The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point wound up with a traffic citation when she visited Madison to hear Gov. Jim Doyle speak last month.
A police report said Chancellor Linda Bunnell hit a parked SUV and left the scene without telling anyone.
She released a statement Thursday saying that when the incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 17, she was in a hurry to get to Doyle’s budget address and planned to follow up with police and her insurance company later that evening.
Meanwhile, a witness called police with her car’s license number, and an officer found the car and left a note.