As UNLV copes with current budget cuts and the possibility of new cuts when the state Legislature meets again next year, the administration and the faculty worry: How can they keep women and minorities from being poached by other institutions?
It won’t be easy.
Across the country, a similar question troubles universities, public and private. But to UNLV, hit with some of the harshest cuts in higher education, the question is especially urgent.
Students in Nevada’s public schools — the pipeline for much of UNLV’s 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students — are more diverse every year, coming from dozens of ethnic groups and speaking scores of languages.