as experiential skill building the student government representatives from the law school have reviewed and agree with the proposed increases and with all of this in mind I respectfully offer it for your discussion thank you discussion from regions Regent Del Carlo thank you chair carvalo I just draw everyone's attention to uh slide number seven and I mean we should be very proud o
f what is charged there cuz I mean it's it's really um it's it's low in comparison to the other schools I mean and I it's a fine school I was really happy to attend their I think it was the 25th or the 20th 25th wasn't it uh anniversary dinner in December after the last board meeting and and um you you look at our state government and there's so many people in our assembly in our Senate and in our constitutional officers that have come through the Boyd School of Law I mean it's it's a fine schoo
l and has a great reputation and I appreciate every year when you send out you're I think you're always number like really low number or high number but it's a good low number but it's a good number for um I think it's the uh writing writing could you just brag just a little bit on that because I I'm I'm happy for that thank you Leah Chan greenal uh for the record yes we are um have been in the for the last 10 years in the top three and so this year we were top two in legal writing we were numbe
r nine uh top nine for dispute resolution and our part-time JD program which I am really just so proud of because that is giving an opportunity to those who wouldn't otherwise be able to take off work and go to school full-time our part-time program was ranked number eight in the country and so you know for a little school that could that was just you know uh established 25 years ago which you know in the grand scheme of academic life you know UNR right 100 plus years we we I am really proud and
I think we all have so much to be proud of Boyd School of Law so thank you for that Regent thank you I'm very proud of the school too thank you so I will entertain a motion motion to approve oh this is I'm sorry this is information only okay that was easy okay thank you for that um item number 31 procedures and guidelines manual revision to the 202527 tuition and fees UNLV School of Dental Medicine Keith yeah president Keith Whitfield and this is for information only as well thank you chair and
vice chair and Regents um as I told you you're not going to get rid of me I guess um so this one is now for the School of Dental Medicine as per the board of regions handbook here for information is the proposed 2526 and 2627 by ANM tuition and fees for the UNLV dental school the dental school's previous agenda item presented some of the financial strains that the school has faced and these effects are reflected in The banian Proposal this proposal reflects an increase in tuition in fees of app
roximately 5% % in 2025 if the proposed fy2 increase is approved and 5% in 2026 including the summer term tuition and fees I respectfully offer this for your consideration thank you president Whitfield I see Dean ma coming up in case there are any other questions or comments yes Regent tell Carlo thank you uh chair Carval I just will make the same comment with slide number four in the briefing paper how um the average tuition is 72433 you're at 68,9 120 the lowest is 67996 and the highest 145 59
8 so again I think this Las Vegas Community is very blessed to have this dental school and um I I is there ever going to be any plans to expand it or is that even on the horizon in the next s five years or something yes James ma interim Dean UNLV dental medicine for the record yes we do have uh plans in fact we have great news yesterday we have our approval from the accrediting body for dental anesthesiology program so while we understand there's need for general dentist in Nevada we are terribl
y short of other Dental Specialists that take care of very specific populations the next one we're looking at is oral surgery and expertise in geriatric dental care so we are expanding but in Specialties uh in instead of the general dentist thank you and keep it up keep up good work proud of your school thank you thank you I would Echo that as well any other questions or comments thank you so much uh item number 32 procedures and guidelines manual revision 202527 tuition and fees UNLV Kirk Coran
School of Medicine president Whitfield thank you chair and vice chair and Regents um for the record Keith Whitfield president of UNLV as per the handbook presented here for information is the proposed 2526 and 2627 bym tuition and fees for the UNLV Kirk Coran school of medicine this proposal reflects a 3% tuition and fees increase each Academic Year for the next banum which is unchanged from the previous bium and is lower than the rate of inflation this increase will still place the school of m
edicine as a highly affordable option for medical school in the western region uh and particularly the western region Coalition of higher education or Wishy uh Student Government Representatives have reviewed this proposal the proposed tuition and registration fee changes and agree and approve with its necessity I present this for your discussion thank you president Whitfield discussion from regions yes Regent T Carlo I'm sorry but I just have to say again it's a wonderful value that we have and
um on the chart it's slide number eight it's the second lowest tuition of all the schools you've given so um it it's that's an access one which is our first U strategic goal so thank you thank you region for the record Mark Khan um our average uh student debt places Us in the the lowest 20th percentile and I know you're about to hear from my colleague but both of us feel very strongly that we need to make our medical schools as affordable as possible thanks thank you Dean con anything more from
