Editor’s note: As he traditionally does around this time every year, Brian Greenspun is turning over his Where I Stand column to others. Today’s guest is Chris Heavey, interim president of UNLV.

Monday, UNLV will welcome more than 8,000 new students — and a record 33,000-plus overall — to what I often describe as the greatest accelerator of human potential ever developed: an access-oriented, urban-serving Carnegie R1 research university.

R1 universities represent the highest tier of research universities in the United States, and UNLV proudly holds this distinction — right in the urban core of our city. As a university committed to access, we serve a highly diverse student body and maintain one of the lowest tuition rates in the country, about $10,000 per year. Most of our students come

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