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Nevada State College (NSC) is a four-year public college located in Henderson, Nevada, and is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). The college opened on September 3, 2002, and its main campus is located on a site in the southern foothills of Henderson, Nevada. The college was founded as Nevada's first state college. Nevada State College has around 3,300 undergraduate students from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In terms of minority or underrepresented students at NSC, close to 20% of the student body is Hispanic/Latino, 11% is Black or African American, 10% is Asian, and 2% is Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. The college's average student age is 29, and 61% of its students attend part-time. The vast majority of Nevada State College's students are from Nevada.〔 Nevada State College's enrollment as a whole has grown from 177 students in 2002 to 3,389 in 2012 making it one of the fastest growing institutions of higher education in the country on a percentage basis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Almanac of Higher Education 2013 )〕 During this period, however, some of Nevada State College's programs suffered from lower than expected enrollments. However, enrollment for 2010 increased by 23.3% compared to the year before.〔Nevada State College Faces Possible Closures, CBS Channel 8 website. http://www.8newsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=12008480&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lasvegasnow%2Fiteam+%28LasVegasNow+-+I-Team+Reports%29 Accessed February 19, 2010.〕〔Review-Journal http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/budgets-shrinking-enrollments Accessed March 24, 2010.〕 Nevada State College's six-year graduation rate in 2010 was 21%, a roughly 10% increase from its 2008 six-year graduation rate.〔http://www.nevada.edu/ir/page.php?pid=grdrate〕 From 2004 to 2010, 1214 students have graduated from NSC, over 500 of them earning nursing degrees.〔Nevada State Braces for Budget Cuts, ''Review Journal''. http://www.reviewjournal.com/jane-ann-morrison/nevada-state-college-braces-budget-cuts-or-worse Accessed February 19, 2010.〕 Approximately 45% of Nevada State College's students are first-generation college students. An equivalent percentage are members of racial or ethnic minorities.〔Nevada State Braces for Budget Cuts, ''Review Journal''. http://www.reviewjournal.com/jane-ann-morrison/nevada-state-college-braces-budget-cuts-or-worse〕 Campus activities and organizations include student government and a student-run newspaper, ''The Scorpions Tale.'' Nevada State College does not currently have any varsity sports teams, but it offers a few club sports.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nevada State College: Student Organizations )〕 The school's colors are black and gold and its mascot is a scorpion. ==History== In 1999, the Nevada Legislature created the Advisory Committee to Examine Locating a 4-Year State College in Henderson, Nev. In December 1999, the Nevada Board of Regents approved the establishment of Nevada State College.〔 In February 2000, the committee recommended that the new institution be named Nevada State College at Henderson. The committee members determined that Henderson should be part of the official name as they felt additional state colleges would be created in the state in the future. Later that month, the Henderson City Council, after having evaluated several potential sites, voted to locate Nevada State College on a site northeast of Lake Mead Drive and Boulder Highway that was to be part of The LandWell Company’s Provenance master-planned community. In March, James Rogers, owner of several television stations who would later become chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, agreed to chair the college’s foundation. Opponents of the creation of Nevada State College feared at the time that its creation would take resources from UNLV. However, proponents of the college argued that the “proposed college would be up to $3,000 cheaper than educating them at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The savings would come from smaller salaries for professors, who would teach four classes (per semester), rather than the three or fewer taught by UNLV professors.”〔Patton, N. (2001, January 4). Report urges state to fund new college. Review-Journal, p. 8B.〕 In April 2000, the Board of Regents voted 8-3 to begin negotiations for the Boulder Highway / Lake Mead site despite some concerns that the site was located near a permanent toxic waste storage facility. The original site of the college, first proposed in 2000 and located on approximately 300 acres northeast of Lake Mead Drive and Boulder Highway near downtown Henderson raised environmental concerns as it was located approximately one mile from a toxic waste storage facility,〔()〕 which prompted the Nevada Board of Regents in 2001 to select the college's present day site〔(Miller, V. (2001, March 26). Proposed college gets a new home on old studio site. Las Vegas Business Press, p. 1. )〕 located west of U.S. Highway 95 in what was once the Wagon Wheel Industrial Park. 〔Whaley, S. (2000, April 7). Regents vote to negotiate for land. Donrey Capital Bureau, p. 1B.〕 In June 2000, the Regents requested $5.2 million for start-up costs for the campus and $7 million for instruction costs for its first cohort of students in 2002-03 as well as $43.5 million for capital construction which was to include a library.〔Vogel, E. (2000, June 24). Henderson funding irks some regents. Donrey Capital Bureau, p. 1B.〕 Nevada Gov. Guinn’s 2001-2003 executive budget, which was developed later in 2000, reduced the Regents' request by recommending "$22.8 million in state funding, 6.8 million to open it to 1,000 full-time students in the fall of 2002, and $16 million to help construct the first campus building.”〔Whaley, S. (2001, March 22). Lawmakers to hear pitch for college site. Donrey Capital Bureau, p. 1B.〕 Nevada State College opened in 2002. The college acquired accreditation, moved with its master plan for a campus, and its first permanent building, the Liberal Arts and Sciences building, opened in August 2008.〔http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8858497 Nevada State College Moves to New Building〕 In 2008 Nevada State College launched a campus-wide recruitment and retention initiative. Between the Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters, Nevada State College increased enrollment by over 20%, to over 2,600 students.〔Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/budgets-shrinking-enrollments Accessed March 24, 2010.〕 As of the end of spring 2008, Nevada State College has graduated 16% of the full-time students who registered as freshmen in fall 2002, and 11% of 2003's incoming freshmen. A graduation rate of 16% is one-third that of California’s public state colleges. School officials characterize the rate as low, and are launching programs to increase student retention. 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