Finalists named in UW-La Crosse chancellor search
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is one step closer to finding a new chancellor and turning the page on a scandal involving its former leader.
Finalists will participate in campus forums March 4-6. The finalists are:
● James Beeby, provost of Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire
● Betsy Morgan, interim chancellor of UW-La Crosse
● Christopher Olsen, provost of Indiana State University
The UW Board of Regents is expected to make its pick later this month
The UW System did not immediately respond Friday about the number of applications received.
Before Morgan was named a finalist, the interim chancellor fielded a complaint filed by her boss, UW System President Jay Rothman, against her former boss, former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow.
The regents removed Gow as chancellor late last year after discovering he had created sex tapes with his wife and posted them on porn websites. Gow remains a professor, but he isn't teaching this semester. He is on paid leave while the investigation is ongoing.
The UW System hired Husch Blackwell, an outside law firm, to investigate. The findings will go to the UWLa Crosse chancellor and a faculty committee to decide whether Gow should be fired from his tenured faculty position.