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Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
Fred Maryanski
Richard Perkins
Nevada State College President Fred Maryanski was among a number of people who spoke at Tuesday’s Henderson City Council meeting in support of the school, which could face closure as a result of pending state budget cuts.
Maryanski said his college’s goal is to cater to low-income, first-generation students. About half of the students at Nevada State are the first in their families to earn a four-year college degree, he said.
“I think that’s very important,” he said.
Although the council doesn’t have a say-so in keeping the college open, the speakers, who included former Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson and Chairman of the Board of Regents James Dean Leavitt, used the council meeting a means of showing their support.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a former UNLV professor, said investing in education is vital to the recovery of Nevada’s economy.
Students go to schools like Nevada State “to get the skill and training that they need to be competitive in this new, global economy,” she said.
Richard Perkins, a former speaker of the state Assembly and former Henderson Police chief, said Nevada State College provides an important option for students who don’t want to go to a two-year community college and don’t want to attend UNLV. He applauded Nevada State for offering four-year, vocational majors.
He said that if Nevada State is closed, it would hurt the credibility of graduates who earned their degrees there.
“I think that’s a promise to our citizens that has to be kept,” Perkins said.
Maryanski said about two-thirds of the students at Nevada State are nursing or education majors. He estimated that about 90 percent of graduates stay in the state.
I think it's great that Henderson has a College - for years all the higher education funding in the state has gone to northern Nevada - Hang Tough NSC!
JohnNevada,
From your message, it looks like the college didn't hire you. I'm deeply sorry but I have a feeling the world is a better place for it. However, you may want to consider their intro to business class to beef up your resume, or perhaps their remedial math class (since adding with your fingers takes a long time). (Snicker)
I too say close Nevada State College
Don't worry, cutting Nevada State College isn't on the table. Klaich said so, the media just missed that.
How is it that EVERY time a story is posted about Nevada State 'JohnNevada' posts the same exact thing every time... Dude get over it! NSC doesn't claim to be offering a nationally ranked business degree. The article clearly states how many students are nursing and education, not business.
Johnnevada's comments about the Business Program are cruel and racially discriminatory as well as ignorant. Dr. Moore is one of our college founders and former college presidents and we are fortunate that he still cares enough about the college to contribute. Grace Thompson is a top-notch teacher in the program. It is completely racially discriminatory to try to discredit her because she obtained her Master's degree in Equador. Our state college employees are comprised of a mix of master's prepared and doctorally prepared individuals which is appropriate for a college with an emphasis on TEACHING as opposed to research. Accordingly, our faculty make 1/2 as much or less than that of university professors. Of course, as a small college our cost per student is somewhat higher due to our smaller population, but this is a temporary situation. Some infrastructure is necessary although ours has been pared to the bone. Our faculty lack many resources including paid tutors an we all spend hours of our time weekly offering extra classes and tutoring sessions to struggling students. Prior to NSC, Nevada was the ONLY state in the U.S. without a state college. Anyone who fails to recognize the value of this college to the successful education of a diverse Nevada population is simply uninformed and short-sighted. The cost benefit of closing NSC (only 2% of the higher education budget) is FAR outweighed by the setback to higher education access in Nevada. Do we want to remain 50th in everything?????
JohnNevada,
Get your facts straight before you cut and paste your last response everywhere. No one lowered admission standards. The two year schools have open enrollment - anyone can take classes. The state college has a 2.0 requirement, and the universities have a 3.2 requirement. They all work together to help us become more educated as a state. That's why it is a system (Nevada System of Higher Education) and not just a bunch of competing schools.
I would like to add - if you were a first generation college student whose parents did not speak english and who had nobody to help with homework, had to work to help support your family, grew up in poverty, and had actually achieved a 2.0 GPA, and had a dream to achieve a college education, we could get you there. If not, who knows where you would end up. Of course, college is not for everyone, but we need to level the playing field a little for those who lack those college prepatory opportunities.
It's evident NSC has grown as a college since opening and is fulfilling their mission in the state. It's also evident that JohnNevada has some sort of personal vendetta against this institution, as his comments factually inaccurate and slanderous in tone.
Please do not close NSC or I'll lose my job at NSC. I teach at NSC for 3 years and love it there.