region seeing none I will move on to item number 33 procedures and guidelines manual revision 202527 tuition and fees University of Nevada Reno school of medicine and I see our Dean there and I'll just hand it over to you thank you well uh thank you very much Madam chair Paul halman Dean at UNR Med uh similar to uh the request from uh UNLV we are proposing a 3% uh increase we followed all procedures we included a number of students from the classes of 27 and 28 who would be most affected by thi
s tuition increase uh and we uh received approval for the 3% I'll highlight what Dr KH said at UNR Med if you look at public witchy medical schools of you our Med Now ranks 15th out of 18th for tuition and if you include uh fees we rank 16th out of 18 so it is a great value we obviously want to keep our tuition and fees as low as possible uh we are very concerned about student debt even by being in the lowest tsil um and that's where scholarship money and other avenues to help our students come
into play thank you Dean halman any questions or comments from Regents Regent Del Carlo I say the same thing that I said for UNLV so thank you very much and uh I will just say publicly again I'm so pleased you both of you Deans are working so well together it just bod so well for our state and I can't wait to see down the road what you guys come up with and to advance thank you thank you I would Echo that as well um I would also say that um it's it's almost unique in a small state like ours that
we have two medical schools and everywhere I can I I I brag about both of you and I'm I'm just proud that that we have both of these medical schools here uh thank you so much for all of the work that you do and providing the next generation of healthcare workers in the state all right with that we will move on to committee report reports um I would like to take them all in one motion except for BFF which is um I'll I'll take that separately only because um Vice chair DS has uh disclosures that
he'd like to make so um item 34 35 36 and 37 we can take those together unless um any Regents would like to um take any of those out Regent Cruz Crawford sorry I have something in my mouth um I believe I had a disclosure for the what committee was it academic research student affairs is that where the UNR Cooperative Extension was yeah so if we could do that one as separate as well okay so then we will take 34 35 and 36 all together in one motion then and pull out the other two I move to approve
thank you oh I have a motion from Regent Goodman and a second from Regent boand yes ma'am all those in favor please say I I oppos I motion carries thank you okay item number 37 academic research and student affairs committee uh Regent Cruz Crawford I do not have the disclosure statement does someone have it for me okay Madam chair I believe that it was the audit compliance and Title 9 committee where Regent uh Cruz Crawford disclosed it was uh item number four audit well we've already approved
well then I'll just that after the Regent Cruz Crawford for the record pursuant to NRS chapter 281a I hereby disclose that my school um does receive UNR Cooperative Extension nutrition lessons because the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person I would be um I would not be right materially affected by my situation and I did vote on this matter thank you madam chair I apologize can I just add one more thing um just for the benefit of the record that disclosure was also included in the com
mittee report that was distributed to the board thank you for that clarification Mr Wixom did you want to add just one thing thank you Michael wixon for the record given the fact that Regent Cruz Crawford made the disclosure and in fact went ahead and voted in accordance with her disclosure and made the disclosure again we don't need to reopen the item it's it's fine as it is okay great thank you I appreciate that I just wanted to make sure that was clear for the record in case there was a qu qu
estion in the future okay thank you um then we will now approve the um academic research and student affairs committee um uh committee report then move to approve thank you I have a motion from RE um I'm sorry Vice chair DS is there a second second from Regent El Carlo all those in favor please say I those opposed motion carries I will move to item number 38 business finance and Facilities committee and I'll go to Vice chair DS okay just the guidance from uh Council Wixom uh am I going for both
agenda items eight and nine because nine okay so for agenda item eight pursuant to NRS chapter 281 I hereby disclose that I am the parent of a future student in the UNR College of Agriculture I said it wrong before and president uh he's gone now it's agriculture biotech and natural resources um the proceeds for this is regarding the sale a property the proceeds from the sale the property are intended to be used for scholarships for students in the cabiner um because the independence of Judgment
of a reasonable person would be materially affected by my situation I will abstain from voting on this one and uh for the agenda number nine this is regarding the uh WC property uh lease pursu to NRS chapter 281a I hereby disclose that I am an employee of wnc because the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person would not be materially affected by my situation I will vote on that but I guess I don't vote on the whole thing because it's all inclusive for purposes of the record you would vot
