LAS VEGAS (AP) - A donor says she is rescinding a $14 million donation made to UNLV after reports that there may be an effort to push the university’s president out of office.
KLAS-TV reports Kris Engelstad sent a letter to UNLV on Wednesday, stating the donation from the Engelstad Foundation - intended for the university’s medical school building on the condition that the president, Dr. Len Jessup, was in charge - would no longer happen.
Jessup, in a letter Wednesday to the campus community, says recent media reports about his “pending departure are misleading.” He says he is “proud to be president of UNLV.”
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KLAS-TV reports Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Thom Reilly had given Jessup an ultimatum to quit in a week or be fired.
Reilly refused to comment.
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Information from: KLAS-TV, http://www.klas-tv.com
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