A group of 30 UNLV students and faculty delivered a petition with nearly 1,000 signatures to university President Len Jessup’s office Monday, asking that the university become a sanctuary campus.

What did the 2016 election mean? Commentaries, analyses and tweets abound. For Nevadans, the answer is different, because the results turned out to be different. For only the second time in a century, Nevada’s electoral votes won’t go to the winning presidential candidate.

In the wake of the presidential election, a number of cities and towns and college campuses have declared themselves sanctuary zones – places where people who are undocumented can feel safe, and secure that they won’t be picked up by police or turned in solely on the basis of their immigration status.

The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) will receive a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to create a Tier-1 university transportation center (UTC) to improve rail infrastructure in Nevada and throughout the country, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced late last week.

A UNLV math instructor who came under fire for comments he made about wanting to report undocumented immigrants in his classroom has since apologized and now claims it was a bad joke.
The controversy is now fueling a new call for the university to become a “sanctuary campus.”

While the Trump and Clinton Las Vegas Presidential Debate is long over, UNLV is still explaining the cost. UNLV President Len Jessup answered tough questions on Friday from the Nevada System of Higher Education, the governing board over the state’s seven colleges, about the price tag for the Oct. 19 debate on the campus of the southern Nevada university.

She always felt like a man, not a girl.

UNLV says it is looking into online comments about illegal immigration attributed to a part-time instructor quoted as saying there are “no safe spaces” in his class and seeming to suggest he would turn in undocumented students to immigration officials.

A part-time math instructor at UNLV has embroiled the university in a national immigration debate that was a focus of the presidential campaign and appears to have been reignited across the country in recent days.