Help me understand this!

Is this government run amok or is there a resonable explanation for this situation?

The University of Wisconsin has fired a professor from Florida who mysteriously failed to show up to teach at UW-Eau Claire last fall, according to documents made public Tuesday.

The UW System Board of Regents voted during a closed meeting last week to fire Philip Siegel. A copy of its six-page decision was released Tuesday.

D’Arcy Becker, chair of the accounting and finance department, said Siegel never showed up two weeks before classes for meetings as required in his contract and never explained why.

UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich moved to fire Siegel in September. The process of firing a professor is a lengthy one, and the final step was last week’s action by the regents. Siegel was never paid by the UW.

It took FIVE MONTHS to fire a professor who never showed up for work!

FIVE MONTHS!!!

Can anyone help me make sense of this?

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