Chicago Tribune: UW System to review botched UW-Parkside search
MADISON, Wis. – Insufficient reference checks and a compressed timeline may have hampered the process used to search for a new University of Wisconsin-Parkside chancellor, officials said Tuesday.
University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner was supposed to start leading UW-Parkside in Kenosha on Tuesday. He resigned the job last month after his lawyer disclosed he is at the center of a federal investigation into whether $500,000 in grant money was mishandled.
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UW System officials said they received no information warning that Felner could be under investigation during the five weeks between when he was named a finalist in late April and was hired in early June.
Their first hint came when federal agents showed up at UW-Parkside on June 20 to review documents that Felner had shipped to the campus, Giroux said. News of that visit was not passed on to Reilly until June 23, a day after Felner informed him about the investigation. Reilly accepted Felner’s resignation on June 24.
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