UNLV Considers Dropping Landscape Architecture Dept.

On March 29 landscape architecture students protested on the UNLV campus against possible closure of their program to meet the legislature?EUR??,,????'?????<

 

When we write news involving a university, it tends to be reporting on some research, a scholarship program or that the school is now offering a degree program in landscape architecture.

Las Vegas is reeling from an upside-down real estate market and a 13.9 percent unemployment rate, among the highest in the nation. A recent survey (Las Vegas Metropolitan Areas Social Survey) found 40 percent of the respondents indicating they wanted to leave Vegas.

Now, the University of Las Vegas Nevada (UNLV) seeks to eliminate eight full departments recommended for elimination by Provost Michael Bowers to meet the 6.9 percent cut in state support approved by the legislature.

Programs proposed for elimination include gerontology (only Alaska and Arizona project bigger jumps in the senior population than Nevada), clinical laboratory sciences and landscape architecture.

A committee appointed by the faculty senate is reviewing the provost?EUR??,,????'?????<