Greenspun College considered
Monday, Sept. 30, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.
The university Board of Regents will consider Friday a motion to name a newly organized UNLV college the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs.
The name change comes in the wake of a reorganization plan passed this summer that resulted in the autonomous Greenspun School of Communication being placed under the College of Urban Affairs.
The Greenspun family, which owns the SUN, will donate $1.7 million to the university to bring its total bequests over the years to more than $5 million.
The gift will be used to hire several professors and for student scholarships.
"The continued generosity of the Greenspun family is extremely appreciated," Provost Douglas Ferraro said today. "The gift will allow us to have an important jump-start to our new College of Urban Affairs.
"And we at the university believe this college typifies the kind of active community service the Greenspun family is so well known for."
Barbara Greenspun, publisher of the paper founded by her late husband, Hank Greenspun, noted that he "committed his life to the betterment of a growing Las Vegas community. That is why my family created the Greenspun School of Communication to continue his dream.
"Today, we are able to further his goal of a well-educated community by creating the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs.
"Together with the Greenspun School of Communication, the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs will be at the forefront in preparing students for the major challenge of urban living in the coming century."
In July, a Board of Regents committee unanimously approved UNLV's proposed academic reorganization that would shuffle 16 percent of the faculty and affect more than 3,000 students.
Ferraro said the reorganization was the best possible way to meet the needs of the university.
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