(The Center Square) — UW-Milwaukee’s new chancellor doesn’t have far to go to take his new job.
The university announced Dr. Thomas Gibson will start as the new chancellor at the Milwaukee campus later this summer. Gibson is already chancellor at UW-Stevens Point.
“Tom Gibson has made a tremendous impact at UW-Stevens Point, and he will be an extraordinary leader for UW-Milwaukee,” UW President Jay Rothman said in a statement.
“Tom has impressed us with his leadership style and grace,” Regent President Amy B. Bogost added. “He has handled every challenge facing him, from improving enrollment to resolving structural deficits to building external support. He was the right leader at the right time to move UW- Stevens Point.”
Bogost said she has “the same expectations for him at UW-Milwaukee.”
Gibson is replacing UW-M Chancellor Mark Mone, who announced his retirement last year shortly after pro-Palestinian protests took over parts of campus.
Mone never ordered the protesters or their illegal campus camps moved.
To end the protests, Mone signed an agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters that promised no punishments for protesters, and agreed with the protesters calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, and their claims that Israel’s actions caused a “plausible genocide.”
Jewish groups, and UW leaders criticized Mone for that agreement. He apologized, but later announced his retirement.
Gibson has been with the University of Wisconsin system since 2021. Before that he worked at Bowling Green State University.
UW leaders say they’re in the process of deciding about an interim chancellor at the Stevens Point campus.
Gibson made more than $301,000 as chancellor at Stevens Point. He is slated to make $525,000 as chancellor at UW-Milwaukee.
