MADISON, Wis. -- Only one internal candidate is on the short list to be the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced the names of four finalists for the position on Wednesday. Chancellor John Wiley is leaving in September. Wiley is stepping down after seven years.

The finalists include Dr. Gary Sandefur, who is dean of the College of Letters and Sciences on the UW-Madison campus. Sandefur has been dean since 2004.

The others are Dr. Biddy Martin, the provost of Cornell University in New York; Dr. Timothy Mulcahy, vice president for research at the University of Minnesota; and Dr. Rebecca Blank, the former dean at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Besides Sandefur, two of finalists have ties to the state's flagship university. Martin was a lecturer at UW-Madison during the early 1980s. Mulcahy spent 20 years of his career on the Madison campus, where he was associate vice chancellor for research policy from 2002 to 2005.

"It was an amazing pool, a very qualified pool. We're privileged to have so many qualified people interested in leading our university," said Marsha Seltzer, chair of the UW-Madison Chancellor Search Committee.

The Board of Regents Search Committee will now decide who is best to take the job. The committee will announce its decision at the board's June 6 meeting.