University of Illinois


University of Illinois officials selected Former University of Washington (UW) provost Phyllis Wise as the next chancellor and vice president of the Urbana-Champaign campus, The Chicago Tribune reports. Wise, who served as interim president at UW during the 2010-11 academic year, was the first Asian American woman to head a major U.S. university.

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