College campuses are often a hotbed for innovation aimed at promoting student success. However, sometimes a simple text message is all it takes to point a struggling student in the right direction.

Higher education institutions aren’t shying away from revamping their IT and embracing new technology. A Unit4 survey found that 73 percent of universities have changed their organizational IT structure to support student success in the last two years.

Nancy Lough, a professor in the UNLV education college and who has a sports-business background, said it’s a good move because the WNBA won’t compete against the NFL when the Raiders arrive in 2020 or the NHL Golden Knights in the Las Vegas market because the WNBA schedule is mostly in the summer.

As more states adopt funding formulas based on student performance — such as graduation rates and degrees awarded — higher education institutions are ­laser-focused on improving retention. Regardless of state policy, however, such strategies make fiscal sense: Enrolling a new student is more expensive than retaining a current one. To both control those costs and serve students more effectively, many institutions leverage data analytics.

Funding for the statewide school turnaround program should continue but warrants further analysis, the only one of seven education initiatives recommended for monitoring in a study presented to the Nevada Assembly education committee.

In artist Chad Scott's exhibit He Said … She Said at Winchester Cultural Center, the famously branded and well-groomed talking heads of cable news celebritydom talk simultaneously from 12 TV monitors and three radios. The abundance of chatter and conflicting commentary becomes a nightmare or delirium one has slipped into merely by walking through the gallery door.

Professional Bull Riding may get an argument from other sports, but for now it is forging ahead with its "toughest sport on Earth" marketing strategy as it aims to increase its business profile in the Las Vegas market.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan for lowering the cost of higher education and reducing the roughly $1.2 trillion student loan debt held by American students could strengthen Nevada's postsecondary institutions while saving money for the state's college students, local education experts say.

If you weren’t a fan of soccer before 2015, America’s record-breaking victory in this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup just might make one out of you. In early July, all eyes were on the U.S. Women’s National Team as it became the first to win three FIFA Women’s World Cups and the only one ever to score five goals, the most in a WWC Final.