{"id":1425,"date":"2018-11-07T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/?post_type=nshe_news&#038;p=1425"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:56:05","slug":"four-regents-elected-to-the-nevada-system-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/news\/2018\/11\/four-regents-elected-to-the-nevada-system-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Regents elected to the Nevada System of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four Regents, including three newcomers, were elected to the 13-member Nevada Board of Regents which governs the Nevada System of Higher Education, its eight\u00a0institutions, and more than 100,000 students.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incumbent&nbsp;Regent&nbsp;Carol Del Carlo&nbsp;(District 9)&nbsp;will be joined by newcomers Laura Perkins&nbsp;(District&nbsp;1), Donald McMichael&nbsp;(District&nbsp;4), and Amy&nbsp;Carvalho&nbsp;(District&nbsp;12) following Tuesday\u2019s elections.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elected to serve a six-year term, the 13 Regents set policies and approve budgets for Nevada\u2019s entire public system of higher education, including four community colleges, one state college, two research universities and one research institute.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Board&nbsp;Regents Chair Kevin J. Page welcomed the new regents to the Board.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with them and hearing their thoughts and ideas on how to improve student success in Nevada higher education,\u201d&nbsp;he said.&nbsp;\u201cWe must move forward as one system to create the skilled workforce Nevada needs to continue our state\u2019s&nbsp;economic success.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be a&nbsp;ceremonial&nbsp;swearing in for the four regents&nbsp;at&nbsp;the Jan.&nbsp;18&nbsp;meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight institutions the regents govern include: The&nbsp;College of Southern Nevada; Desert Research Institute; Great Basin College; Nevada State College; Truckee Meadows Community College; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; University of Nevada, Reno; and Western Nevada College.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}