The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday fired a former UW-Parkside assistant professor who filed a race discrimination lawsuit against the university last summer.
Ogbonnaya “Oko” Elechi lost his job because he stopped showing up for class, not because he filed the lawsuit, according to university officials. Elechi took a job at Prairie View A&M University in Texas without telling Parkside he was leaving, said Lenny Klaver, UW-Parkside vice chancellor.