Personnel Matters Private for University Leaders? Not in Nevada

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—unless you’re the president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. In a daylong meeting broadcast online last week, David B. Ashley, the president, was repeatedly grilled, and then publicly demoted, during a contentious gathering of the university system’s Board of Regents.

The shakedown followed months of public disputes over the conduct of Mr. Ashley’s wife and heated exchanges between him and the university system’s former

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