Gilles Bousquet, an accomplished UW-Madison professor and administrator, will become the university's international studies dean, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced Thursday.
Bousquet will take over as dean Jan. 1, 2002, with an annual salary of $144,000.
As well as his current position of French professor and chair of the Department of French and Italian at UW-Madison, Bousquet is also director of the Capstone Professional French Masters Program, founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies and co-director of the School of Business' French-Business Summer Internship Program.
As dean, Bousquet will have three main roles: senior international education officer for UW-Madison; director of the International Institutes, a cross-college partnership of 16 area and international studies programs including seven federally funded National Resource Centers; and director of the Office of International Studies and Programs. He reports to the chancellor and the provost.
