Provost Carolyn "Biddy" Martin has accepted the top job of chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The move ends Martin’s twenty-five-year career at Cornell, where she held her first professorship.
A German studies and women’s studies professor, Martin has been provost, Cornell’s chief officer of academics and operations, since 2000.
As chancellor of the 41,000-student public university, Martin’s responsibilities will including lobbying for UW-M’s re-accreditation in 2009 and for funding from the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2009-10 state budget.
The UW-Madison’s Board of Regents is expected to approve her appointment in early June. Martin knows Madison well, having received her doctorate in German literature there in 1985.
Read more in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s editorial and Cornell’s take in the Cornell Chronicle. Or download Martin’s CV.