The University of Utah’s board of trustees had a conversation behind closed doors Friday about “the competence” of the school’s administrators and its police department after a student was shot and killed on campus this week, said H. David Burton, the board’s chairman.
“Certainly, it bears on the competence of everyone,” Burton told The Salt Lake Tribune after the 90-minute closed meeting ended. “What we need to do, if anything, is continue to enhance the safekeeping of the university.”
The school and its police force have come under fire for how they handled complaints of extortion reported by university student and track athlete Lauren McCluskey in the weeks before her death.