Committee to study university funding

Friday, Sept. 10, 1999 | 4:54 a.m.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARSON CITY - Gov. Kenny Guinn on Friday appointed UNLV Foundation President Don Snyder to a committee to study funding for the University and Community College System of Nevada.

The governor also named Dixie May, president of the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation and James Richardson, the lobbyist for the Nevada Faculty Alliance, as his other two voting members on the committee which is also composed of legislators and regents.

In addition, Guinn selected UNLV President Carol Harter, UNR President Joseph Crowley and Community College of Southern Nevada President Richard Moore to be non-voting members. And he named state Budget Director Perry Comeaux or his designee to sit with the committee.

It was created, in part, after there were complaints that UNLV and CCSN were getting less per student than their counterparts in the north. A preliminary study by MGT of America, a Tallahassee, Fla.-based research organization, found that UNR received $534 more per full-time student than does UNLV. And it said the Community College of Southern Nevada should receive $1,291 more per student.

The 1999 Legislature allocated some money to take care the disparity but not the full amount.

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