A panel of students, faculty and administrators from across the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) met Wednesday with a single goal: Come up with ways to cover a $63 million hole in the state’s public college and university budgets. That advisory committee’s final recommendation will remain secret for several more weeks until the publishing of a formal Board of Regents meeting agenda later this month. As a committee with one elected regent as a member, it is not bound by the state’s open meeting law. But multiple interviews with administrators and faculty involved with discussions suggest regents will be presented with a raft of options to help stem the budget bleeding — including a potential increase in student fees coupled with yet more institutional cuts.
