Category: Chancellor

Everyone wants a seat at the table when a campus picks a new leader, and it?s rare that groups say they have enough representation. With so many campus constituencies — including faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees, and community members — finding enough seats is tough, and more often than not, faculty members say they?re not given their fair share.

UW System President Kevin Reilly has put out the call for nominees to help select a new UW-Madison chancellor. Reilly will appoint a 23-member search-and-screen committee consisting of 12 faculty members, two academic staff members, one classified staff member, two administrators (one from UW-Madison and one from UW System administration), two UW-Madison students and four community members. Nominations are due on Friday, Sept. 30, and Reilly is expected to appoint the committee some time in October, said UW System Spokesman David Giroux.

David Ward will earn $437,000 for his one-year stint as interim UW-Madison chancellor under a contract approved by the UW Board of Regents Friday. It?s the same amount that Chancellor Biddy Martin earned.

Biddy Martin did her due diligence as the outgoing chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last week when she allotted much of her schedule to parting interviews with a variety of media. What follows is an edited version of a 24-minute session held last Thursday afternoon.

Before the search for a new chancellor begins, consider a few changes in the process so we don?t end up with another Biddy Martin, whose sole “accomplishment” was a failed attempt to break up the UW System. In tough economic times, substantially lowering the salary from where it stands now (nearly half a million a year) would send a positive signal to the rest of the state that no one is exempt from sharing the economic sacrifices the rest of us are expected to make.

Biddy Martin could barely get out the words that she was feeling both ?sad and happy? about leaving UW-Madison before members of the UW Marching band began serenading her with a song.?Heyyyyy, baby,? they sang, circling her where she stood on Bascom Hill. ?I wanna know-oh-oh. Would you be my girl?? Nearby, a red and white striped tent housed trays of steaming bratwursts, jugs of iced tea and gallons of the aptly named ice cream Strawbiddy Swirl. A line snaked up the hill as people waited to get a plate of food and wish Martin well. It was a festive picnic to send off the UW-Madison chancellor to her new job as president of Amherst College. Her last day in office is Thursday.

Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said her final goodbyes to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday.

MADISON, Wis. — As the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band played its time-honored ?On Wisconsin? at Bascom Hill, its usual sweet melody sounded a little bittersweet Wednesday afternoon.

Bid UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin goodbye with Bucky, brats, and her namesake ice cream, Strawbiddy Swirl. A farewell barbecue will be held on Bascom Hill Wednesday, beginning at 11 a.m.

WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters conducts a video interview with outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin.

In her final days as chancellor, Biddy Martin?s office in Bascom Hall is flooded with well-wishers, news reporters and campus officials with last-minute business.

Before moving on to become the first female president of Amherst College, outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin agreed to sit down Thursday for a short exit interview in her Bascom Hall office.

Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said the political turmoil around her would have had made it difficult for her to continue at UW-Madison.

UW System President Kevin Reilly and Board of Regents President Michael Spector held a news briefing Wednesday at Bascom Hall to announce the interim chancellor. Reilly made the hiring decision after consulting with Board of Regents leadership and key UW-Madison stakeholders such as administrators, faculty, staff, alumni and donors.

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David J. Ward will serve as interim chancellor while a team searches for a new leader for the state?s flagship school, officials said Wednesday.

Former UW Madison Chancellor David Ward serve as interim chancellor as the school looks to replace Biddy Martin.

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor is returning to the position on an interim basis while UW officials seek a permanent replacement for the most recent chancellor.

A former UW Madison chancellor will serve in that post until a replacement is found for Biddy Martin.

David Ward, who led UW-Madison from 1993 to 2000, will be introduced as the university?s interim chancellor at a press conference Wednesday afternoon, sources have told The Capital Times.

I read with interest outgoing UW Chancellor Biddy Martin?s list of ?accomplishments,? which included increased tuition for most middle class students, starting a book club, giving President Barack Obama a jersey, appearing in a music video, posing for pictures with students during snowball fights, going to China twice and apparently tweeting a lot with students.She also failed to achieve the New Badger Partnership Plan. For this she was paid more than 1.2 million dollars over three years.

We talk with the newly named president of Amherst College, Carolyn Martin, the college?s first female president, about her new post and politics in higher education. (Audio.)

Who are the top candidates to lead the University of Wisconsin-Madison while it searches for a permanent replacement for Chancellor Biddy Martin, who announced Tuesday she?s stepping down to lead Amherst College?

I posed that question to more than a dozen campus insiders over the past few days, and three names were consistently mentioned as top options: Paul DeLuca, John Wiley and Gary Sandefur.

….Insiders say the search to replace Martin will likely take eight months to a year, so whoever is named interim chancellor will have an opportunity to make a significant mark on campus.

Biddy Martin began her public transition from chancellor of UW-Madison to president of Amherst College on Thursday when she appeared at a welcome event on the campus of the Massachusetts liberal arts campus.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison is losing its chancellor. Carolyn Martin was embroiled in the recent political battles over the budget for higher education in her state. She?s acknowledged the “turmoil” of the past year but wouldn?t say how big a role it played in her departure. She?ll become president of Amherst College in Massachusetts.

UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin took a trip to Amherst College for a ceremony introducing her as the soon-to-be president. Martin is leaving her Wisconsin after being heavily recruited by the Massachusetts college.

 Amherst College welcomed its new president Thursday.

As soon as she announced that she was leaving her post to become the president of Amherst College, UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn ?Biddy? Martin faced an onslaught of op-eds and feature stories attempting to quantify and summarize her impact on the university as a whole during her tenure here?her legacy, her policies, her controversies. None of that is really in The A.V. Club wheelhouse. Instead, we opted to evaluate how Biddy asserted her role as Chancellor over the campus literary scene, Babcock ice cream, and YouTube to influence Madison?s pop-culture zeitgeist.

UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin?s announcement on Tuesday that she would be leaving the university to become the president of Amherst College came as a huge surprise to most of the campus community. Martin announced her decision just days after the state legislature?s Joint Finance Committee rejected the major proposals of her contentious new business model for the university, called the New Badger Partnership.

Amherst College has named Carolyn Arthur ?Biddy? Martin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin?s Madison flagship campus, as the college?s 19th president.

UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said she was a recent, reluctant candidate for the presidency of Amherst College, but the opportunity to lead the Massachusetts liberal arts school was one she couldn?t turn down.

University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin was, during her relatively short tenure as the head of the state?s flagship institution of higher learning, a relatively controversial figure.

That does not mean that Martin, who has announced that she will leave this summer to take over as chancellor of Amherst College, was a bad player. She was, in many senses, an engaged and effective administrator. And we wish Martin well in her next endeavor. But we hope that the next chancellor will be very different from the departing one.

Martin did not ?get? Wisconsin, and that prevented her from playing the role she might have in shaping the UW?s future. Her attempts to radically restructure the Madison campus?s relationship with the rest of the UW system and with the state never really took off.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly will appoint an interim chancellor to replace Biddy Martin when she leaves UW-Madison in the next four to six weeks. Then, he will appoint a search and screen committee made up of faculty, staff, students and campus supporters to come up with a slate of finalists. Finally, a committee of Regents and Reilly will recommend a candidate to the full UW Board of Regents for approval.