Category: Chancellor

UW-Madison will turn to a familiar face as its next leader, announcing Monday that acting U.S. Commerce secretary Rebecca Blank will be its next chancellor.She was a finalist in 2008 when the job went to Biddy Martin.

WASHINGTON — Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, who has held the job since John Bryson resigned for medical reasons in June, is stepping down to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she said Monday.

When Rebecca Blank interviewed with members of a subcommittee of the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents, she finished 20 minutes early, having succinctly and adroitly made her points, according to sources.

Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will leave the department this summer to serve as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

As President Obama announced another choice on Monday for his second term Cabinet by choosing a new Secretary of Labor, one position in his Cabinet remains curiously unfilled, as it has for now for almost nine months.

Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank has reportedly been tapped as the next chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MADISON ? Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, a finalist to lead the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, was selected Monday to be its next chancellor starting in July.

Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank may serve in the Obama administration, but her recommendation to be the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has an enthusiastic Republican proponent: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Gov. Scott Walker says Rebecca Blank is a great pick for chancellor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?She has excellent academic credentials and strong leadership experience. Equally as important, she has a keen knowledge of economic issues that can help the UW promote great prosperity in the state,? Walker said after announcement Monday of Blank?s selection by search committee.

UW-Madison on Monday announced it has chosen Rebecca Blank as its new chancellor, turning to a familiar face who also was part of the final field of four in 2008 when Biddy Martin got the job.

Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank has been offered the job of chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university system announced Monday afternoon.

The acting Commerce secretary, Rebecca Blank, will leave her post in July to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(0) CommentsThe University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents acknowledged a spelling error Thursday in the contract for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor position that gave the job to singer Rebecca Black and not Dr. Rebecca Blank.

The four finalists for the UW-Madison chancellor position are Rebecca Blank, Michael Schill, Nicholas Jones and Kim Wilcox. Below are details on their current and past work. Click on their names for transcripts of their interviews with The Daily Cardinal. Below their biographies, click the link to read about their visits to campus.

he Education Optimists has weighed in on Rebecca Blank. And she?s not quite right for UW-Madison chancellor, writes blogger Sara Goldrick-Rab.Goldrick-Rab, a faculty senator and associate professor of educational policy studies who has been handicapping the four finalists for the top spot at UW-Madison, says Blank failed the litmus test that finalist Michael Schill aced when she met him at a reception March 7.

If you ask The Education Optimists, Michael Schill is the guy for UW-Madison.Sara Goldrick-Rab, faculty senator and associate professor of educational policy studies, pledged to assess each of the four candidates for chancellor.

Rebecca Blank said she?s had enough of the political battles in Washington, D.C., stressing in her visit to UW-Madison on Wednesday that she?s always considered college campuses her home and promising to use lessons learned as a top official in the U.S. Commerce Department if chosen as chancellor at UW-Madison.

Five years ago, Rebecca Blank came to UW-Madison as a finalist for the chancellor job that went to Biddy Martin. Now Blank is back as a finalist for the same job after serving in Washington, D.C., as a top official in the U.S. Commerce Department.

The third finalist for the University of Wisconsin?s top job visited campus Monday and emphasized the importance of taking risks as a leader.

Kim Wilcox was greeted at UW-Madison Monday by intermittent snow flurries and, in one case, a massive hug from an old friend as the Michigan State provost made the rounds as a finalist for chancellor.

If you ask The Education Optimists, Michael Schill is the guy for UW-Madison.Sara Goldrick-Rab, faculty senator and associate professor of educational policy studies, pledged to assess each of the four candidates for chancellor.

Kim Wilcox was greeted at UW-Madison Monday by intermittent snow flurries and, in one case, a massive hug from an old friend as the Michigan State provost made the rounds as a finalist for chancellor.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly has announced four finalists who are being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison. Read the press release from UW System.The finalists are: Rebecca M. Blank Nicholas P. Jones Michael H. Schill Kim A. Wilcox

As the outgoing provost of Michigan State University, Kim Wilcox may be well positioned to understand the culture at UW-Madison, another land-grant public research university with a high-profile athletics program.

Chancellor finalist and current dean of the University of Chicago Law School Michael Schill laid out his vision to keep college accessible and to empower University of Wisconsin students through communication and shared governance in a visit Thursday.

Nicholas Jones knows bridges. As an engineer, the finalist for UW-Madison chancellor has published dozens of studies on the durability of different types of spans in withstanding wind and vibrations. But he points to another type of bridges, those the engineering dean at Johns Hopkins University has helped build between academic departments, to make his case for the Madison job.

UW-Madison chancellor candidate Nicholas Jones spent a busy day on the snowy, sloppy campus Tuesday, noting that he felt a similar intellectual energy and spirit of cooperation he feels at Johns Hopkins University, where he?s dean of the engineering school.

Madison community leaders and the public will get their first chance to meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chancellor candidates starting this week.

UW-Madison may lose one of its four finalists for chancellor as Kim Wilcox, provost at Michigan State, will find out as early as today if he?s the new president at the University of Wyoming.

University of Wisconsin chancellor search finalist Kim Wilcox, current provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University, finds collaboration to be key in his leadership style.

For chancellor search finalist Michael Schill, a dean and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, fundraising and alumni engagement are essential for the future of the University of Wisconsin. 

The University of Wisconsin System announced the four finalists being considered to be the next chancellor at UW-Madison.

Four finalists will be interviewed for the position of University of Wisconsin chancellor, according to a release from the UW System.

The names of four finalists to become the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were made public Thursday, and the thing that jumps out is the absence of either a sitting president or any internal candidate from the UW campus.

The search for UW-Madison?s next chancellor continues on schedule, and seven of the 69 candidates? names are now known. They include no big names and no comically underqualified applicants, as happened when a pharmacist, Fed Ex courier and Epic analyst threw in their names for the football coaching job.The university released the names in response to a State Journal open records request for all candidates who did not opt out of public disclosure.

Like many on the UW-Madison campus these days, neuroscientist Ron Kalil is following closely the search for a new chancellor.

Members of the University of Wisconsin community began the search for the university?s next chancellor this semester in effort to find a replacement for Interim Chancellor David Ward by July 2013.

UW-Madison?s next chancellor could be the campus? first paid more than half a million dollars per year, if the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents approves a salary bump for the position. One faculty and staff representative was concerned that pushing the chancellor?s pay past $500,000 each year ? along with perks like a university car, a generous health and retirement package and living cost-free in Olin House ? could send the wrong message on a campus tightening its belt amid cuts in state funding, increasing tuition and stagnated faculty and staff wages.