MILWAUKEE — On the same day the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents approved a 5.5 percent tuition increase for most students, Carolyn “Biddy” Martin became the highest-paid chancellor in UW-Madison history and System President Kevin Reilly received a raise of more than $70,000.
Martin, the provost at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., was unanimously approved by the Regents as next chancellor of UW-Madison here on Thursday.