Skip to main content

Outgoing UW chancellor lashes out at business lobby

The outgoing chancellor of Wisconsin’s public flagship school is not leaving his post quietly.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley, who steps down Sept. 1 to pass the torch to former Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin, penned a 3,000-word story in the September issue of Madison Magazine blasting Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and what he describes as the hyper-partisan political environment at the state Capitol.