e on I I would pull the one item where you did not where where you did not vote where you recused and did not vote we need to vote on that item or you need to vote on that item as a board and then the balance you can vote am I making sense so yes so we should have the so when you vote as a body we need to make sure that Regent d does not vote on the item that he's recused himself on so you should pull that sub item out vote on it separately and then you can vote on the balance because you've alr
eady made that disclosure I apologize for the complication and it's not because I'm an employee it's because I'm a parent the whole process is not intuitive so I apologize but anyway thank you so I will entertain a motion to approve the committee report for business finance and Facilities with with the proper disclosure that was made right motion to [Music] approve yes Madam chair with the exception of um bff8 with the exception of bff8 so you can entertain a motion for approval of the BFF commi
ttee agenda with the exception of item 8 and then we'll have a separate vote on item eight Regent vent Downs will not vote okay thank you um so that is a is that a motion to accept the report without item eight Regent McMichael yes thank you and is there a second second second from Regent El Carlo all those in favor please say I I I I oppose I motion carries okay so now we will go to item number eight of the BFF committee report uh and so I will ask for a motion um to approve that item I make a
motion to approve item number eight of that business finance committee second thank you so I have a motion from Regent Breer and a second from Regent McMichael all those in favor please say I I oppos abstain abstain motion carries thank you all right now we can move on to item 39 new business um before I get to that I just do want to say in in new business today we covered five items there were five items on the new business item log that were on this agenda um so I just wanted to make that poin
t um and also I wanted to say that uh in recognition of the building that we're in the Atomic Testing Museum um I I'd like to say that uh I'm going to neutralize ize that nuclear option that was expressed earlier and say that it is my intention that uh that there will be discussion at the June meeting on Mission differentiation and with that um I do have one other item that I'd like to say before I open it up to new new business for Regions um as a reminder for all regions when requesting items
for new business please note that under the Nevada open meeting law NRS section 241.55 without the required public notice therefore when proposing an item of new business you must limit yourself to identifying the matter or item without any discussion exchange of facts or rationale for the proposed item any Region's failure to follow this directive may result in that Regent being charged with a violation of the Nevada open meeting law so with that I will open it up to new business Regent Brooks
thank you chair I've got two quick items um an agenda item under new business for policy revisions regarding board evaluations and surveys particularly when it comes to the alignment of board goals and objectives um and the second one is part uh an agenda item regarding presidential contracts that um uh make it make it clear um that a dual reporting system exists in which the president reports to both the board and the chancellor or interim Chancellor and that the president May and I'll just lea
ve it at that so that that that'd be uh an agenda item thank you thank you new business from uh Regent Goodman thank you very much chair I would like to put on our next agenda for uh this board to receive a presentation and take a position on question one I think we can thank you Regent Del Carlo thank you um and thank you for not having me do the nuclear option I appreciate being heard that we're going to have that mission differentiation and service area on the June agenda we've needed that fo
r a long time but my new business item is we as a board a long time ago got rid of the athletic committee and so that report that we had today usually used to come I think in December when we changed it to the March meeting but I don't feel like we had a really proper discussion on the finances of the athletic departments at UNLV UNR and CSN and I asked that it come back within two meetings to get um more information and I would also request that the three institutions and also um TMCC the four
schools get together and I want the same format for all four of them so we know what we're looking at um one has a lot more detail than the other one but it should all be the same the easier you guys make it for us as regions because I I sat down and we had over almost 2,000 pages of material today to prepare for this meeting it was 1,900 and some some of it are slides yeah but there's a lot of reading there so help us too we'll be better regions if you help us thank you thank you any other new
business yes Vice chair DS thank you chair carvalo I would like to see I think it's already going to be on the uh the next agenda after speaking with u m Vice Chancellor Archer and um associate Vice Chancellor assistant Vice Chancellor Davis but I think I just would like to see coming to the June agenda the um the boot camp possibility for schools to use if they CH choose to implement that thank you thank you Regent McMichael uh yes for new business I would like to see if there's any way that we
