A longtime UNLV professor and administrator has become the university's acting president.

Nevada's Board of Regents voted Monday in favor of making the dean of UNLV's Honors College the acting university president.

Marta Meana, dean of UNLV’s Honors College, will take over July 1 as the university’s acting president while officials search for a permanent replacement for the departing Len Jessup.

Those who know UNLV’s new acting president say she’s a “healer” — an accomplished educational leader who can build relationships and bridge silos in good times and bad.

Nevada's Board of Regents voted Monday in favor of making the dean of UNLV's Honors College the acting university president.

The dean of UNLV’s Honors College could soon become the acting president of the university.

Anywhere but Nevada, Donald McMichael Sr.’s chances of becoming a member of a state board of regents would be practically nonexistent.

At last Tuesday’s meeting of the UNLV Foundation, members were told that Chancellor Thom Reilly was encouraging them to speak with him about the future of the university.

A leader to the end.

UNLV President Len Jessup was not acting in his own interests when he signed an agreement making a major gift to the university contingent on him being retained as president, a UNLV Foundation executive said today.

During a meeting Monday with UNLV students and faculty members, Nevada Chancellor Thom Reilly and two members of the state Board of Regents faced questions about why President Len Jessup was pressured out of the university and how they would go about replacing him.

As someone who has lived and worked in both Las Vegas and Reno, is a graduate of UNR and is now a student at the UNLV School of Medicine, Sierra Kreamer-Hope has experienced the state’s north-south political tensions from both regions.