Budget crisis threatens rural community colleges in Nevada - Harry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal

"We're doing what we're supposed to do," says Bret Murphy, dean of technical trade programs and other so-called applied sciences. "We're a community college. We're serving the community and its industries." Now school officials insist that mission is jeopardized by mounting state budget cuts and, worse, talk of consolidating Nevada's community colleges. Diekhans calls it the worst crisis he has seen at Great Basin since he was hired as a math and computing instructor in 1980.