
Professor of Public Affairs and Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
Chancellor Emeritus
Interim Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Senior Scholar, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education
Office: 322 Lathrop Hall
Phone: (608) 265-4927
E-mail:
Lathrop Hall
1050 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
John D. Wiley is professor of public affairs and educational leadership and policy analysis, and a senior scholar with the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education. Wiley served as chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2001-2008, and was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs from 1994–2000. He was dean of the Graduate School, the university’s senior research officer, and associate dean for research in the College of Engineering, 1986–89, and chair of Materials Science Program, 1982-86.
Wiley joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1975. His research focused on semiconductors and related materials and processes. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968, then worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories 1968–1974, and spent a year at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany as a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist Award for Research and Teaching.
In 2006 Wiley chaired the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors. He chairs the board for the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Self Regulation: Past, Present, and Future, address to Council of Higher Education Accreditation, January 24, 2006
PA 974 Science and Public Policy: spring 2011, spring 2010, spring 2009