Search and Screen Committee Assembled to Find New UW-Whitewater Chancellor

According to a press release from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, yesterday Edmund Manydeeds III, the President of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, and Michael J. Falbo, the interim President of the UW System, appointed a 12-member Search and Screen Committee to help identify the next UW-Whitewater chancellor.

Regent Amy Blumenfeld Bogost will chair the Search and Screen Committee. Lynn Gilbertson, Associate Professor and Department Chair in the College of Education and Professional Studies, will be vice chair. Other members of the committee are:

Tanja Anderson, Campus Administrative Specialist, Rock County Campus

Hector Colón, Regent

Ciera Edwards, Associate Director, University Bookstore

Lynn Gardinier, Community/Alumni Representative

Kimberly Nath, Associate Professor, College of Letters and Sciences

Praveen Parboteeah, Professor, College of Business and Economics

Ashok Rai, Regent

Davin Stavroplos, Student

Jill Underly, Regent

Kyle Weatherly, Regent

The national search is expected to officially begin July 1. A Special Regent Committee will review candidates forwarded by the Search and Screen Committee. The Special Regent Committee will include regents Bogost, Colón, Rai, Underly, and Weatherly, and will be chaired by Bogost. The successful candidate will require the approval of the full Board of Regents.