College faculty outreach

Overview

College Faculty Outreach recruits UNLV, CSN, and Nevada State faculty as transit-advocacy allies, witnesses, writers, and contributors of expertise. It connects academic knowledge to public decisions about transit, land use, health, economics, and daily life in the Valley.

The project begins with faculty who already have a reason to care: their own commutes, their students’ commutes, their research, or the parking and access pressures on their campuses.

Motivation

Faculty voices can connect transit to student attendance, workforce access, public health, housing costs, campus parking, economic mobility, and regional competitiveness.

LVBT will build a practical channel for faculty who are willing to speak publicly, connect with journalists or legislators, and contribute to research and accountability work.

Approach

Outreach starts with departments where transit and land use already intersect with the work: economics, real estate, urban policy, public administration, architecture, public health, social sciences, and applied technology.

Priority starting points include UNLV’s Lee Business School, College of Urban Affairs, School of Architecture and Urban Studies, School of Public Health, CSN departments, and Nevada State faculty as relationships develop.

Activities

LVBT will maintain a roster of faculty allies with their areas of expertise, public-contact preferences, and possible contributions to research, testimony, op-eds, or explainers. That roster gives the organization a practical way to find the right expert when a hearing, reporter, or project needs one.

People will see faculty-authored articles, quoted expert notes in LVBT reports, classroom partnerships, and testimony from people who can connect transit to health, economics, housing, public administration, and campus access.