December 12, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Suzanne Ernst (702) 889-8426

Regents Renew UNLV President’s Contract Through 2008

LAS VEGAS—The Board of Regents today unanimously approved a three-year contract extension for University of Nevada, Las Vegas president, Dr. Carol Harter.

The extension goes from July 1, 2005 to June 30,2008. In addition, Harter will receive a 3 percent merit increase on top of her current salary of $209,038. The merit increase will take effect on January 1, 2004.

“President Harter received a remarkable evaluation,” said Dr. Stavros Anthony, board chair. “We’re fortunate to have someone of her caliber leading such a dynamic institution,”

Harter, the seventh president of UNLV, assumed her current post in July 1995. Prior to her arrival at UNLV, she served as president of the State University of New York at Geneseo for six years. Before assuming her first presidency, Harter spent almost 19 years at Ohio University where she was a faculty member, ombudsman, and served in two vice presidential roles.

Since Harter’s appointment in 1995, UNLV has created 80 new degree options, half of which are at the graduate level. Many of the programs are aimed at alleviating Nevada’s shortage of highly trained professionals in such areas as physical therapy, health physics, and environmental sciences.

Harter also represents the Mountain West Conference on the NCAA’s Divison I Board of Directors and serves on the NCAA Executive Committee and the NCAA Budget Committee. She is a past member of the NCAA Football Study Oversight Committee.

The Nevada Board of Regents is the elected, 13-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 environmental 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 98,000 students.

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