Looking back at seven sometimes stormy years in the top post at UW-Madison, Chancellor John Wiley said that the best parts of the experience — and the worst — involved personnel matters.
The good part was finding highly qualified people for key jobs. “We have the best collection of deans this campus has ever had,” Wiley said during a press conference Friday at the Chazen Museum of Art, where he announced that he would leave the chancellor’s post in September 2008.
But the worst parts of the personnel process were not the highly publicized incidents in which felons were found to be working at the university, or the criticism of his placing Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows on a lengthy sick leave after allegations of sexual harassment were made against Barrows.