WINONA, Minn. – For the coming year while Winona State University conducts a national search for a chief academic officer, Julie Furst-Bowe will hold the position. Most recently Furst-Bowe has been the interim faculty affairs administrator at the University of Rochester, a private research institution in New York. The Winona State appointment was made by university President Ken Janz. Her salary: $226,600. The position was vacated twhen Darrell Newton left after 3-1/2 years for a simiar position at Shippensburg University in south-central Pennsylvania, which with 8,200 students is larger than Winona State. Over the past 35 years, Furst-Bowe has been mostly at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Furst-Bowe also has served as chancellor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and as academic vice president at Chippewa Valley Technical College. After retiring in 2021 she became interim academic vice president at Arkansas Tech University, then at the University of Rochester. She has been a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission for 20 years. She holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, a master’s from UW-Stout, and a bachelor’s from UW-Eau Claire.
Furst-Bowe. Now provost and academic president at WSU.