Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 34–Senators Titus, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Raggio, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Townsend, Washington and Wiener

 

Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Goldwater, Gustavson, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Oceguera, Ohrenschall, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams

 

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Senate Concurrent RESOLUTION—Honoring the University Studies Abroad Consortium within the University and Community College System of Nevada.

 

   Whereas, The University Studies Abroad Consortium was established

 in 1982 by Drs. Joseph N. Crowley and William A. Douglass of the

 University of Nevada, Reno, and by Drs. John Barnes and Pat Bieter of

 Boise State University; and

   Whereas, The physical resources and the academic context for the

 Consortium were provided by the University of the Basque Country in

 Spain; and

   Whereas, The mission of the Consortium was to create an academic

 program for university students from America abroad in the Basque

 Country; and

   Whereas, The University of Nevada, Reno, with its Basque Studies

 Program, Boise State University, with its Basque population, and the

 University of the Basque Country were logical participants in such an

 enterprise; and

   Whereas, In the fall of 1983, the first academic program was launched

 with a group of 28 students in San Sebastian, Spain; and

   Whereas, In 1985, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joined the

 Consortium which has been growing ever since; and

   Whereas, Today there are 22 universities participating in the

 Consortium that send, each year, approximately 1,700 students to 23

 program sites in 17 countries while employing more than 110 faculty

 members and staff from around the world; and

   Whereas, The Consortium provides opportunities for faculty members

 by offering professors the chance to teach abroad and make professional

 contacts with their counterparts at foreign host universities; and

   Whereas, During the 18 years the Consortium has been in existence,

 62 professors from the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of

 Nevada, Las Vegas, have taught courses in the academic program; and

   Whereas, Perhaps the most important aspects of this program are the

 academic, cultural and social opportunities provided to the participating

 students; and

   Whereas, While studying and living abroad, students expand their

 cultural horizons, gain valuable knowledge and a more accurate insight

 into world affairs, learn foreign languages and participate in internships;

 and

   Whereas, The University of Nevada, Reno, continues to assume the

role as the Consortium’s lead university and, as its primary trustee,

 processes contracts for both faculty members and employees, monitors

 funding for the Consortium and manages the Consortium’s overall

 operations; and

   Whereas, To the credit of both the University of Nevada, Reno, and

 the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the courses which are offered to

 students who participate in the Consortium’s academic program have been

 developed to reflect accurately those of the University and Community

 College System of Nevada; and

   Whereas, These courses extend and enhance the curriculum of the

 University and Community College System of Nevada and include courses

 in foreign languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, German, Basque,

 Thai, Chinese, Czech and Hebrew, traditional courses such as political

 science, history, education, anthropology, international business and

 economics, literature and ecology, and such exotic courses as aeronautical

 engineering, marine geoscience and laser physics; and

   Whereas, The University Studies Abroad Consortium adds a valuable

 dimension to international relations as well as to the University and

 Community College System of Nevada; now, therefore, be it

   Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, the Assembly

 Concurring, That the members of the 71st session of the Nevada

 Legislature hereby honor the University Studies Abroad Consortium

 within the University and Community College System of Nevada as an

 organization that has provided and continues to provide many professors

 who are employed in the System with an invaluable opportunity to teach

 abroad and hundreds of students being educated in the State of Nevada

 with a unique opportunity to study abroad, thereby providing these college

 students with the skills, knowledge and worldly experience necessary to

 participate successfully in the world of the future; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy

 of this resolution to Dr. Carmelo Urza, Director, University Studies

 Abroad Consortium, University of Nevada, Reno.

 

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