University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Chancellor Search and Screen Committee named

MADISON, Wis.-Amy B. Bogost, President of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, and Jay Rothman, President of the Universities of Wisconsin, today appointed a 16-member Search and Screen Committee to help identify the next UW-Milwaukee (UWM) chancellor.

Regent Joan Prince will chair the Search and Screen Committee. Gillian Rodger, Chair and Professor, Department of Music, Peck School of the Arts, will be the vice chair. Other members of the committee are:

• Nicholas Bauer, Founding Partner, Operose Advisors
• Amy B. Bogost, Regent President
• Barry Cameron, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences
• Héctor Colón, Regent
• Tanner Cronce, Vice President of Student Affairs, UWM Student Association
• David Crowley, Milwaukee County Executive
• Gail Dukes, Benefits Specialist, Department of Human Resources
• Jacquelyn Fredrick, Board Member, UWM Research Foundation
• Rebecca Marie Freer, Associate Dean of Students
• David Lubar, President and CEO, Lubar & Co.
• Amber Moreno-Padilla, Student, UWM
• Jack Salzwedel, Regent
• Julia Snethen, Professor, School of Nursing
• Kyle Weatherly, Regent Vice President

"Leading UW-Milwaukee is one of the most important jobs in Wisconsin's largest city," Bogost said. "As a top research university with an access mission, UWM's success is critical to Milwaukee and to our state. UWM's next leader must be ready to tackle challenges, nurture success, and present a vision to amplify the university's strengths in the next decade and beyond."

UW-Milwaukee is Wisconsin's second-largest public university, with approximately 23,000 students - 39 percent of whom are the first in their families to attend college. The university offers 214 academic programs and generates nearly $40 million in research grants annually.

The Search and Screen Committee is expected to convene next week when the committee will receive its charge regarding its mission and will review search procedures. A team of staff from UWSA Human Resources, the Office of the Board of Regents, and the executive search firm of WittKieffer will assist the committee throughout this search process.

The committee will determine and interview candidates. A Special Regent Committee will review candidates forwarded by the Search and Screen Committee. The Special Regent Committee will include Regents Bogost, Colón, Prince, Salzwedel, and Weatherly and will be chaired by Prince.

The successful candidate will require the approval of the full Board of Regents.

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