Thanks to the tireless work of Drs. Hyla Winters, Patti Castro, Darren Divine, and the faculty in the Ralph & Betty Engelstad School of Health Sciences, CSN received approval from the Board of Regents for two new Bachelor of Applied Science degrees, one in Clinical Laboratory Sciences and the other in Cardio-respiratory Sciences This is great news for our community, which lost the CLS program at UNLV due to funding reductions and the state, which has no other accredited four-year program in cardio-respiratory.

November 08, 2010 Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards Vartouhi Asherian, Chair, Administrative Faculty Assembly John Bearce, Director of Institutional Research […]

Last month’s Chronicle described the goals of Complete College America and the Obama Administration’s efforts to fund more certificate and degree completions. Paralleling these initiatives are renewed accountability and public communication activities at the national level. The American Association of Community Colleges is launching a Voluntary Framework of Accountability that will be piloted by three dozen colleges this year. And there are new proposals for better measuring student success in community colleges.

“Worthwhile public projects often generate negative taxpayer perspective returns, because the role of government is to provide services that the public wants but that the business sector may find unprofitable … But unlike most government endeavors funding for CSN generates strong results from both the social and taxpayer perspectives. Economists generally assume a 3% discount rate in analyzing government investments, assuming that governments can obtain unsecured loans at a rate of 3% or receive a 3% return on any excess funds, if they were invested. Since CSN’s taxpayer rate of return of 9.2% is greater than 3%, state and local governments actually make money on the investment. By funding the college, therefore, other recipients of state and local funding are actually subsidized through the revenues generated by the college.”

October 11, 2010 Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards Vartouhi Asherian, Chair, Administrative Faculty Assembly John Bearce, Director of Institutional Research […]

Greetings to all!  There is much activity on many fronts that I’d like you to know about. White House Summit […]

September 13, 2010 Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards Vartouhi Asherian, Chair, Administrative Faculty Assembly John Bearce, Director of Institutional Research […]

Last week, under the leadership of President Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, a historic White House Summit on Community Colleges […]

For those who were unable to watch the White House Summit on Community Colleges live on the web on Tuesday, Oct. 5. We have posted the opening and closing sessions here.

Greetings to all!  I hope your semester is going well.  There is much activity on many fronts that I’d like […]

August 09, 2010  Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards – absent Vartouhi Asherian, Chair, Administrative Faculty Assembly John Bearce, Interim Director […]

I believe creating an ombudsman role to facilitate this communication and ensuring CSN has its own watch dog to make certain policies and procedures are followed will go a long way to strengthen faculty governance at CSN.

Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards John Bearce, Interim Director of Institutional Research K.C. Brekken, Communications Manager – absent Thomas Brown, […]

This really is a wonderful achievement for both the city and CSN. I hope you will all take a moment this coming semester to admire our newest facility and to welcome Fire Station 6 to CSN.

Starting this fall, the college will offer a business course at the institute with the hope that some of the students will come to CSN to complete a Certificate in Business Management.

This will help those students who intend to work for major salons or have their own operation create a business plan, design a budget and develop other major skills that will help them thrive in the community.

CSN does not shy away from outreach opportunities that stand to help the people of Southern Nevada diversify our economy. […]

Earlier this week, I told you about the solar panel installation going up on the Charleston campus’ Student Services Building […]

I am proud to announce that CSN’s first solar panels will be generating electrical power by September 10.  CSN has been awarded […]

The CSN Chronicle I hope you are having a wonderful summer and that this June edition of The CSN Chronicle […]

May 10, 2010 Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards John Bearce, Interim Director of Institutional Research K.C. Brekken, Communications Manager Thomas […]

Enjoy and happy Memorial weekend everyone. Please take a moment to give thanks for the men and women who have bravely served this nation.

I want to extend my congratulations to our CSN Coyotes as they work toward their second national championship this weekend […]

Congratulations to the CSN Coyotes baseball team on winning the NJCAA Region XVIII Baseball Championship this weekend at Morse Stadium.

Yesterday, I had the privilege to help honor two individuals, who have given much of their time, energy and passion to help their community, with the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Awards.

  Cabinet Notes April 12, 2010 Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards John Bearce, Interim Director of Institutional Research K.C. Brekken, […]

The CSN Chronicle Greetings and welcome to The CSN Chronicle as we close this academic year.  This May edition provides […]

Good morning, For the last several months an ad hoc committee of faculty and staff has been studying the organization […]

Today is the first day of student elections and I would like to encourage all CSN students to vote! Our […]

The CSN Chronicle  Greetings and welcome to The CSN Chronicle for April 2010.  This is an opportunity for me to […]

Today the Board of Regents approved CSN’s 2010-2011 budget reduction plan. If you missed last week’s town hall, the plan is available on CSN’s Budget Issues Web site, located on our home page.

Dr. Richards reminded the group of Spring Break, March 15-21, and the Legacy of Achievement Gala on April 24 at the M Resort. Jacque Matthews told everyone that so far, the Gala planning and table sales are progressing as expected, but there are plenty of tables and seats still available for purchase.

CSN Town Hall – April 8, 2010

I want to take this opportunity to draw attention to several upcoming events at CSN. First on April 8, CSN […]

Greetings to all! There is much activity on many fronts that I’d like you to know about.

February 08, 2010  Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards John Bearce, Interim Director of Institutional Research K.C. Brekken, Communications Manager Thomas […]

CSN Colleagues: Since the beginning of the year, we have been engaged in an intensive effort on multiple fronts to […]

Approximately 45 higher education students from Southern Nevada, 17 of which were from CSN, took a bus up to Carson City on Monday night, leaving at 10 p.m. to make it to the special session. Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford invited the students to an impromptu meeting with the Senate, where students told lawmakers about why higher education funding matters.

I would just like to say that I am very proud of the CSN students who braved the rain and […]

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Richards at 9 a.m.

The Board of Regents met at the Charleston campus today to discuss the state’s nearly $900 million budget deficit. We estimate this will mean a 22 percent cut in general fund appropriations to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). This would mean a statewide cut to Nevada colleges and universities of about $37 million for the remainder of this year and $110 million for next year.

For CSN, we estimate that this would mean a budget reduction of about $6 million this fiscal year and $18 million next year.

Town Hall Part 1 Town Hall Part 2

As most of you have heard by now, the Economic Forum estimated the state is $800 million in the red […]

Dr. Richards distributed a report from the University System of Maryland that details its efficiency efforts. The reporting system has been in place in Maryland for five years and has helped greatly with funding requests from the Maryland legislature. The NSHE Board of Regents has placed high priority on each of the Nevada institutions‟ ability to demonstrate similar efforts, and detail those efforts in an efficiencies report. Dr. Richards encouraged the cabinet members to visit the University System of Maryland website to view the reports from previous years.

http://www.usmd.edu/usm/workgroups/EEWorkGroup/eeproject/eereports.html

Greetings, Happy New Year and welcome to The CSN Chronicle for January 2010. There is much activity on many fronts that I’d like you to know about.

Holiday Party

As we welcome faculty, staff and students back for spring semester 2010, we are beginning to make internal plans to respond to the governor’s call for budget reduction plans of 6, 8, or 10% for each year of the biennium.