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The responsibilities of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents include overseeing the system’s sizable budget, setting tuition prices, and hiring a chancellor and school presidents.
Currently, the board consists of 13 elected nonpartisan regents serving six-year terms. However, state lawmakers passed a bill last year that will reduce the number of regents to nine and shorten the length of their terms to four years, effective after the 2028 general election. That means any regents elected this year will only serve four years before they’ll need to run again in 2028.
Regents oversee four community colleges, two universities, one research institute, and one state college that all operate on an annual state budget of more than $2 billion.
This year, Clark County voters will have the chance to vote for a new regent in the Board of Regents District 1. However, only one of the two candidates vying for the position has a visible campaign: Executive Director of The American Institute of Architects and former lobbyist for the Vegas Chamber Carlos Fernandez.