Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.
Phyllis Wise ’67 was selected early this month as the new Chancellor and Vice President of the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus, pending the approval of the University’s Board of Trustees.
Wise is just off a spell as the interim President at the University of Washington, a position that made her “the first Asian American woman to lead a major American research university,” according to the Chicago Tribune.
In a statement published in the Tribune, UI President Michael Hogan said, “[Dr. Wise] is a proven scholar, with a deep commitment to public higher education, and has an exceptional reputation as a leader at some of the nation’s top universities. I couldn’t be more pleased to have her joining our distinguished leadership team.”
In 2008, Wise received an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore.
Read the Tribune’s full coverage here.