Robert Mandel is stepping down as director of the University of Wisconsin Press, effective May 26.
Susan Cook will serve as interim director while the UW-Madison Graduate School conducts a national search for Mandel’s replacement. In the meantime, Mandel will spend a year as a special consultant to the Graduate School.
Mandel said that budget cuts had forced the press to scale back the number of publications. He said that at the time he was hired five years ago, the Graduate School had decided to expand the press.