From Inside Higher Ed: Republicans are fuming over the decision to oust the system president. One Democrat countered that “we need to stop partisan finger-pointing.” Republicans in Wisconsin want answers and are vowing to retaliate after the Universities of Wisconsin system Board of Regents fired President Jay Rothman [last] Tuesday night with no public explanation.
Accusing the regents of blatant partisanship, Republicans in the State Legislature are planning to hold a hearing on the firing and to vote against 10 board appointees who have been nominated and are already serving on the board but haven’t been confirmed. The Senate’s GOP-controlled Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges, which is holding the hearing, can’t stop the nominations on its own, but the mounting threats may set up a showdown over who serves on the board if the full Republican-majority Legislature takes up the fight.
Rothman, who has led the 25-campus system for almost four years, has said he doesn’t know why he was fired and defended his tenure. In a series of letters made public last week, he accused the board of trying to push him out without explanation...
“I think that the notion that he is unaware of the problems and challenges and people’s concerns is bullshit. He absolutely is aware. He absolutely has been informed by the regents in many different conversations,” [a] source said. “And it’s not just the regents who are the ones who have concerns. They are responsible for managing over a dozen campuses, and many of the chancellors on those campuses also had concerns and complaints about his leadership, and he is very much aware of that.” ...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2026/04/08/rothman-firing-divides-wisconsin-lawmakers.
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