can introduce a screening for dislexia when students uh first register for college courses I think we might be having a a large problem and we're just not noticing it thank you thank you um before I move to public comment I think it's important to um say thank you where thanks is due um so first I'd like to say thank you to president acharia and Dr for hosting [Applause] us this includes Iris Stewart Britt Chapman Tracy Bower Paul pate Sanchez Ryan mcgonagal Charles Greenstein Steve S Jerry Der
by and Grant bowler and also with our audio visual which they they were really put to the test today I think Rick Romero claudo osinaga Ben Labrador and Tim Anderson and from SCS Brian anzelone James anded freed I'm sorry Bentley Holmes go Paul Gilbert DEA Ed boo gar Cassel and Tim shup and for catering we had some wonderful food and I really appreciate the work that that Carrie did to to find them uh Lori Magna and her team with irresistible events um we we couldn't go uh without having upd her
e thank you so much for what you do for us and what you have done for us thank you and last but certainly not least the uh board team of Angela winter Juliana and especially Carrie I really appreciate the you had my back to this these few days thank you so much and with that I will move to public comment for those who would like to call in and offer public comment please dial 6 69444 9171 and enter meeting ID 928 4944 569 and passcode 555555 I'll ask for public comment from the meeting sites fir
st is there any public comment in GBC no comment no public comment from Alco thank you there is no public comment in the Reno office um is there public comment here in Las Vegas uh Dr Bill Robinson chair of the UN faculty Senate you know I'm just I'm not going anywhere so you're going to have to listen to me for a long time uh number one periodic review we we talked to the chancellor about that we absolutely want it done and revised before the next president has to put up with that process it's
got to be fixed I agree with you 1,000% um two NS when NSC was founded it was n it was always intended to be a multicampus system that spanned the whole state two years in they took the H off because there wasn't going to be anything else for a while but it's always been intended to be a multicampus system that spanned the state always and you can go back and look at the founding documents and you can see that in them they're supposed to be six or seven of them um that I've said this before I'll
say it again and I've talked to Regent carvalo about this before she was chair carvalo the exit of that thing of at Nevada state there's got to be coordination with the city council and the board has to get with the city council to make that happen there the I've worked with NC and I've worked with City staff to try to make that happen and it's a city council that doesn't want it to happen and we have to you guys have to work with them Athletics absolutely um I'm Sports Economist I'm more than
happy to help deal with um how to make those athletic reports better and then lastly every time you see anyone in my senior Administration ask them when the new door locks are going in ask them when the lighting new lighting is going in ask them when the new blue poles are going in ask them when we're going to upgrade the mental health infrastructure for the students ask them when we cannot wait the presid one of the president kept saying it's a year and a half till the legislature meets it's on
ly nine months but it's a year and a half before we'd get any money out of it all that stuff has to get done now and I don't care where they get the money from if they have to clean out their Foundation accounts it's got to get done and I'm counting on all of you to make sure that it gets done and it gets done before school starts in the fall thank you thank you my name is pias p i o r e j s and pardon me I know most of you and probably as wants to go uh I'll continue um I'm the student body pre
sident at CSN and this is my last border of regions meeting as this is my last term as president and student of CSN uh unfortunately or fortunately I'm transferring to another institution anyways uh I want to to speak on record and if if we are able or if we can recognize my president Dr federo Saragosa or Dr C I can't really speak uh for the board uh but I'm pretty sure many of you were there when Dr C or Dr Saragosa received many and different Awards and um nomination for his incredible work a
nd job and and I would truly appreciate truly appreciate a round of applause for Dr C please um he truly embodies what serving student is and and he is my president and and he will always be my president thank you thank you [Applause] po hello everyone uh Matthew Han for the record Han ha WN um I've served as the GSA president for the last three years and I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you all the regions today well I've had the incredible opportunity to really work with a l
ot of you um you've come to a lot of our events at the University and you've really helped us feel that we're involved and listened to so I want to say thank you to all of the regions and I also want to say thank you to president sandal and the rest of the board staff um Terina Certo who has helped out significantly with the Nevada student Alliance has been an incredible member to work with and I will miss being the GSA president and I will miss being involved with the Nevada system of higher ed
ucation and I this will be a chapter in my life that I will truly remember so thank you for all that you've done and I wish you the best of luck in the future and we'll always be watching in some way or another so thank you thank you [Applause] Matthew Patrick Villa V CSN faculty Cate chair um in my long rant earlier the one thing I forgot to say was I am happy that everyone's open moving forward it seems that Vice Chancellor Archer he went over there he he's not we're doing this and that's it i
