"UNLV is eliminating University College, established four years ago to help increase student retention," the Review Journal reports. "The college serves those who have not picked a specific major and those majoring in university studies, a degree that allows students to design a degree around specific career goals or academic interests. Officials said the move is not related to the current budget crisis and is more of a reclassification than an elimination. Current students will be able to finish their degrees, but University College will no longer accept new students, said Neal Smatresk, provost and executive vice president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Current students will be shifted to the College of Liberal Arts. "We have accepted our last university studies major," he said. Smatresk said there are several hundred university studies majors. The Academic Success Center, planned to open as part of University College, will open as a separate entity, he said. The success center is designed to help struggling students."