Chancellor finalist John Coleman addresses free expression, shared governance at public forum

Former University of Wisconsin political science department chair John Coleman, one of the three finalists for UW chancellor, met at Memorial Union Thursday for a public Q&A forum where he addressed different priorities for the position and his experience. Coleman is currently provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is also a political science professor. Previously, he served as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities for nearly a decade and was a political science faculty member at UW for 22 years, according to chancellor search. “We’re at a particularly momentous period in American higher education history in this country and in the world,” Coleman said. “This university is so well poised to do great, amazing things, and I am so grateful to this university for everything that it built for me.

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