Las Vegas Sun: Five days that rocked higher education system
University system Regent James Dean Leavitt says he thought his phone call last Wednesday was innocent enough, putting a few basic questions to Jim Rogers, the businessman-turned-chancellor of Nevada’s system of higher education.
Leavitt, one of 13 regents, wanted to ask Rogers about the person he had just hired to lobby for his pet project, an academic health science system.
Rogers exploded, according to both men. He felt his integrity was being challenged – and a battle was joined.