his named successor, Robert Felner, was asked to resign in Summer 2008 before he had taken over the position, as he was involved in a federal criminal investigation into possible misuse of funds, related to his time as dean of the University of Louisville's College of Education and Human Development. The investigation included an FBI raid at UW–Parkside of the papers Felner was storing there in preparation for his new job. Lane R. Earns became UW–Parkside's Interim Chancellor on August 25, 2008, and Deborah Ford became the university's sixth chancellor on August 1, 2009.
=== List of chancellors ===
The university has had six chancellors: Irvin G. Wyllie (1966–74), Alan Guskin (1975–85), Sheila Kaplan (1986–93), Eleanor J. Smith (1994–97), John P. Keating (1998–2008), and Deborah L. Ford (2009–2023)
== Campus ==
UW–Parkside is a complex of buildings with the main academic buildings and its student center connected by skyways, where one walkway, that between the Student Center and Molinaro Hall, is nicknamed …
