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November Cabinet Notes

November 08, 2010 Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards Vartouhi Asherian, Chair, Administrative Faculty Assembly John Bearce, Director of Institutional Research – absent K.C. Brekken, Communications Director Thomas Brown, Chief Campus Administrator, Cheyenne Art Byrd, Vice President, Student Affairs – absent   … Continue reading

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November Chronicle

Last month’s Chronicle described the goals of Complete College America and the Obama Administration’s efforts to fund more certificate and degree completions. Paralleling these initiatives are renewed accountability and public communication activities at the national level. The American Association of Community Colleges is launching a Voluntary Framework of Accountability that will be piloted by three dozen colleges this year. And there are new proposals for better measuring student success in community colleges.

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CSN is a Sound Investment for Nevadans

“Worthwhile public projects often generate negative taxpayer perspective returns, because the role of government is to provide services that the public wants but that the business sector may find unprofitable … But unlike most government endeavors funding for CSN generates strong results from both the social and taxpayer perspectives. Economists generally assume a 3% discount rate in analyzing government investments, assuming that governments can obtain unsecured loans at a rate of 3% or receive a 3% return on any excess funds, if they were invested. Since CSN’s taxpayer rate of return of 9.2% is greater than 3%, state and local governments actually make money on the investment. By funding the college, therefore, other recipients of state and local funding are actually subsidized through the revenues generated by the college.”
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Nevada and the White House Summit on Community Colleges

Last week, under the leadership of President Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, a historic White House Summit on Community Colleges convened in Washington D.C.   This was a very special experience for me and for the entire national system of colleges … Continue reading

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CSN September 2010 Chronicle

Greetings to all!  I hope your semester is going well.  There is much activity on many fronts that I’d like you to know about.    Strategic and Fiscal Direction  Many preliminaries are underway preparatory to the 2011 legislative session.  On August … Continue reading

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August Cabinet Minutes

August 09, 2010  Cabinet Members: President Mike Richards – absent Vartouhi Asherian, Chair, Administrative Faculty Assembly John Bearce, Interim Director of Institutional Research K.C. Brekken, Communications Manager Thomas Brown, Chief Campus Administrator, Cheyenne – absent Art Byrd, Vice President, Student … Continue reading

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Shared Governance at CSN

I believe creating an ombudsman role to facilitate this communication and ensuring CSN has its own watch dog to make certain policies and procedures are followed will go a long way to strengthen faculty governance at CSN.

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CSN partners with Expertise Cosmetology Institute

Starting this fall, the college will offer a business course at the institute with the hope that some of the students will come to CSN to complete a Certificate in Business Management.

This will help those students who intend to work for major salons or have their own operation create a business plan, design a budget and develop other major skills that will help them thrive in the community.

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June Chronicle

The CSN Chronicle I hope you are having a wonderful summer and that this June edition of The CSN Chronicle finds you well.  As always, there is much news to share.  System Initiatives  A number of initiatives from Chancellor Klaich … Continue reading

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Happy Memorial Weekend

Enjoy and happy Memorial weekend everyone. Please take a moment to give thanks for the men and women who have bravely served this nation. Continue reading

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