Aaron Brower

Dr. Aaron Brower was the Executive Director for UW Extended Campus and the Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin System until summer 2023, when he retired.

From 2012 to 2018, Brower served as Provost of UW-Extension (and Interim Chancellor of UW Colleges and UW-Extension in 2014). UWEX has a national reputation for award-winning, innovative online programs for adults and professionals. Among UWEX’s innovations is the UW Flexible Option, the first-in-the-country (and still the only) competency-based educational program delivered statewide.

From 2007 to 2021, he was UW–Madison’s Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning.

Brower remains a tenured professor at UW–Madison’s School of Social Work. His scholarship demonstrates the academic and social outcomes produced when colleagues blend in- and out-of-class learning — engaging the whole university to support the entire student.