Nevada Governor Cuts Off Discourse With Chancellor After ‘Personal Attacks’

by E Wayne Ross on February 24, 2009

The Chronicle News Blog: Nevada Governor Cuts Off Discourse With Chancellor After ‘Personal Attacks’

Tense relations between Nevada’s higher-education chancellor, James E. Rogers, and the state’s Republican governor, James Gibbons, may have reached the breaking point. After the outspoken chancellor sharply criticized Mr. Gibbons in a newspaper commentary published on Sunday, Governor Gibbons announced today that he would no longer deal directly with Mr. Rogers. Instead, he asked the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education to appoint a liaison who could work with his office and the legislature “in a professional and courteous manner.”