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Greenspun College of Urban Affairs News

The Greenspun College of Urban Affairs is committed to creating contemporary solutions for resilient communities. Our academic programs focus on making effective public policy, creating support structures to meet behavioral and mental health challenges, ensuring cities are safe and prepared to meet emergency situations, effective and ethical journalism, and interpersonal and public communication strategies.

Current Urban Affairs News

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Campus News |

Students stepped out of the classroom and into the heart of lawmaking at Nevada鈥檚 83rd Legislative Session.

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Campus News |

Students illustrate the invisible factors that define our status quo, one game at a time.

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Business and Community |

New report by 黑料网 MGM Public Policy Institute examines a high school Career and Technical Education program to increase job placement in hospitality sector.

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Research |

Arthur Soto-V谩squez, journalism and media studies professor, offers tips on media literacy.

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Campus News |

President Chris Heavey recognizes 10 students for their staunch commitment to academic excellence and service to the community.

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Urban Affairs In The News

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You don't want your teen to 鈥淔AFO.鈥 Or ... maybe you do, so they learn the consequences of their actions.

Las Vegas Review Journal

When Manuel Ruiz and Rodney Finley encountered each other on the Strip the night of June 8, their digital worlds collided with reality.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Protests against federal immigration enforcement have ramped up across the country. In Nevada, the state faces a debate over immigration enforcement in schools.

The New Yorker

How our ideas about point of view got all turned around.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Social media is reshaping political discourse, particularly in how the White House communicates about immigration, according to Arthur Soto-Vasquez, a professor of ethics and equity studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

WalletHub

The median yearly income in the U.S. is approximately $81,000, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve. However, income inequality remains a pressing issue, with some individuals earning significantly more while others continue to face financial hardship.

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Recent Urban Affairs Accomplishments

Aya Shata's JOUR 433 IMC Competition class students (Journalism and Media Studies) at 黑料网 earned a Gold ADDY Award at the 2025 American Advertising Federation Awards. The 2024 student team was recognized for their campaign titled 鈥淩ide the Cold Wave,鈥  a comprehensive, multi-touchpoint IMC campaign for a real-world client,鈥
Alexandra Nur and Amber Krushas (Criminal Justice) published an article titled, "Outside in: The role of visitation on within-prison and post-release behavior," in the Journal of Criminal Justice. The article explores whether patterns of visits received in prison are related to misconduct while incarcerated and parole violation once released鈥
Camila Salgado (Political Science), a Hixson-Lied Scholar, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Spain for the 2025-2026 academic year. Sponsored by the U.S.-Spain Fulbright Commission and the Gobierno de Canarias, Salgado will live and work in the Canary Islands, assisting in English language classrooms and supporting鈥
Steven Pace (Criminal Justice) was a guest on the NPR radio show, "All Things Considered," hosted by Lakshmi Singh. Pace proved analysis concerning the arrest of Luigi Mangione in December 2024. 
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), together with Ariann Chelli (Desert Hope Treatment Center in Las Vegas) and Maureen Strohm (HCA Sunrise Health GME Consortium at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas) wrote an article, "Connecting Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorder to Community Continuing Coordinated Care: The Critical Role of Hospital鈥
Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies) and Anne Marie Borsai Basaran from the University of Connecticut have published an article titled, "Societal perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Strategic communicative action in problem solving" in Journal of Communication Management. The study seeks to understand the strategic communicative鈥