COAS dean candidate for UW provost

College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kumble Subbaswamy was named as a final candidate for provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Dec. 21, 2005, just three weeks after being named a finalist for provost at the University of Kentucky.\nThe new UW provost will replace Peter Spear, who retired in November.\nSubbaswamy is one of three final candidates announced after a seven-month search.\n"At a highly complex institution like UW-Madison, the provost serves the essential role of providing leadership and establishing long-term direction across all of our schools and colleges," said UW Chancellor John Wiley in a press release.\nAccording to the release, Subbaswamy will visit Madison's campus early in the spring semester.\nSubbaswamy visited Kentucky on Dec. 12, 2005, according to a UK press release.\nSubbaswamy was a finalist for the position of IU-Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs but was not selected by IU President Adam Herbert on Oct. 31, 2005.\nLike many University officials passed over for upper-level University jobs, Subbaswamy is a popular candidate for leadership positions at other universities and is expected to leave IU.\nInterim IU-Bloomington Chancellor Ken Gros Louis said there is a very real possibility Subbaswamy might leave IU.\n"If he is offered the job at Kentucky, I say it's 50-50. If he's offered the Madison job, I'd say it's 100 percent likely he'll leave," he said.\nIU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said Herbert has no comment on personnel changes at IU or other universities. Herbert has never acknowledged that Subbaswamy was a candidate for IUB chancellor.\nThe other candidates for UW-Madison provost are Patrick Farrell, executive associate dean of the UW-Madison College of Engineering and Sue Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\nThe provost position at UW is similar to that of IUB chancellor and UK provost.\nSubbaswamy, a physics professor, earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree in India and his doctorate at IU. He has been a professor at IU since 2000.