Chancellor Melody Rose spoke with The Nevada Independent regarding higher education and challenges in the State of Nevada. 

“We have experienced major economic setbacks… We're going through a racial reckoning that is long overdue. And we're facing environmental catastrophe as a world, and so there are no shortages of challenges,” Rose said at an IndyTalks event hosted by The Nevada Independent on Monday. “I tend to be the person who runs into the burning building and with purpose, not with recklessness, because I believe as a first-generation college student, that there is no higher purpose for me than serving those 107,000 students and opening doors for them.”

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