Isbell Accepts

Charles Isbell was my colleague at Georgia Tech for a long time. He has some news, which I am glad to convey in the words of the UW Madison Chancellor, Jennifer Mnookin:

I am delighted to share the terrific news that Dr. Charles Lee Isbell Jr., the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, has accepted my offer to become our next provost at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He will begin his work with us on August 1.

Isbell will be the next provost:

A provost is a senior academic administrator. At many institutions of higher education, they are the chief academic officer, a role that may be combined with being deputy to the chief executive officer. They may also be the chief executive officer of a university, of a branch campus of a university, or of a college within a university.

See this for more details about the hiring of Isbell.

Here is the level under Chancellor of the org chart for UW Madison, with Charles’s place in italics:

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration
Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Vice Chancellor for University Relations
Chief Diversity Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion
Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health

Congrads Charles—wonderful you are going to Madison. That is a wonderful place—I spent many happy days being a visitor there over the years. He is following UW-Madison Provost John Scholz who was named as the new president of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.