June 20, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Suzanne Ernst (702) 889-8426

Board of Regents Selects New Chair and Vice Chair

ELKO, Nevada-The Nevada Board of Regents today unanimously elected Regent Douglas Seastrand to serve as chair and Regent Thalia Dondero to serve as vice chair.

Regents Seastrand and Dondero will begin their one-year terms starting July 1. The Board's current chair Thalia Dondero and vice chair Howard Rosenberg will complete their terms June 30.

Regent Seastrand was elected to the Board of Regents in 1998 and is currently the chair of the ad hoc Health Care Education Committee. He is also a member of the Academic, Research and Student Affairs Committee, the Campus Environment Committee and the Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) Organizational Advisory Committee.

A native of Las Vegas, Regent Seastrand is currently the vice president of research and development and the vice president of software development for eRoom System Technologies, Inc. He earned a B.S. in computer science with emphasis in mathematics and engineering.

Regent Dondero was elected to the Board of Regents in 1996 and currently serves as board chair, as well as chair of the Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) Organizational Advisory Committee. She was also a member of the board's ad hoc Great Basin College (GBC) Presidential Search Committee, the Millennium Bound Outreach Center Task Force and the ad hoc Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) Presidential Search Committee.

Regent Dondero has been a resident of Las Vegas since 1943. She served 20 years with the Clark County Commissioners, including three terms as chair and one term as vice chair. Currently she serves on the board of Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, is chair of the Advisory Committee of the Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry for the State of Nevada, and serves on the Summerlin Hospital Board of Trustees.

The Nevada Board of Regents is the elected, 11-member governing body for the University and Community College System of Nevada. Comprising two doctoral granting universities, a state college, four comprehensive community colleges and one internationally acclaimed research institute, the UCCSN serves the educational and job training needs of the nation's fastest growing state. As Nevada's only system of higher education, the UCCSN provides educational opportunities to nearly 100,000 students.

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