Documents disclosed to the Associated Press suggest that the University of Wisconsin at Superior’s chancellor urged the Board of Regents to fire a tenured professor even though he had never reviewed the professor’s rebuttal of allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct.

The regents dismissed the professor, John B. Marder, after hearing the chancellor’s views in a closed-door meeting in 2001. Mr. Marder, a journalism professor, has fought his dismissal ever since. The documents obtained by the AP were transcripts of depositions by the chancellor, Julius E. Erlenbach, who was questioned by lawyers in response to a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling in 2005.

The court ordered proceedings to determine if the chancellor had given the regents new information about the case during the closed-door meeting — which would have violated Mr. Marder’s right to a fair hearing. Mr. Erlenbach’s acknowledgment that he had ignored Mr. Marder’s rebuttal could help the former professor to argue that he had been denied due process when the university stripped him of his tenure and his post.

A faculty panel criticized Mr. Marder for “harassing and disruptive behavior” toward colleagues and two students, but it did not say his conduct merited his dismissal. Faculty Senates in the Wisconsin system subsequently proposed resolutions condemning his firing. —Andrew Mytelka