School of Business Gazette

Roger G. Maclean Joins School of Business As Associate Dean for Executive Education

Roger G. Maclean, an experienced higher education administrator on the UW-Madison campus, is now directing public executive education programs at UW-Madison. He began his new position on Jan. 23.

Maclean has been associate dean for academic affairs with the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies for seven years. In that role, he led credit and noncredit programs for returning adult students. He worked with schools and colleges across campus, the Wisconsin Alumni Association and other key units, and was involved in several distance education initiatives. He is on the board of directors of the National Association for Continuing Higher Education. He has a doctorate in education and a master of education, both from Pennsylvania State University. He earned his bachelor of science from Purdue University and pursued post-doctoral studies at the Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education at Harvard University. Before pursuing a career in higher education, he spent 13 years in corporate sales and marketing positions.

Maclean will work closely with Tammy Thayer-Ali, who was named president of the Center for Advanced Studies in Business, (CASB), Inc. in November and directs Executive Education's custom programming.