Wisconsin: Rush ruined executive searches

by E Wayne Ross on July 7, 2008

The Journal Times: Rush ruined executive searches

What are we to make of the recent recruiting problems in southeastern Wisconsin? The obvious lesson is that people weren’t doing what they ought. Fortunately there are easy solutions.

Until the U.S. attorney in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago announced a criminal probe, no one would have found a solid problem with Robert Felner, former chancellor-apparent for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Yet there were apparently clues to disenchantment with him which the local search committee knew of but didn’t think enough of to pass on to people at the UW System in Madison, clues which a system spokesman said would have been useful at least for further investigation.