The provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is retiring, the school has announced. (Second item)
UW-Madison provost Spear to retire
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Peter Spear says he will retire at the end of this year. Spear, 60, has been provost since 2001. He was previously on the faculty at UW-Madison and spent five years as an administrator at the University of Colorado-Boulder.