Keith E. Whitfield In The News

Las Vegas Sun
Nevada education leaders are reviewing demands of a recent U.S. Department of Education memo for American schools ordering institutions to eradicate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding.
Las Vegas Sun
Six preschoolers on Monday morning donned tiny yellow hard hats and picked up miniature plastic shovels while digging into a small pile of dirt outside the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center at 51ԹϺ.
Yahoo!
51ԹϺ’s College of Education held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for a new project to expand its on-campus preschool. The project is a part of the university’s commitment to meet the childcare and educational needs of families throughout Southern Nevada.
K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now
51ԹϺ’s College of Education held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for a new project to expand its on-campus preschool. The project is a part of the university’s commitment to meet the childcare and educational needs of families throughout Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas Sun
51ԹϺ retained its Research 1 Carnegie designation as one of the nation’s highest-performing research universities.
Yahoo!
In the wake of President Trump’s executive order outlawing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives for any U.S. business or academic institution that receives federal funding, 51ԹϺ’s president defended his university’s hiring practices. “We’re still people. We’re all going to have our diversity pieces to our background and some of that comes out.”
K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now
In the wake of President Trump’s executive order outlawing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives for any U.S. business or academic institution that receives federal funding, 51ԹϺ’s president defended his university’s hiring practices. “We’re still people. We’re all going to have our diversity pieces to our background and some of that comes out.”
K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13
The future is bright for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to President Keith Whitfield. During his State of the University address on Thursday, he laid out several proposed plans, which includes campus expansion.