Wisconsin Administrative Code
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Chapter UWS 4 - Procedures For Faculty Dismissal And For Dismissal And Discipline In Title IX Cases
Subchapter III - Procedures for Faculty Dismissal and Discipline in Title IX Cases
Section UWS 4.18 - Standing faculty committee and hearing examiner

(1) The chancellor of each university, in consultation with faculty representatives, shall adopt policies providing for the designation of a Title IX conduct hearing examiner. The chancellor shall select a hearing examiner pursuant to these policies to hear faculty dismissal and discipline cases. Additionally, the faculty of each university shall provide a standing hearing committee charged with hearing faculty dismissal and discipline cases. The chancellor shall appoint the presiding member of the hearing committee, who may be a hearing examiner. The university shall decide whether a hearing examiner or a hearing committee will hear the matter.

(2) The hearing committee or the hearing examiner described in sub. (1) shall conduct the hearing, make a verbatim record of the hearing, and transmit such record along with factual findings and decision to the chancellor. The hearing shall be held not later than 45 days after completion of the final investigative report except that this time limit may be extended by the hearing committee or the hearing examiner.