Longtime Las Vegas businessman Kenny Guinn is currently serving as interim UNLV president, replacing former president Robert C. Maxson, who left UNLV after 10 years to assume the presidency of California State University, Long Beach.
Currently chairman of the boards and formerly president of both Southwest Gas Corp. and PriMerit Bank of Nevada, Guinn served as superintendent of the Clark County School District from 1969 to 1978.
Guinn, who received his bachelor's and master's degrees in physical education from California State University, Fresno, and his Ed.D. in educational administration from Utah State University, served as chairman of the UNLV Foundation during the 1993-94 academic year.
His other education-related activities include membership on the Clark County Community College Advisory Committee, the Clark County School District School Community Partnership Advisory Board, the White House Conference on Children and Youth, and the Nevada School Superintendents Association.
Guinn has also been active in numerous civic groups, including the Nevada Development Authority, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way of Southern Nevada.
He is expected to continue as interim president of UNLV through the 1995 Nevada Legislature, assisting the university in obtaining additional state funding.
In another interim appointment, the former dean of UNLV's College of Business and Economics has assumed the post of vice president for finance and administration at the university.
Norval Pohl, who has served as dean of the business and economics college since 1986, has replaced Buster Neel, who accepted a vice presidency at Boise State University in Idaho.
Pohl came to UNLV from Northern Arizona University, where he was dean of the College of Business Administration. During his tenure as dean of UNLV's College of Business and Economics, the college received national accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.
A new dean of UNLV's College of Human Performance and Development was also appointed recently. Carol Ann Peterson, an interim dean from Virginia Commonwealth University, accepted the dean's post in July, replacing interim dean Anthony Saville.
Peterson, who had been at the Richmond, Va., university since 1988, served there as interim dean of the School of Community and Public Affairs.
Before becoming an interim dean at Virginia Commonwealth University, Peterson served as chair and professor of the university's department of recreation, parks, and tourism.