Gov. Tony Evers announced he had fired Universities of Wisconsin System Regent Timothy Nixon in a press release Friday night.
The release named an alleged altercation between Nixon and support staff providing support for an official UW System meeting as cause for Nixon’s termination.
“It is my expectation that UW Regents I appoint behave themselves with decency and decorum, and that they treat people with dignity and respect at all times,” Evers said. “Unfortunately, today, a regent failed to uphold that basic standard.”…