The Journal Times: UW System to review UW-Parkside chancellor search
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:12 PM CDT
MADISON — University of Wisconsin system officials will review the process used to recruit and screen candidates for the UW-Parkside chancellor, following the resignation of Robert Felner, system President Kevin Reilly announced today.
Findings from that review will be used to improve future searches, including those at UW-Green Bay and UW-River Falls.
“We’re certainly cooperating in any way that we can with the UW system,” said Dave Buchanan, a spokesman for Parkside. “I’m sure there will be a new set of guidelines. I don’t think we’re going to reinvent the wheel. The process has worked at other campuses. It didn’t work here unfortunately.”
Felner informed UW system leaders on Sunday, June 22, of an investigation at the University of Louisville that involved the College of Education and Human Development, where he served as dean.
On Monday, June 23, UW system officials learned that federal agents had visited UW-Parkside on Friday, June 20 to examine papers belonging to Felner.
Within two days of the first notification, UW System requested and obtained Felner’s resignation in advance of his first day of employment in Wisconsin.
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