164 165 THE UNIVERSITY Combining the excitement of an urban location with the charm of a traditional campus, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers students a full educational and social experience. UNLV CAMPUS FACTS Just decades old, UNLV has maintained a healthy rate of growth in enrollment, programs and Campus founded .......................................... 1957 scholastic excellence as part of the eight-component Nevada System of Higher Education. Located Campus size ........................................ 340 acres in the heart of one of the world’s most vibrant and dynamic cities, UNLV has matured along with the Total enrollment......................................... 27,334 Las Vegas area. With enrollment more than doubling the last decade, the tremendous growth has Average undergraduate class size ................... 30 meant a flurry of construction resulting in a campus setting boasting academic and athletic facilities Average graduate class size ............................ 11 second to none. Average undergraduate age ............................ 24 Steadily becoming a traditional residential university, UNLV provides on-campus housing for Average graduate age...................................... 34 more than 2,000 students. A variety of student clubs and organizations along with 26 Greek Female students ........................................... 56% organizations supplement the social development of students. Male students ................................................ 44% From within its 15 schools and colleges, including the new William S. Boyd School of Law, Total employees .......................................... 2,889 UNLV is also becoming a leading research institution of the West. The school’s scientific, social Faculty with doctorates ................................. 89% science, and business programs attract millions of dollars in research grants annually Faculty with terminal degrees ....................... 95% to fund projects in desert biology, nuclear Undergraduate degree programs ................... 106 waste transportation, laser physics, public Graduate degree programs ............................ 117 opinion surveys and many others. Total 2004 graduates .................................. 4,009 In addition to its regular academic programs, Undergraduate per-credit fee ......................... $98 UNLV offers area residents more than 600 Graduate per-credit fee ................................ $136 classes through its Division of Continuing Education, which enrolls approximately 16,000 students annually. UNLV operates an on-campus Center for Business and With its Performing Arts Center, the campus Economic Research, Center for Economic Education, Harry is the cultural hub of Southern Nevada. World- Reid Center for Environmental Studies (in cooperation with class orchestras and soloists, dance and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Desert Biology theater arts combine to provide a broad Research Center, Center for Survey Research, Nuclear Waste selection of concerts and stage productions. Transportation Research Center and other research and The Barrick Lecture Series and several public-service centers. campus organizations bring noted speakers to Offering 106 undergraduate programs and 117 graduate the University, and local and visiting tracts, UNLV graduated a class of more than 4,000 last year. artists show their works in the Donna Beam The University operates on a semester system and is a Fine Art Gallery. UNLV has excellent athletic member of the American Association of State Colleges and facilities as well, many open for student and Universities, the Council of Graduate Schools, the American public use. Council of Education and the Western College Association. Opened in 1957 as the southern regional All of the University’s academic programs are fully accredited division of the University of Nevada with a total by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, and of 28 students, UNLV now is home to more many programs have received further accreditation from than 27,000 students coming from every independent national accreditation bodies. county in Nevada, all 50 U.S. states and 88 countries. Much of UNLV’s tremendous expansion is the result of support from the Nevada Legislature and the state’s taxpayers. Private donors have played an important role as well. These gifts support new facilities and programs and, most important, provide the scholarship incentives that bring Nevada’s best and brightest student scholars to campus. LIED LIBRARY UNLV’s new Lied Library offers 302,000 square feet of striking architectural features and cutting-edge technology. The $55 million facility, which holds nearly 900,000 volumes, is being hailed as the new heart of campus and a valuable community resource. 166 UNLV PRESIDENT 27,000 and employs 2,800 faculty and staff who occupy a 340-acre campus in the heart of Las Vegas. The Vegas for a research and technology park, and is in the process of acquiring property for another regional site in North Las Vegas. UNLV also is working with county officials and private developers to revitalize the area immediately surrounding the main campus. Dubbed “Midtown UNLV,” the project will help create a university district along Maryland Parkway by transforming the area into one of the valley’s premier cultural gathering places. During her tenure at UNLV, more than 17 new buildings have been added and many other facilities have undergone extensive and significant renovations. Upcoming projects include the Science, Engineering and Technology Building, the Student Recreation Center, the expanded Moyer Student Union, an addition to the Student Services Building, and the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs building. Harter has led efforts to raise a record amount of private funds, pledges, and estate and trust expectancies for facilities, program support, and scholarships – averaging over $50 million a year in the past ten years. Among these gifts, Harter secured an endowed Chair in Creative Writing currently held by Nevada’s first Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. This year UNLV will publicly announce its first-ever fundraising Capital Campaign with an anticipated goal of more than $400 million being raised for academic programs, scholarships, endowments, and facilities support – an unprecedented number in the history of fundraising in Nevada. The university now Offers more than 220 degree programs including 34 doctorates, 117 graduate and professional degree programs, and 106 undergraduate degree programs. As the leader of this $405 million organization, President Harter is recognized as one of the top female executives in Nevada. DR. CAROL C. Dr. Harter is an active member of both the academic and regional community. She currently serves on the Board of Southwest USA Bank, and during the past 10 HARTER years has twice served on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors and the NCAA Executive Committee. She has also Carol C. Harter is the seventh president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas served on the NCAA Executive ALL-TIME Committee and she was a member (UNLV), a post she has held for the past 10 years. Prior to her arrival at UNLV, Harter of the NCAA Football Study PRESIDENTS served as president of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo for six William D. Carlson 1957-65 years and spent almost 19 years at Ohio University where she was a faculty member, Oversight Committee. She is a past board member of the Council for Donald C. Moyer 1965-68 ombudsman, and served in two vice presidential roles. International Education Exchange Roman J. Zorn 1969-74 Since Dr. Harter’s appointment in 1995, UNLV has created 90 new degree programs. Many of the programs are aimed at alleviating Nevada’s shortage of highly and past trustee of the Associated Donald Baepler 1974-78 Western Universities. trained professionals in areas such as education, nursing, physical therapy, health Brock Dixon 1978-79 As President of UNLV, Dr. physics, and environmental sciences. Other new programs are in unique areas of Leonard “Pat” Goodall 1979-84 study, such as senior adult theatre and creative writing with an international focus, Harter has received numerous Robert C. Maxson 1984-94 national awards including the and in executive master’s and doctoral programs designed for working professionals. Kenny Guinn 1994-95 Presidential Leadership Award by Under her leadership, UNLV created the William S. Boyd School of Law, the Carol C. Harter 1995-SA School of Architecture, and the School of Dentistry – the first professional schools in the National Collegiate Honors Council, the President’s Award by Nevada in these areas. Two executive degrees also were created – the Executive the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals, and the College President’s MBA and the Executive Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership. Taken together, these new schools and Award by the All American Football Foundation. Locally she has received the Educator of the Year Award by the Nevada Hospitality Foundation, the Las Vegas Chamber of programs have raised the Commerce Community Achievement Award in Education, the Woman of Distinction level of professional education in Nevada and are Award by the National Association of Women Business Owners, and the Asian Chamber of Commerce’s Educator of the Year Award. helping to supply the region A native of New York City, Harter is a three-time graduate of the State University with the human capital that both relocating and of New York at