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More than fifty people applied for the job of UW-Madison chancellor. We told you Wednesday that the search to replace John Wiley is now down to the final four.

All four candidates will hold meet and greets with UW students, faculty, staff, and media on various days next week. The Board of Regents will interview the candidates on Wednesday.

Only one of the finalists has current ties to the campus. Dr. Gary Sandefur said he considered applying when the position became available, but he really put his name in the hat after a number of aqu

Four finalists were named Wednesday for the University of Wisconsin chancellor position that will be vacated when John Wiley steps down this fall.

MADISON, Wis. – Only one internal candidate is on the short list to be the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has announced the names of four finalists for the position. Chancellor John Wiley is leaving in September.

The field of finalists for the top job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes the dean of the university’s largest college and three outsiders: a former dean, a provost and a vice president for research.

Three of the four candidates vying for the top spot at UW-Madison have ties to the university.

The University of Wisconsin System announced the finalists Wednesday in the search to replace Chancellor John Wiley. He is planning to step down in September.

Only one internal candidate is on the short list to be the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has announced the names of four finalists for the position.

Only one internal candidate is on the short list to be the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.

John Wiley is ready to step down.
â??126 days,â? he said off the tip of his tongue.
Not that heâ??s counting.

Reilly named four finalists as potential replacements for current Chancellor John Wiley Wednesday, who plans to step down in September. Each said they were honored to be finalists:

As the four chancellor finalists were announced Wednesday, those close to the process prepare to judge them as they visit campus next week.

David Walsh, chair of a special UW System Board of Regents committee, said the Regents committee and UW System President Kevin Reilly will interview them individually May 14.

Four candidates from UW-Madison are potentially vying to be chancellor on campus, though finalists are set to be announced Wednesday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three of four finalists to be the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor have ties to the state’s flagship university.

UW System President Kevin Reilly announced the four candidates on Wednesday. The two men and two women are vying to replace Chancellor John Wiley, who is stepping down in September after seven years. None are minorities.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly on Tuesday announced four finalists who are being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison.

The candidates are: Gary Sandefur, dean of UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Sciences; Biddy (Carolyn) Martin, Provost of Cornell University in New York; R. Timothy Mulcahy, vice president for research at the University of Minnesota; and Rebecca Blank, former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Economist Michael Knetter, Ph.D., who speaks annually at the Northern Trust Economic Trends Breakfast presented by Small Business Times, is among at least four internal candidates who have been nominated to apply to be the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Knetter has been the dean of UW School of Business and a professor of finance, investment and banking since July 2002.
Sources told SBT this week that Knetter was interviewed last week for the position. The other internal UW candidates for the position include: Patrick Farrell, Ph.D., provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs; Richard Moss, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physiology; and Gary Sandefur, Ph.D., dean of the College of Letters and Science.

The UW-Madison Chancellor Search and Screen Committee will narrow the candidates to succeed current Chancellor John Wiley at a closed meeting Tuesday, making its final recommendations to the UW System Board of Regents afterward.

The University of Massachusetts yesterday tapped Robert C. Holub, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, as chancellor of the state’s flagship campus in Amherst, landing a veteran administrator who has held high-ranking positions at two major public universities.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Holub specializes in 19th- and 20th-century German intellectual, cultural, and literary history

An official from the search firm assisting University of Wisconsin in its chancellor search said Monday making public the name of one of the chancellor candidates last week was â??an honest mistake.â?

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells is one of three finalists for the top job at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, he announced Monday. [Final item in Regional News Briefs].

Whether to make public the list of applicants for the top job at a university can be a tricky proposition, as the University of Wisconsin at Madison has just been reminded.

The university said last week that 55 people had applied to be the next chancellor of the Madison campus. University officials also released the names of nine candidates who they said had not requested confidentiality. But, unfortunately, one of the now-public candidates had indeed asked that his name be kept private.

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells is one of three candidates for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education chancellor position.

Wells was unavailable to comment because he is traveling out of state, said Jeanette DeDiemar, executive director of UWO integrated marketing and communications.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a private search firm apologized Monday for mistakenly releasing the identity of an applicant for the school’s top job.

UW-Madison said last week that 55 people had applied to succeed John Wiley as chancellor. The university also released the names of nine applicants it said did not request confidentiality.

Among the names made public was Jorge Jose, the vice president for research at the University of Buffalo in New York.

The state is not offering enough financial incentives to retain qualified college administrators, according to educators Sunday, with two UW-System chancellors leaving for better-paying positions.

Nine names of the 55 candidates for the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin were released Friday, though at least one said the university violated the terms of his application in doing so.

Of the 55 people who applied for the top spot at Wisconsin’s public flagship university, all but nine names remain secret.

Rumors swirl about internal applicants for the job, but the list of non-confidential candidates doesn’t name any insiders. One candidate, Albert L. Wiley Jr., comes closest to being a local – he was a UW-Madison professor for two decades.

The new chancellor will succeed John Wiley, who announced he would step down in September.

Of the 55 people who applied for the top spot at Wisconsin’s public flagship university, all but nine names remain secret.

Rumors swirl about internal applicants for the job, but the list of non-confidential candidates doesn’t name any insiders. One candidate, Albert L. Wiley Jr., comes closest to being a local – he was a UW-Madison professor for two decades.

A year after dropping out of the running for another top job, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard has decided now is his time to go.

Shepard, 61, has been named the preferred candidate for the presidency of Western Washington University, a school of more than 13,000 in Bellingham, Wash.

Fifty-five applications have been received by the committee charged with filling the position Chancellor John Wiley will vacate when he steps down this fall.

The UW-Madison received 55 applications by the Thursday deadline for the position of chancellor that will become vacant when John Wiley leaves the post in September.

One who did not apply was Boston Mayor Thomas Menino who, as a nominee, received one of the 250 application packets.

Menino made it clear to a Boston Globe reporter that he was not interested.

But packets were sent out to everyone who was nominated by people within or outside the University of Wisconsin.

Could Mayor Thomas M. Menino reinvent himself as a cheesehead? Unbeknownst to the mayor, someone has floated his name as a candidate to be the next chancellor – the Big Cheese, if you will – at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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A thick packet arrived at City Hall a few weeks ago from the land of dairy cows and the Green Bay Packers, imploring Menino to give up City Hall for an academic idyll in the Midwest.

It takes five pages to describe the job of UW-Madison chancellor.

The comprehensive document covers everything from a commitment to scholarly values to fundraising and having an interest in the appropriate use of new technologies.

“Certainly anybody who makes the short list will know exactly what they’re in for,” said Chancellor John Wiley, who’s held the top job at the state’s flagship university since 2001. He’ll step down in September.

Some things just don’t fit into job descriptions.

UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, who will step down in September, talks about some of his adventures while holding the university’s top office.

Madison, Wis. – At the University of Colorado in Boulder, which is akin to the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a mountain view, many faculty and students are aghast over the state Board of Regents’ selection this month of a businessman with no academic credentials as the president of the three-campus university system.

In the modern, knowledge-based economy, UW-Madison ‘s leadership in research, innovation and education is a valuable state asset.
To maintain and enhance that asset, the state needs to put top-quality leaders in charge. To attract that kind of leadership in a competitive market, the university should pay what is needed, within reason.

University of Wisconsin System officials are mulling a potentially huge pay raise for the next UW-Madison chancellor in hopes of attracting the best candidates to the top job at the state’s flagship school.