Green Bay’s Ward named interim UW System VP for academic affairs

In case you missed Friday’s announcement, UW System President Ray Cross has named David J. Ward as interim senior vice president for academic and student affairs for the UW System. Ward is well-known around these parts — he is a Green Bay native, an early member of the Business faculty here, UW-Green Bay’s interim chancellor in 2008-09 and a regular at Phoenix women’s basketball games for many years. He is CEO of NorthStar Consulting, Inc., a Madison-based economic consulting and research firm he established in 2000, and he was recently named chair of the WiSys Technology Foundation.