I agree with marj that johnnevada has some kind of personal vendetta against Nevada State College for whatever reason - if I speculated on why, I would be lowering myself to his level. His comments are non-factual, and too disproportionatley hateful and dramatic to be coming from someone who is merely stating a factual, political state-cost-saving opinion. I am confident that all Sun readers will see through this individuals vitriol for what it is - We could exchange insults all day with this disgruntled "gentleman" but 'nuff said. Let's talk about something productive and some positive solutions to help this state get back on its feet educationally. NSC is one step in that direction.
Comming in with 2.0 GPA, but graduate with 3.5, that's real education. NSC graduate standard is not lower than any others, that's fact.
Our students are diverse and nontradictional, now you see why 16 percent graduation rate is significant in those populations.
The people who thinks only American Professors are qualified to teach in America are ignorant and racist. That's by definition of "ignorant" and "racist".
Shame on someone who does not even know how to properly divide 11 milion with 2600 with calculator. I assure you anyone in the NSC will tell you it's 4230. not 40,000.
Enough said.
JohnNevada seems to think that NSC doesn't have a purpose, but why don't you take a look at what the students have to say about NSC..isn't that who a school is supposed to serve? http://www.nsc.nevada.edu/hpcontents.asp... Go to that link and click on "my story." If you don't take the time to do this, there is really no basis for anything you say, because that would mean you don't care to do some research and realize you might be wrong, but instead that you just like being ignorant and rude.
Also, JohnNevada, you pick and choose what to keep responding to in your posts and don't respond to things that are stated such as the instructors at NSC working long hours to help students because they have limited resources right now. You are incredibly disrespectful to people who are working very hard to service a population of students who probably wouldn't receive a 4-year degree without the existence of NSC...the students themselves will tell you this. They deserve an education too and work hard while they are here. If you took the time to hear that side of things, you probably wouldn't be making these comments and if you still would then that is just heartless and rude. I hope you are done making posts now and grattigan was right anyways...anyone who reads your posts can tell that you have something personal against NSC, because your comments are written with such hate and not the facts.
For Johnnevada sorry your guess for my identity is wrong. I am only a first semester student at NSC who is taking English 101, and English is not my first language. I admitted that I still need to work on my grammar :p
However, your intentional or untentional "misreading" of decimals makes people who read your comment draw the wrong conclusion about the facts, I think that is more serious matter than grammarical errors.
JohnNevada: If you would actually stop and think you would understand that what I was trying to show you by using the Nevada State College website is that real students (I know they are, because I work at NSC) posted stories about their wonderful experiences here. It's not only the students on the website either, it's students that I personally speak with on the phone who are fighting for their school to stay open, because they do value their education here. You can make insults all you want, but there is nothing you can say that can debate the students loving their school and wanting it to remain open, so they can better themselves with a college education.
Also, you keep quoting the whole, "we only require a 2.0 to get in here," but this is not uncommon for state colleges. Also, you obviously didn't bother to look at any of the requirements students have to meet to stay in good standing within their programs here. Seriously, do more research and quit quoting the same things that you are taking out of context.
To iamcake: Please do not let JohnNevada put you down for getting an education. He is obviously just an angry person with nothing better to do with his time. You should be proud of your accomplishments!
hey caric & Davy, if you work at nsc, answer me this.
why did Maryanski kill the applied sciences program? the fine arts program? he didn't even give them a fighting chance.
and why won't he take down that information from your website, since it's false advertising to say you offer these programs when you actually don't anymore.
seems if we wants to diversify and grow the student body population, he would want to attract a wider range of students and offer a better selection of majors.
wranglersfan: As an employee of any company you don't know why every decision is made, but I can assure you that President Maryanski wants the best for NSC and that if programs were cut it was probably because we weren't getting enough students in those programs to fund them...not to mention this isn't the first time we've had budget cuts. As for the website, we recently went live with a new website and are all still working out the kinks. I don't know if where you work has ever had a major change like that with a brand new website, but this is the 2nd place I've worked at where I've been through this change and it takes a while to iron everything out and make the changes appropriately. The other place I'm referring to was a huge university that also had to work on kinks when we had went live with a new website.
Applied Science and Fine Arts were victims of the first budget cut... that is what happens when education loses funding.