She also will join an athletics body that makes decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when the future of college sports is being shaped.
The chancellor role puts Mnookin on the Big Ten Conference’s influential Council of Presidents and Chancellors, which has the final say over many of the league’s business decisions.
Mnookin, who’s joining UW after six years as dean of the UCLA law school, won’t go into those meeting rooms unprepared, people in athletics and administration around the Big Ten said.
Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren and members of his senior leadership team help facilitate the introduction of new university leaders to the group, the conference said in a statement in response to questions.