Finalists named in search for UW System academic and student affairs leader

MADISON – University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly today announced the names of the finalists for the position of Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs for the UW System.

The finalists, who were identified through a national search process, will be interviewed in Madison April 18-20. The search-and-screen committee is chaired by UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer.

The finalists and their titles are as follows:

• Kathleen Bollard
  Vice President for Academic Affairs
  University of Colorado System
  (Bollard curriculum vitae pdf )
• Aaron Brower
  Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (Brower curriculum vitae pdf )
• Mark Nook
  Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
  University of Wisconsin System
  (Nook curriculum vitae pdf )
• Mrinalini (Meena) Rao
  Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  (Rao curriculum vitae pdf )

The person chosen will succeed Rebecca Martin, who left the Senior Vice President role in July 2011 to accept a position with the U.S. Education Delivery Institute in Washington, D.C.