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Prior to the town halls, CSN issued an open-ended survey question to college employees to solicit questions they would like addressed during the upcoming town hall. CSN President Michael Richards opened each town hall responding to the majority of these inquiries. Salary & Benefits Nearly half of survey respondents wanted information on salaries and benefits in the [...] Greetings! On Friday, we announced that CSN has been selected to join an elite group of colleges as part of the Achieving the Dream National Reform Network. Achieving the Dream is the nation’s most comprehensive non-governmental reform network for student success in higher education. The organization strives to improve member colleges’ practices and procedures to close [...] Gov. Brian Sandoval has made Nevada’s economic vitality a priority for his administration and invests time and energy to that end. Along the way he is learning, as are many Nevadans, about what our public higher education system can do to help and what it needs to do better. For decades, Nevada’s colleges and universities responded [...] “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 [...] |
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