Since 1957, the university has grown to more than 28,000 students. What started as one building in the middle of the desert is now over 90 facilities on a thriving 337-acre campus. We?re only going to get bigger and stronger and the Donald C. Moyer StudentUnion (MSU) and Paul B. ? McDermott Physical Education (MPE) Complex are too small and out-dated to meet the needs of today’s UNLV?s students. So we?re building a brand new StudentUnion and Student Recreation and Wellness Center.
The university?s origins were humble, indeed. In 1951, when the post-war boom had swollen Las Vegas? metropolitan population to more than 50,000, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), established an extension program. Twenty-eight students began meeting for classes in the dressing rooms of Las Vegas High School?s auditorium. In 1954, the Nevada Board of Regents founded the Southern Regional Division of the university of Nevada, popularly known as Nevada Southern. Students adopted the Rebelname and mascot to reflect their desire to break free from UNR. After Las Vegas residents exerted pressure, the regents decided to acquire land for a campus, finally selecting an 80-acre parcel along the two-lane dirt road known as MarylandParkway.
On September 10, 1957, the first classes were held on campus in a new 13,000-square-foot building, later named for Maude Frazier, a state assemblywoman and foundingforce behind NevadaSouthern. A year later, the school received accreditation from the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. To serve the growing enrollment, buildings went up in a flurry of construction, including a physical education and health center, a science and technology building, a classroom building named for regentArchie C. Grant, and the James R. DickinsonLibrary, named for the first director of the extension program.
Despite its expansion, NevadaSouthern remained under UNR?s control. In fact, university officials required students to spend a semester in Reno before graduating. After fighting to become a degree-granting institution, NevadaSouthern held its first commencement in 1964, graduating 29 students as the “CentennialClass” in honor of Nevada?s 100th anniversary as a state. the next year, the school became Nevada Southern University, with its own curriculum. Donald Moyer served as its first chancellor and then became its first president in 1968, when the university finally won its autonomy under the state?s higher education system, giving it equal status to UNR.
In 1969, with the Board of Regents? approval, the university adopted its currentname. By the following year, as Las Vegas?s metropolitan population reached 275,000, UNLV enrolled more than 5,500 students. During the 1977-78 academic year, UNLV surpassed UNR in total enrollment.
Over the next three decades, UNLV continued this heady rate of development?erecting more than 100 buildings, developing dozens of graduate programs, creating partnerships with the community, fielding nationally rankedsports teams, founding an alumni association, promoting scholarship, establishing a fundraising foundation, and recruiting diverse and talented students from across the country.
Today, UNLV has come a long way from the high school dressing rooms that once served as its classrooms. Thanks to the dedication of faculty, staff members, students, generous donors, and Las Vegas residents over the past half century, the university has much to celebrate!
More than 1,000 full-time faculty teach 28,000-plus students, including 6,000 graduate and professional students.
At its 44th commencement in May 2007, the university had a record number of graduates, more than 2,700.
In 2006, UNLV received more than $94 million in total extramural funding, with about $68 million supporting research.
The Carnegiefoundation for the Advancement of Teaching has placed UNLV in the prestigious category of Research Universities with High Research Activity.
UNLV?s first comprehensive fundraising campaign, Invent the Future, recently passed the $337 million mark.
Students compete in 20 intramural sports and 16 sports at the NCAA/Division I intercollegiate level.
The 350-acre campus includes branches specializing in biotechnology, dental medicine, and research and technology. In addition, UNLV recently established its first internationalcampus in Singapore.
Looking ahead, opportunities for this pioneering institution abound. At his inauguration in April 2007, David B. Ashley, UNLV?s eighth president, declared, “We will remain unwavering in our commitment to honoring the past with boldsteps forward. We shall transform ourselves as a university. In this process, we will transform both the lives of our students and the Future of this community.”
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