Keith E. Whitfield In The News

Yahoo!
Of the over 30,000 students that flocked to the first day of 51ԹϺ classes on Monday, some returned to the building where three professors lost their lives last year for the first time since. Frank and Estella Beam Hall holds the Lee Business School, where classes have not been held since December 6, 2023. The deadly shooting provoked $5.1 million in security upgrades, including $2.6 million to hire private security officers for the fall semester.
K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3
51ԹϺ is hoping to sell Sam Boyd Stadium, even though the property was given to the university at no cost. The university invested millions of dollars to upgrade the stadium throughout the years. Now it's hoping to get some of that investment back.
K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now
Of the over 30,000 students that flocked to the first day of 51ԹϺ classes on Monday, some returned to the building where three professors lost their lives last year for the first time since. Frank and Estella Beam Hall holds the Lee Business School, where classes have not been held since December 6, 2023. The deadly shooting provoked $5.1 million in security upgrades, including $2.6 million to hire private security officers for the fall semester.
K.V.V.U. T.V. Fox 5
Students and staff were all back on campus at 51ԹϺ as the fall semester began Monday. “This is what a university is about,” 51ԹϺ President Keith Whitfield told FOX5 as he manned a free lemonade stand inside a packed Beam Hall. “That vibrance. People are here, people are going to classes for the first time.”
K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13
Thousands of students are back on 51ԹϺ campus for the fall semester. The university tells us this is the largest fall enrollment ever. I spoke to the university's president about what this means for the future of 51ԹϺ and took a look back at where it all started.
Yahoo!
The start of the fall semester at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, or 51ԹϺ, is here, and in addition to tons of new students and enhanced security and safety measures, Frank and Estella Beam Hall has reopened for classes.
K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13
The fall semester for 51ԹϺ kicks off Monday morning. Not only will students and staff be back on campus, but 51ԹϺ will be rolling out all of their new security improvements.
The Nevada Globe
Warner Bros. Discovery has unveiled its ambitious plan to establish an $8.5 billion film studio in Nevada, pending the approval of a film studio tax credit. The proposed studio, an extension of their collaboration with 51ԹϺ and Birtcher Development, would occupy the 34-acre Nevada Studios campus, to be renamed “Warner Bros. Studios Nevada”.