Provost Wallace is on the job

The University’s new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, Julia E. Wallace, formally assumed her new duties Monday, July 27.

Wallace, shown here participating in a Tuesday cabinet meeting with, among others, Chancellor Thomas Harden (right) and Associate Provost Tim Sewall, comes to UW-Green Bay from Central Michigan University, where she was provost and vice president. Before that, she spent more than two decades as a gerontologist, professor of psychology, department chair and dean at the University of Northern Iowa.

In Green Bay, Wallace succeeds Susan K. Hammersmith, who served the University from 2002 until May 2008 when she became president of Metropolitan State University in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, and Bill Laatsch, who served as interim provost in the year following Hammersmith’s resignation.