UW chancellor search heats up
Public receptions, interviews with candidates set for this week
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly last week announced the four finalists being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison.
But the preliminaries are over.
Now is when the process to name John Wiley's successor truly begins to heat up.
Starting Monday and running through Thursday, each of the finalists to become the next leader of Wisconsin's flagship university -- with 40,000 students, 16,000 employees and an annual operating budget of $2.2 billion -- will interact with faculty, academic staff, students and community members.
Public receptions will be held for all four candidates from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Memorial Union.
The reception schedule includes:
Monday: Gary Sandefur, dean of UW-Madison's College of Letters and Science since 2004. Sandefur has held a wide range of positions at the UW since 1984.
Tuesday: Carolyn Martin, provost at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., who was a UW-Madison lecturer in the early 1980s and earned her Ph.D. from the school in 1985 in German literature.
Wednesday: Tim Mulcahy, who has been vice president for research at the University of Minnesota since February 2005. Mulcahy spent 20 years at UW-Madison, including as associate vice chancellor for research policy from 2002 to 2005.
Thursday: Rebecca Blank, dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan from 1999 to 2007. Blank, who is currently on leave and is the visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, was on the President's Council of Economic Advisors under former President Clinton in 1997-99.
Reilly and a Board of Regents search committee, led by chair David Walsh, will interview all the candidates on Wednesday. They hope to name their pick later in May, with the new chancellor expected to be officially appointed at the next regularly scheduled Board of Regents meeting June 5-6 at UW-Milwaukee.
Wiley, who has led UW-Madison since 2001, is leaving his post in September.
The Cap Times conducted phone interviews with each of the candidates last week. For an edited transcript of those conversations, click on the links below:
** Tim Mulcahy
For more information, including a complete resume for each of the finalists, visit the UW-Madison's chancellor search Web site at www.chancellorsearch.wisc.edu.
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The search for a new UW chancellor continues this week.
