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.