Recently Filled Academic Leadership Positions

LaVar Charleston, an innovative leader and accomplished researcher with nearly two decades of experience related to diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education, has been named to lead the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s diversity and inclusion …

Chris Walker, an artist and an experienced and influential leader in the arts on campus, has been named the new director of the Division of the Arts. Walker is a professor in the School of …

Provost Karl Scholz has announced the appointment of two new faculty vice provosts, both of whom will serve in key leadership positions for the provost’s office. Beth Meyerand, professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering, …

Daniel P. Tokaji has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has been a professor at The Ohio State State University Moritz College of Law since 2003, serving as associate dean …

Eric Wilcots has been selected as the next dean of the College of Letters & Science, the largest academic unit at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wilcots has been serving as interim dean of the college …

Karl Martin, who has served as interim dean and director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension since June 2018, has been chosen to serve as the permanent dean and director of the division. …

Following a nationwide search, John Karl Scholz, an economist and dean of the College of Letters & Science at UW–Madison, has been chosen as the university’s next provost. In his six years leading the university’s …