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Campus Connection: Martin says proposal’s demise did not drive decision to leave UW

There were times, not so long ago, when Biddy Martin envisioned spending the rest of her career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But after getting embroiled in a contentious debate with other higher education leaders across Wisconsin about how best to garner long-sought freedoms from state oversight, the 60-year-old UW-Madison chancellor announced Tuesday she is taking her talents to at least one more stop.