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Strengthening The Southern Nevada Workforce Pipeline, Katie M. Gilbertson
Strengthening The Southern Nevada Workforce Pipeline, Katie M. Gilbertson
Student Research
Workforce development has been a keystone in the discussion of economic diversification of Las Vegas for decades. The leisure and hospitality industry is the lifeline for the Southern Nevada economy due to the reliance on tourism as the city’s main economic driver. The leisure and hospitality industry requires physical labor and more face-to-face customer interaction than other employment sectors. Thus, these jobs often do not require high educational attainment, but rather sharp soft skills like effective listening, nonverbal communication, and negotiation strategies. While these are valuable traits, the lack of educational attainment within the leisure and hospitality workforce suppresses employees’ …
Unlv Libraries: Partners In Student Learning, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Unlv Libraries: Partners In Student Learning, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Lied Library Open House for the 2014 American Library Association Conference
The University Libraries play a central educational role at UNLV. Librarians offer workshops for faculty on assignment design and research on student learning. The workshops emphasize learning outcomes, active learning, and assessment of student learning. Institutes leverage UNLV Librarians’ expertise with facilitation and information literacy learning outcomes.
Learning Outcomes for Faculty Institutes:
- To understand how research-based learning approaches support student success.
- To articulate goals and learning outcomes for research assignments in order to communicate expectations to students and form the basis for assessment of student work.
- To investigate research-based learning activities that integrate library and information resources.
- To discover technology …
Delta Project On Postsecondary Costs, Productivity, And Accountability: A Campus Perspective – University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Delta Project On Postsecondary Costs, Productivity, And Accountability: A Campus Perspective – University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
I will start by pointing out that I don’t completely agree with Director Wellman’s conclusions that it’s a horrible state of affairs when investments from tuition and state sources are misdirected to support non‐instruction infrastructure. As a research university with aspirations of enhancing its research agenda, in a state that desperately needs that research UNLV expects to grow those support services in order to grow its research initiatives, and thereby contribute in meaningful ways to the reinvention of the Nevada economy – one sorely hampered by its single industry focus. The Delta Project data calls into question the relationship of …
Graduate Programming For Working Professionals: What Makes A Difference?, Christine G. Springer
Graduate Programming For Working Professionals: What Makes A Difference?, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Presentations
Education: A Graduate Degree Designed for New and Working Professionals
Mission: To provide a well-rounded graduate learning experience to current and future crisis and emergency management leaders for effectively addressing natural, intentional and technical disasters
We're Moving Into Unlv's New Science And Engineering Building, Scott R. Abella
We're Moving Into Unlv's New Science And Engineering Building, Scott R. Abella
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
Our research group is one of the few select groups that is moving into the new, $113-million UNLV Science and Engineering Building. The building is exclusively dedicated to research, and its four stories contain 200,000 square feet of research laboratories, faculty offices, and auditorium space for research symposia. Located on North Campus just northeast of the Biology Building, the building is anticipated to obtain LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.