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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 25, 2005
Contact: Suzanne Ernst
(702) 889-8426
Regents Committee Selects Two Finalists for Chancellor
LAS
VEGAS – A Nevada Board of Regents search committee today selected Robert L.
King and James E. Rogers as the finalists for the position of chancellor of
the state’s public higher education system.
The search committee, which was
chaired by Regent Bret Whipple, met this morning to review the applications
and resumes of seven candidates who were presented by the search consulting
firm Greenwood & Associates, Inc.
After a brief discussion of the
candidates, the regents’ committee voted to bring back the top two finalists
for interviews on Thursday, April 28.
Robert L. King has served the
past five years as chancellor of the State University System of New York.
That system is comprised of 64 campuses, including four major university centers,
24 colleges, five colleges of technology, two health science centers and 30
community colleges with an annual operating budget of nearly $8.5 billion.
SUNY educates 413,000 degree-seeking students and more than 1.1 million continuing
education enrollees.
Previously, King served as the
director of the New York State Division of the Budget from 1998 to 1999, and
as director of the Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform from 1995 to 1998.
He also served as an assemblyman in the New York State Legislature from 1987
to 1991.
King earned his juris
doctorate from Vanderbilt University
and a bachelor of arts from Trinity College
in Hartford, Conn.
James E. Rogers is currently serving
as the interim chancellor for the UCCSN and has held that post since May 2004.
He is a 1956 graduate of Las
Vegas High School. He has degrees in accounting (B.S.) and law (LL.B.) from
the University of Arizona
and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University
of Southern California. He was a teaching fellow
in the law school of the University of Illinois in 1963 and 1964. In
1998 he was awarded a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Arizona. Rogers holds honorary doctorates from
University of Arizona, Idaho State
University, Kentucky Wesleyan, Carroll College and University
of Nevada Las Vegas. He is also a member of the State
Bar Associations of Nevada, Arizona and California.
He was
the founder of Valley Broadcasting Company in 1971 when the company made application
to the Federal Communications Commission for its broadcast license and has
served as the company's chief executive officer since 1979 when KVBC-TV, the
NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, went on the air. Rogers
owns 98 percent of the stock of Sunbelt Communications Company, which owns
and operates the NBC affiliate television stations in Las
Vegas, Reno, Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada; Yuma, Arizona-El Centro, California; Helena, Montana; Pocatello-Idaho Falls, Idaho;
and Jackson, Wyoming; and the Fox
affiliate in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Rogers
was in active law practice in Las Vegas from 1964 through
1988, at which time he ceased practicing to devote 100 percent of his time
to the development of the television and radio stations of Sunbelt.
In addition
to Whipple, members of the Regents’ Chancellor Search committee include Dr.
Jill Derby, Douglas Roman Hill, Howard Rosenberg, Douglas Seastrand and Steve
Sisolak.
The Nevada Board of Regents is
the elected, 13-member governing body for the University and Community College
System of Nevada. Comprising two doctoral-granting universities, a state college,
four comprehensive community colleges and one environmental research institute,
the UCCSN serves the educational and job training needs of the nation’s fastest
growing state. As Nevada’s only
system of higher education, the UCCSN provides educational opportunities to
more than 100,000 students.
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