Makes you wonder though. If this were really about the agenda item, compensation for the president or whatever it was, would they have gone dark? So we at least know that they are discussing it and it may just be Arizona informing ASU of their intentions formally. Perhaps we even see resolution tonight or a request to join.
In Iowa, there are a ton of allowable reasons for a closed session in a BOR (public) meeting -- including performance evals of the university presidents and the executive director.