CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada higher education board members aren't taking any disciplinary action against the college system's leader over how he handled an outside consultant's report.
Nevada System of Higher Education regents voted Thursday to accept the conclusions of a hired investigator, who concluded Chancellor Dan Klaich didn't violate any ethical standards.
Klaich was accused of inappropriately whitewashing a consultant's draft report that was critical of Nevada's community college system. The controversy was first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The board hired labor attorney Stephen Hirschfield to investigate. He concluded that Klaich did not improperly pressure report authors to change their work, and that the edited final draft maintained the same recommendations as the first.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. Harry Reid both sent letters to regents defending Klaich's work and character.
