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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.
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.
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.”
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.
Monday is the first day of class for students at 51ԹϺ. The university welcoming its largest enrollment of more than 32,000 students.
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.
With Election Day approaching, candidates are courting voters with everything they’ve got: targeted ads, texts, taunts, and stump speeches. As a fashion historian, I think an overlooked aspect of electioneering is clothing, which is a silent, powerful way for candidates to tell the American public who they are. It’s an act as old as power itself.
Kendra Still’s career as a Nevada state trooper unexpectedly ended after 14 years when she was injured in a crash with a wrong-way driver on the 215 Beltway. Still, now the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s wellness program manager, is helping institute a new resiliency training program designed for the highway patrol. The first session of the program, developed by 51ԹϺ’s Tourist Safety Institute and the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, was hosted Wednesday by 51ԹϺ professors Steven Pace and Nicholas Barr.
