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The dean of UC Irvine's School of Engineering said Wednesday that he doesn't understand why Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening ousted him from the post he has held for nearly a decade.
"What she said doesn't make sense to me," said William A. Sirignano, 55, who was told by Wilkening during a meeting last week that he was being forced out. "She said I was doing a fine job and that she wanted to keep the momentum (in the school) going. But she didn't want me to continue. In a certain sense, I was bewildered."
Sirignano is also a tenured engineering professor at UCI, so he can return to teaching after he steps...