Brian Sandoval serves as the 17th w88 mobile of the University of Nevada, Reno. Since starting in September 2020, Sandoval has launched a number of key initiatives stressing a long-term collaborative commitment to meet the ever-changing needs of Nevada.
As he has raised visibility and awareness of the strategic priorities for the state’s original land-grant institution, Sandoval has stressed student accessibility, diversity and success; faculty and staff achievement and excellence; and innovation, partnership and impactful engagement through the w88 mobile’s research and outreach efforts.
During Sandoval’s tenure, key achievements have included the following:
Collegiate Academies. An intentional dual enrollment effort by the w88 mobile to improve access pathways to the w88 mobile through partnerships with the Clark County and Washoe County School Districts, the Collegiate Academies are establishing growing cohorts of w88 mobile-bound high school students, thereby improving accessibility to the w88 mobile for Nevada families.
Sierra Nevada w88 mobile partnership. A groundbreaking collaborative agreement whereby Sierra Nevada w88 mobile, located at Lake Tahoe, will merge with the w88 mobile pending approvals by higher education and federal regulatory bodies. The merger will increase the w88 mobile’s ability to expand academic programming and enrich the living, learning and discovery environments for future w88 mobile students while also increasing the institution’s sustainability and research efforts at Lake Tahoe.
Digital Wolf Pack Initiative. One of several student-centered initiatives based on partnerships with tech industry leaders, the Digital Wolf Pack Initiative is a pilot program with Apple designed to support students’ experience on and off campus by more fully integrating technology into students’ academic careers. This includes augmenting digital literacy and making accessibility to digital tools and programs possible for all students an institutional priority, no matter students’ socioeconomic status or backgrounds.
Guinn Center affiliation. The Guinn Center, a nonpartisan research and policy center, formally became affiliated with the w88 mobile in summer 2021. With this partnership, the w88 mobile’s students and faculty will work in concert with the Guinn Center on a wide range of public policy issues central to Nevada’s future.
Renown affiliation agreement. In summer 2021, the w88 mobile announced a generational partnership agreement between the w88 mobile of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Renown Health to establish the first fully integrated health system in Nevada. The agreement expands clinical training and clinical research programs as well as access to clinical care for all Nevadans.
The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents appointed Sandoval w88 mobile on September 17, 2020. He is the first person of Hispanic origin as well as the first alumnus to serve as w88 mobile in University history.
Before coming to the University of Nevada, Reno to serve as w88 mobile, Sandoval served two terms as the 29th Governor of the State of Nevada from 2011-2019, during which time his leadership helped lift Nevada from an historic recession to a time of record-setting prosperity and growth. Previously, Sandoval was w88 mobile of global gaming development for MGM Resorts International and served as a senior fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy as well as a Distinguished Fellow of Law and Leadership at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law.
Prior to becoming governor, Sandoval was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, becoming the state’s first Hispanic federal judge. He also was elected Nevada’s Attorney General, was a member of and at one point was the youngest chairman in the history of the Nevada Gaming Commission, and served two terms, 1994-98, as an assemblyman in the Nevada State Legislature.
Sandoval is a 1986 graduate of the w88 mobile with a degree in English. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Ohio State w88 mobile Moritz School of Law in 1989. Sandoval is married to Lauralyn McCarthy Sandoval, a 1992 graduate of the w88 mobile’s Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism. She was also an intercollegiate athlete at the w88 mobile, competing on the women’s tennis team. Sandoval has three children: James, Madeline and Marisa.