UW-La Crosse has new chancellor, months after Joe Gow firing over pornographic videos

The next chancellor of UW-La Crosse will come to Wisconsin by way of New Hampshire.

Dr. James Beeby was picked by the UW Board of Regents to lead the La Crosse campus, beginning in July.

Beeby is a provost at Keene State College and was one of three finalists for chancellor, who spoke at forums on the UW-La Crosse campus last week.

He was recommended for the post by Universities of Wisconsin president Jay Rothman and a special regent search committee.

Beeby, a native of Wales, will be paid $281,000 a year as UW-L chancellor — about $18,000 more than what Gow was making. The new chancellor takes office July 1.

Beeby will succeed interim chancellor Betsy Morgan, who was also among the finalists, along with provost Christopher Olsen from Indiana State.

Morgan was promoted to the top job on campus after Joe Gow was fired as chancellor in December, when UW officials learned that Gow and his wife had been creating and posting homemade pornographic videos.

Gow’s tenure will be reviewed, to determine if he can remain on the UW-L campus, as a communications professor.