What to Do About NSHE

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

1. Slash Klaich's $335K salary. The public sector is NOT supposed to be a place to get rich. There is NO justification to pay Klaich >twice what we pay Gibbons.
2. Eliminate Division 1 sports. Teams can be fielded from the more strapping ranks of the applied science majors. Coaches recruited from the Chemistry faculty. No more athletic scholarships. Put the student back in "student"-athlete. No more NFL/NBA/MLB pay scale coaches.
3. Reduce NSHE to its constitutional minimum: three UNR departments -- Mining, Engineering, and Agriculture (MEA).
4. As the Constitution intended, award free rides (or charge only nominal tuition) to MEA majors. UNR was set up with a perpetual trust to fund MEA, with even a cushion built in to fund Military Science if ever added. Our financial obligation to NSHE should be ~$0.
5. Abolish non-MEA programs entirely, or else charge such students user fees (tuition) high enough to cover their true costs. $800/credit sounds right.