After a stalled search, a new interim chancellor will soon emerge. When they do — will they be what the regents are looking for? 

After years of fits and starts, three university presidents, two medical school deans, two governors and one pandemic, last Wednesday marked the end of a long and tortured road — the red ribbon was cut, and the Kirk Kerkorian Medical Education Building at UNLV was finally complete.

The Board of Regents is set to vote on the appointment of former State Superintendent Dale Erquiaga as acting chancellor next week, according to an agenda posted online Wednesday. 

The announcement came by way of a public meeting agenda posted late Monday afternoon that includes details of a possible resignation agreement to buyout roughly half of Rose’s remaining contract, or $610,000. 

As one Nevada college sought to fire a professor after he criticized a new remediation program, questions arose about the faculty discipline process and academic freedom itself.

Three weeks after the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education leveled serious allegations against the top two members of the Board of Regents, little has changed. 

Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Melody Rose accused Board of Regents leaders of persistent hostility and undermining her ability to do the job in a hostile work environment complaint filed Monday, a stunning split between the system’s chief administrator and the governing board that hired her. 

Question 1, a push to pull the Board of Regents out of the state Constitution, was backed by a substantial amount of campaign money, a diverse coalition and had no organized opposition. Why did it fail?

Two months into the fall semester, many students say they’re still frustrated by a higher education experience that has consistently delivered less amid COVID-19 restrictions, even while charging as much or, in some cases, more.

Nevadans for a Higher Quality Education, a pro-Question 1 super PAC with ties to the business community, reported raising $470,500 in the third quarter, setting the stage for a final campaign push to pass a ballot measure that would remove the Board of Regents from the state Constitution.

The Indy breaks down arguments for and against Question 1, a constitutional amendment that seeks to take the Board of Regents out of the state Constitution.

Sweeping changes to federal rules governing the investigation of sexual misconduct on college campuses finally took effect Friday. Sprawled across more than 2,000 pages of legal guidance, the changes cap a years-long regulatory march by the Education Department under Secretary Betsy DeVos toward reversing Obama-era rules governing such investigations.

As the economic and public health consequences of the coronavirus pandemic continue to ripple, several regents on Thursday excoriated millions in legislatively approved budget cuts, charging that legislators left them few options with just weeks before the state’s seven colleges and universities plan on reopening their campuses for limited in-person instruction.

The Nevada Board of Regents unanimously approved the appointment of Keith Whitfield as UNLV’s newest president at a special meeting Thursday, providing a replacement for interim President Marta Meana and ending the two-year vacancy triggered by the sudden departure of former President Len Jessup in 2018.

With just weeks to go before the start of the fall semester, colleges and universities are grappling with a singular question: How close can they come to bringing operations back to “normal?"

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials backed away from a controversial rule that would have blocked international students from staying in the U.S. if their colleges went online-only amid the pandemic, telling a federal judge Tuesday that it would “return to the status quo.”

The proposed cuts play out like a reversal of the past three sessions, when a state recovering from the recession added and expanded a long list of “categorical” programs meant to provide extra support to students with extra needs.

The Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday to appoint Melody Rose as the higher education system’s newest chancellor, ending a year-long search to find a replacement for Thom Reilly.

Amid the most drastic hit to state revenues since the Great Recession, the Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to inject a one-time $50 million rainy-day payment into the budget for fiscal year 2021. The money will add to a wide-ranging slate of budget cuts meant to cover an additional 5 percent cut requested by the governor's office early this month.

A search for a new chancellor to head the Nevada System of Higher Education drew one step closer to completion with the announcement of four finalists Tuesday, signaling a rapidly approaching end to the year-plus search to replace outgoing Chancellor Thom Reilly.