The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to keep its search for a new provost an internal one, Chancellor Biddy Martin announced Wednesday.
The provost is the university’s chief academic officer and generally is viewed as the No. 2 official on campus.
In December, Martin announced that Patrick Farrell would stop serving as UW-Madison’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the end of the 2008 fall semester. It is not unusual for new chancellors to appoint their own core leadership team. Martin became UW-Madison’s chancellor on Sept. 1.