Criticized official halts his donation

The chancellor of the state’s higher education system says he and his family will no longer consider donating $3 million to one of its schools after negative comments in his job evaluation.

Jim Rogers said he had talked to Milton Glick, president of University of Nevada, Reno, this summer about making the donation to help build a math and science center, but the talks ended after a regent questioned his integrity.

“Nobody is going to call me a crook. . . . So we are not going forward with talks about this donation,” Rogers said, adding that his wife and other family members were “absolutely outraged” by the comments.

In his June 22 written evaluation, regent Ron Knecht wrote that Rogers’ claims of being “totally honest and known for his integrity” were false, and that “he is known primarily as a self-absorbed, self-indulgent bully and tyrant, given to rashly going off at little or no provocation.”