The University of Colorado Board of Regents met in executive session on Thursday morning to discuss the initial results of an investigation into CU Regent Wanda James and CU Regent and Board Chair Callie Rennison.

The board initially planned to hold a public meeting at 9:15 a.m. Thursday for “discussion or action on matters covered in executive session” but did not end up doing so. According to the meeting agenda, the executive session began at 7:30 a.m.

“The regents met in executive session to receive legal advice and discuss preliminary results of the review into Regents Rennison and James,” CU Vice President for Communication Michele Ames wrote in an email. “No decisions regarding those reviews were made and no action was taken. Any action regarding the report would ultimately be taken in a noticed, public meeting per Regent rules and policy.”

Ames would not say why Rennison, who is also the chair of the board, is being investigated or what the concerns are.

Rennison is a professor emerita and former associate dean of faculty affairs at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. She’s also listed as a lecturer on the CU Denver website. CU regents are elected by the general public and are not paid to serve in the role, except for reimbursement for certain expenses.

The regents launched an independent investigation into James in March due to an alleged conflict of interest after James, a marijuana dispensary owner, pushed to cut state funding from a CU campaign that provides education on the risks of high-potency marijuana. James raised concerns about what she said were racially insensitive images used in an educational campaign called “The Tea on THC,” produced by the Colorado School of Public Health at CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

In April, the regents posted a statement announcing that Rennison would also be investigated in the review.

“After (the investigation into James) was referred to outside counsel, concerns about Chair Rennison in her role as a Regent were forwarded to the Board,” the regents posted in an online statement on April 1. “Given that the independent review already concerns regent conduct, we have asked that these separate concerns about Chair Rennison also be referred and included in the independent review.

“As we have stated previously, all Regents have important fiduciary and legal obligations to the University, and as a self-governing body, it is incumbent on all of us to ensure we honor these obligations.”

The CU Board of Regents is an elected board that oversees the CU System and all its campuses.