Truckee Meadows Community College

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The Board of Regents was established by the Nevada State Constitution in 1864 with the first Board created in 1865. The Board is responsible for the governance of the institutions comprising the Nevada System of Higher Education. Records consist of agendas, minutes, and materials submitted during Board meetings and used by the secretary of the Board to prepare the final minutes, including Nevada System of Higher Education budget reports.

Abstract Charles Greenhaw was a graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the late 1960s. He was an assistant professor of English in Arkansas, an English instructor at Elko Community College in 1970, and commuted to Owyhee to teach English to Native Americans. He was affiliated with the Elko community college until 1991. The collection consists of Greenhaw's unpublished manuscript about the history of community colleges in Nevada called People's...

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The Northern Nevada Art Exhibits and Shows Catalogs Collection is an artifical collection created by the Special Collections Department to document various art exhibits and shows that have taken place in northern Nevada.

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Originally founded in 1969 by the Nevada State Legislature as part of the Community College Division as Western Nevada Community College, the Truckee Meadows Community College became the fourth independent community college in the Nevada System of Higher Education in 1979. The Dandini Campus serves as the central hub for the college. The collection contains limited administrative materials related to TMCC from the 1980s.