Finalists named in chancellor search

UW System President Katharine C. Lyall Nov.27 announced the names of three finalists for the position of chancellor of UW–Madison.

The names have been forwarded to the Board of Regents’ Special Committee for the UW–Madison Chancellor Search, chaired by Regent President Jay Smith, which will interview the finalists in Madison on Thursday, November 2 and Friday, November 3.

Other committee members are Regents JoAnne Brandes, Guy Gottschalk, Frederick E. Mohs and Jose A. Olivieri. The full Board of Regents will take final action once it receives a recommendation from the special committee.

The finalists, their titles and current institutions are as follows:

• Nancy E. Cantor
  Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
  University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• Susan Westerberg Prager
  Provost and Chief Academic Officer
  Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
• John D. Wiley
  Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
  University of Wisconsin–Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)

A 21-member UW–Madison campus/community search and screen committee, chaired by Bernice Durand, professor of physics, submitted its recommendations to President Lyall on October 24. The committee is arranging and hosting two on-campus receptions for each finalist.

The person chosen by the Regents will become the 27th leader of the UW–Madison campus and will succeed David Ward, who has served in that position since 1993. Chancellor Ward announced in March that he would step down at the end of December.