t it is a much more collaborative thing so I'm happy to see that part most of what I was saying was for the past um that's all and I and I want to say also not my last meeting sorry but I uh do appreciate I have an appreciation for the work you all do this is a difficult job I see that you guys get frustrated you got people like me yelling you got people arguing got people telling you what you can and can't say and do I get your frustration and I feel it's sometimes too so I know you get paid a
lot for doing what you do but um I I just I have an appreciation for what you do so thank you all very much thank you hello everybody Regent Cruz Crawford for the record I would just like to make public comment as the chair of the idea committee earlier today um someone mentioned a man man masquerading as a woman and I just want to stand firmly and let you know um that there has um there was a 20 um 20 Supreme Court ruling that clearly underlines federal law that protects our lgbtq AI plus stude
nts and that um we'll continue to work to have conversations because I know that individual statements do not Define a whole person and I look forward to working with this institution to create a safe space for everybody um to thrive thank you thank you good afternoon Jim new neew president of the Nevada faculty Alliance and I realize I'm standing between you and dinner so I'll be brief I'd like to thank faculty Senate chair Peter Reid for his comments earlier this morning about the differences
between the faculty Senate and the NFA I really appreciate that we're having this conversation and I'm grateful for this opportunity to share our perspective the first NFA chapters were established over 40 years ago they were Affiliates of the American Association of un University professors as we are today by defining such Bedrock principles as academic freedom and shared governance and the role of the faculty Senate the aaup became the definitive Authority on Modern higher education governance
the principles they established decades ago played a considerable role in elevating American higher education to the global gold standard the aaup established the independence of the faculty Senate as a deliberative and legislative body and under these same guidelines the NFA chapter is the advocate which can serve to fortify the Senate and address faculty professional con concerns beyond the Senate's jurisdiction including areas such as political action as chair Reed pointed out we are passion
ate and we take Our obligation to work on behalf of all faculty very seriously the NFA is enjoying unprecedented growth the most robust in over a decade and we will continue to prioritize communication collaboration and cooperation with our Senate colleagues chairman Reed didn't identify the Regent who asked him to make his comments but if that Regent or any of you uh other regions ever want to chat about nfa's role I'm available please let me know you want to talk and for those of you who are t
raveling safe Journeys home and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend thank you for your work on behalf of Nevada thank you uh for the record Kevin o hernandz proud president of Nevada State student Alliance and uh Vice chair of the Nevada student Alliance um I would like to really talk about some um language that has been used within the region meeting today and my Regent is um very honored to be represented by Patrick boand um but as my Regent I find it disheartening to hear a regent Express
abhorent views towards our diverse set of students including our transgender students in sports it's essential for educational leaders to Foster inclusivity and support all students creating an environment where everyone feels respected and valued Regent boand as my Regent I hope you expand and change your Paradigm thank you [Applause] Mr Martinez Jimmy Martinez for the record no there can be no no comment or back and forth in public comment that's acceptable go there I'll sit sure and do it ta
lking about respect and having all students involved it doesn't matter what race sex anything you are there's something known as the first amendment and it's the freedom of speech I see it as a man masquerading as a woman if he has not had his you know what cut off or anything he's still a man so I will say a man masquerading as a woman no matter what anybody says that to me or not it's got nothing to be uh racist or anything against anybody that's the way I see it that's the way I'll say it so
if any of you think like the Regent and the student that that'll shut me up or keep me from saying things again no it won't I'll speak the truth as I see the truth and that's my public comment thank you thank you is there any okay Regent Brown thank you uh Regent Brown for the record I would also like to enter into the public comment just a matter of fact freedom of speech means that the government cannot regulate your speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want and I'm sorry but as an ele
cted official I feel like we should hold ourselves above what is legally allowed and and have some decency so I I want to apologize on behalf of those comments earlier these comments that were just right now and I want every student in this system to know that there are people who genuinely care about you who want to do things for this system that will move us forward as state and excuse me for being upset but I am tired of people treating people poorly because they feel like they can't it's not
