Appointment of new chancellor for Nevada colleges to be discussed

After the contentious resignation of its final chancellor, the Nevada System of Larger Training Board of Regents will take into account appointing a former state superintendent of public instruction to the position.

Board members are set to vote subsequent week on whether or not Dale Erquiaga, who served as Nevada’s superintendent from 2013 to 2015 and now heads a state analysis and coverage assume tank, will function the system’s appearing or interim chancellor, in line with a gathering agenda posted Wednesday.

Erquiaga served because the chief technique officer to then-Gov. Brian Sandoval, who’s now president of the College of Nevada, Reno.

The advice to nominate Erquiaga as chancellor comes after the board voted to approve Chancellor Melody Rose’s resignation and pay her $610,000 in severance in April. Rose’s departure made her the third chancellor to depart the upper training system in 5 years, capping off months of stress the place she alleged a hostile work setting.

Prior to creating the advice to nominate Erquiaga, board Chair Cathy McAdoo met with the most important constituencies of the system, together with college presidents and college senate chairs, to assemble enter on the appointment of a brand new chancellor, in line with the assembly agenda.

McAdoo is predicted to offer an summary of these conferences and the enter when the regents meet on June 10 to debate Erquiaga’s appointment.

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