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Edmund Manydeeds will serve as president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents for the 2021-2022 school year.
Manydeeds, an attorney in Eau Claire, was the first Native American member of the Board of Regents when he was appointed to his first term in 2010. He is an enrolled member of South Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe. He received his bachelor’s degree from UW-Superior and his law degree from UW-Madison.
Dr. Maria Gallo, President of Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., has been named the 20th Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–River Falls.
Dr. Maria Gallo, president of Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., has been named the University of WisconsinâRiver Falls 20th chancellor.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved Galloâs appointment, following a recommendation made by a selection committee. Gallo will assume the leadership post on July 15, 2021.
Gallo, a Fulbright Scholar and a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America, has been president of Delaware Valley University since July 1, 2016. Under her leadership, the university announced its first endowed professorship, increased student retention and grew its hydroponics and aquaponics education program.
John Miller, who joined the board in February on an interim basis.
The Friday appointments by the Democratic governor mark a shift for the Board of Regents. Between 2015 and February 2021, the board was mostly made up of appointees of former Republican Gov.
A total of 18 people serve on the board, nine now appointed by Evers and seven appointed by Walker.
Two seats are reserved for Wisconsin’s superintendent of schools and the chair of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Rai has been president and CEO of Prevea Health since 2009 and is a practicing physician at Woodside Lutheran Nursing Home in Green Bay. Rai earned his bachelors degree from UW-Milwaukee and his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin.