Last week, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents President Ed Manydeeds announced the UW-Madison Chancellor Search Committee. The 21-member committee will be chaired by Regent Vice President Karen Walsh, and Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Susan Hagness will serve as vice chair. In addition to Hagness, the committee includes Professors Jon Eckhardt (Business), Adena Rissman (Forest & Wildlife Ecology), Ananth Seshadri (Economics) and Anja Wanner (English).
Last month, the Regents voted to approve changes to Regent Policy Document 6.4, which outlines President and Chancellor searches. PROFS worked with UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson and the Regents, and successfully advocated for the changes which allows for greater representation of shared governance groups on search committees.
The full committee:
- Chair Karen Walsh, Regent
- Vice-Chair Susan Hagness, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Amy Blumenfeld Bogost, Regent
- Jon Eckhardt, Associate Professor, School of Business
- Ndemazea Fonkem, Student
- Gail Ford, Director, PEOPLE Program, Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement
- Robert Golden, Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Luis Gonzalez-Quizhpe, Student
- Erik Iverson, Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Mike Jones, Regent
- Tracey L. Klein, Regent
- Aerin Leigh Lammers, Student
- Edmund Manydeeds III, Regent President
- John W. Miller, Regent
- Adena Rissman, Professor, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- Ananth Seshadri, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Economics
- Jack Salzwedel, Community Representative
- Mike Shannon, Community Representative
- Samantha Skenandore, Community Representative
- Lisa Walters, Administrative Manager, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration
- Anja Wanner, Professor and Department Chair, Department of English