How should we use social media at CSN?

A number of institutions are using social media to engage faculty, staff, and students. I’ve noticed social media–like this blog–growing at CSN. We have Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and other outlets. Are we using these in helpful ways for the college community? [...]

Channel 3 Interview, Part V

This is the final interview with former Chancellor Jim Rogers. In it, we discuss what CSN is doing to help keep K-12 students in school and prepared for postsecondary [...]

Channel 3 Interview, Part IV

In this segment, I talk with former Chancellor and KVBC station owner Jim Rogers about how CSN is dealing with increased enrollments and budget [...]

Channel 3 interview, part III

Former Chancellor Jim Rogers and I talk about what CSN is doing to help students achieve their educational goals, including a potential dual admissions program with NSC and UNLV that will build off of CSN’s partnership with the school district and help students transfer seamlessly from high school to post-secondary education. Click on the screen [...]

Channel 3 interview, part II

In this segment, I talk with former Chancellor Jim Rogers about CSN partnerships with Clark County high schools and other institutions.

CSN has classes at more than a dozen local high schools that allow juniors and seniors to get college credit before they graduate with their high school diploma. We have partnerships with 15 trade unions [...]

Channel 3 Interview

Recently, I had the opportunity to do an interview with former Chancellor Jim Rogers on KVBC to discuss CSN’s significance to Nevada. This is the first of series of interviews that are running this week on Channel 3 at noon. [...]

October Cabinet Notes

Cabinet Notes

October 12, 2009 

Cabinet Members:

President Mike Richards

John Bearce, Interim Director of Institutional Research

K.C. Brekken, Manager of Communications

Thomas Brown, Chief Campus Administrator, Cheyenne

Art Byrd, Vice President, Student Affairs

Patty Charlton, Senior Vice President for Finance & Facilities

Darren Divine, Interim Vice President, Academic Affairs

Richard Hinckley, General Counsel – absent

Bill Kerney, Faculty Senate Chair-Elect – absent

Penny McCollum, Campus [...]

November Chronicle

Greetings, and welcome to The CSN Chronicle for November 2009. The Chronicle lets me share some of the news and important questions raised by our faculty and staff members from time-to-time. [...]

CSN Faculty Featured at Vegas Valley Book Festival and Other College News

I want to take a moment to urge you to attend the Vegas Valley Book Festival this week if you have a chance. Some of CSN’s faculty will be highlighted at this event.

CSN Professor H. Lee Barnes, a novelist and short story writer, whom we are very proud to say was recently inducted in the [...]