Regents approve new fee to help fund UNLV student newspaper

A new student fee has been approved that will fund the student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The Nevada Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s colleges and universities, approved a 20-cent per credit fee after hearing from several students and current staffers of The Scarlet & Gray Free Press about the importance of their newsroom.

The student newspaper was founded nearly 70 years ago and has faced financial insecurity over the last few years after advertising dropped off and funds from the university and other benefactors diminished, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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