okay and as regions we have to hold ourselves more accountable and I will do that for this board even if I stand alone I know I don't but I will thank [Applause] you thank you SCS is are is there any public comment on the phone yes Madam chair we do have one caller caller with the number ending in 8853 please press star six to unmute State and spell your name for the record and you have 2 minutes to address the board Douger do G Nevada faculty Alliance but I'm calling on behalf of the Nevada pr
ison education project hoping to close the meeting on a happier note and to uh augment uh president dp's impassioned uh uh review of the prison education program at Western Nevada college uh I've served on the Nevada prison education project for more than two years uh we presented to the interim standing committee on the Judiciary last Friday we're an independent advocacy organization that includes faculty and administrators from colleges and universities in eni uh representatives from nonprofit
s Community organizations and the Nevada Department of Corrections and Justice impacted students so far npb has provided more than $880,000 in donor funded tuition scholarships and instructor support for incarcerated students and books and resources from National organizations such as Penn we are coordinating with the established n programs and the Nevada Department of Corrections to help with improving access and outcomes and to support adding more college degree and Workforce pathway choices f
or the incarcerated we aspire to helping expand prison education in our state through established n sheet degree and certificate programs we would very much like to offer a presentation to the Board of Regents which would provide an overview of prison education in our state and response to Regent Cruz Crawford and I know Regent perkins's interest and to really go over numbers and aspirations and what we will be asking the legislature for in the 83rd session so please do uh ask us to present sinc
e we're the bridge organization that includes some of the most devoted teachers I've ever seen in the N system who are going into our prisons uh um on a daily basis and working with our programs this is one of the most worthy programs I think Anie can expand and work on and we'd very much like the opportunity to present more about it to you in the future um thanks to president doy and to everyone who working for prison education in our state thank you is there there's no other callers at this ti
me thank you thank you so much um I'm going to open up public comment here in Las Vegas again my name is pus p i o r e j a s um I I feel really to talk about today for some reason I'm I'm really a quiet guy to be honest um anyways um I just want to acknowledge uh the the leadership in NSA I just wanted to say real quick um acknowledge uh NSA Church suan estan that unfortunately is not here with us but she's absolutely remarkable and our vice chair uh president Kevin oor hernandz right there who
draft the resolution uh that we passed yesterday and our um secretary Borio Gua which is not present in the room um it's just quite tough to hear from a student some language from regions uh a region that after all represent as as as a students that that's it thank you thank you Regent Del Carlo thank you chair carvalo just uh my public comment I wanted to thank the students also for the leadership of the students and especially to you Matt Han not I've never seen anybody serve three years conse
cutively that's a heavy lift when you're working on uh another master's degree I believe you'll be graduating the spring but I have to say you're you exemplified what it takes to be a student leader and the advocacy you did on behalf of your constituents I know you didn't get the uh they they you didn't want us to raise the $50 for the student married housing at UNR but we did anyway but you really did the big lift on the um graduate student stips and you got it everybody respected you for doing
that and it's part of our budget requests too so I mean that's a beautiful example and to all the stud students uh govern leaders especially Susanna she's not here at 17 she's an remarkable person I really think she's going to be as I said yesterday she's not going to just be here she's gonna be on Mountain Street or at the White House someday she's it's remarkable but I I just think it's important to end this meeting on a positive note I have said this before publicly my eyes have been open si
nce I became a regent and I didn't just do that because I opened them wider I I opened up my heart and I went to lots of uh seminars I don't think I have missed a diversity Summit North or South since I've been on the board I I get so much wonderful information and I just I look at things in a different lens so it's really helped me as a person and um I think those of you sometimes people that need it most don't go and I would just encourage all my colleagues to take the time to go to these thin
gs that are offered to us the the session on Mental Health at UNLV was worth my coming down a day early it's a huge problem in our country and with that I hope everybody has a safe time with going home our group that left a little earlier made it safely although it was very windy they said on the plane and I may not get home till Monday with the snow I'm getting thank you everyone have a good one thank you at this time I'll close public comment I just want to add my voice to the conversation her
e and say that I hope that we all leave this room with showing kindness and and heart to other people you don't always know what somebody else is going through and it's very important to show kindness and and love to everybody around you so um with that I I will close the meeting we'll adj J at 524 thank you
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