Firing a chancellor can be executed swiftly. In the case of former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow, it took just eight days from the time the UW System said it learned of his appearance in porn videos to the closed-door meeting when the UW Board of Regents ousted him as chancellor.
Firing a professor is much more laborious. Even so, the UW System is investigating whether to revoke Gow’s tenured faculty status as a communications professor, a position he announced in August he planned to return to next school year.