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The board that governs Nevada's higher education system on Friday rejected the possibility of shutting campuses to close the enormous budget gap the system faces over the next two years, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Governor Brian Sandoval has proposed a nearly 30 percent cut in the budget for the Nevada System of Higher Education by 2013, and presidents of the system's campuses have laid out plans that would eliminate scores of academic programs and many hundreds of jobs, cut salaries and sharply increase student tuition and fees. But by an 8 to 5 vote, regents dismissed the alternative of closing campuses, amid opposition to the idea from students, college officials and local business leaders.
