Panel will study funding for colleges

Friday, Sept. 10, 1999 | 10:02 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Gov. Kenny Guinn today appointed Don Snyder, president of the UNLV Foundation, to a committee that will study funding disparities between northern and southern campuses of 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 nonvoting members.

The committee was created following complaints that UNLV and CCSN were getting less funding 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. It said CCSN should receive $1,291 more per student.

The committee is charged with looking at the existing method of financing higher education in Nevada compared to other states. University officials have complained that the Legislature does not fully fund support staff such as librarians, counselors and maintenance workers. And the commission will examine what to do uneven distribution of legislative appropriations if there is any.