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In a joint press release Wednesday, Sierra Nevada University’s board of trustees and leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno, announced a framework for UNR to absorb SNU. The agreement will require various approvals, including from accrediting bodies, the U.S. Department of Education and Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents. The release reads:...

Citing a stagnant enrollment and Covid 19-related shortfalls in revenue, Sierra Nevada University cut nine faculty positions June 21, dealing a blow to several departments as the college aims to reduce costs. Several longtime and beloved faculty were among those who were informed that they would be offered a severance instead of an annual contract,...

News of potential impending layoffs hit the e-mail inboxes of Sierra Nevada University faculty members April 30, in a letter from SNU president, Dr. Rob Valli. In it, he expressed that the combined financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, along with general hardships that have been threatening higher education, require SNU to reconsider eliminating faculty...

On April 22, Sierra Nevada University students hosted the first annual SNU Earth Day Festival. The event was organized by the SNU Climate Alliance and Social Justice Clubs, as well as the SNU Freeride Club and faculty sponsors. The festival featured numerous guest appearances, such as a land acknowledgement from a Paiute Elder, a guided...

Sierra Nevada University announced that its 51st annual commencement will be held in-person on May 15. Hosted on Patterson Lawn, weather permitting, students will be able to have up to two guests watch them graduate in a socially distanced setting. Dean of Students Will Hoida wrote in an e-mail interview that this year’s commencement will...

“It’s the books I’ve read, the friendships I have had, the relationships that have come and gone, the jobs, the heartaches. Life experience, if you are open to it, makes for a richer human being. So, when assignments come your way, you have this wealth of information that you have chewed on and digested and...

Students pitching tents, and practicing knots, going to and from their next adventure…daily interactions with familiar faces telling inspiring stories. This summer camp-like scene is not far from the realities of many Sierra Nevada University students’ first experience at the school. But, like most things since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March of last year,...

Author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will join a storied history at Sierra Nevada University, as the featured “common read” author for 2021, with her acclaimed novel “World of Wonders.” She will also headline a Writers in the Woods reading and workshop Sept. 24-25. Her New York Times best-selling book is an exciting collection of non-fiction creative essays...

On March 3, Sierra Nevada University held its fifteenth Business Pitch Competition. There were 22 ideas pitched, and SNU senior Madalyn Johnson won first prize for her innovative and sustainable GPS-enabled ski tracking device called GP-SKI. Johnson is 21 years old and originally from Michigan. She plans to graduate from SNU this spring. Her GP-SKI...

On Wednesday, March 31, I presented my senior thesis with Sierra Nevada University’s BFA Creative Writing students preparing to graduate this May. While the Zoom presentation was only an hour, the readings by the four of us represented a writing and editing process that spanned over the last few years. Chair of the Humanities Department,...