With his tenure as president of UNLV approaching its first anniversary, Neal Smatresk says he’s looking back at “the best of years and the worst of years.”
Nevada’s higher education system has endured unprecedented cuts in state funding. UNLV is cutting academic affairs spending by $4 million and trimming another $5.7 million from support areas to meet the Legislature’s demand for a 6.9 percent reduction. That’s on top of $44 million already sliced from the university’s budget since 2007.
