While PROFS is the legislative advocacy arm of the Faculty Senate and represents the interests of the faculty, the university is represented by UW-Madison’s Office of State Relations. Don Nelson, director of the office, recently announced an updated state relations…
Author: Michelle Felber
The Great Cost Shift
Demos, a non-partisan research and policy organization, has published The Great Cost Shift, a report that shows how state disinvestment in higher education has undermined the stability of the middle class. The study found that cuts to public higher education…
Regents Discuss Budget Priorities and Proposed Flexibilties
The University of Wisconsin-Superior hosted the April meeting of the Board of Regents last Thursday and Friday. Michael Morgan, UW System Senior Vice President for Administration and Fiscal Affairs, discussed UW System’s 2013-15 budget priorities. His PowerPoint presentation is here. Morgan…
Legislative Task Force on UW Restructuring to Meet Wednesday
The Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities will meet Wednesday, April 11 The meeting will be held from 9 am to 12:30 pm in Room 412 East of the State Capitol. The meeting will focus on three areas — the…
UW-Madison Research Expenditures Rank Third in Nation
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to rank third in the nation among research institutions, according to statistics from the National Science Foundation. The university spent $1.03 billion on research in 2010, behind Johns Hopkins University ($2 billion) and the University…
PROFS WRS Forum
Video from the PROFS forum on the Wisconsin Retirement System is now available on WisconsinEye. The forum featured three panelists — emerita professor Karen Holden; attorney Keith Johnson (Reinhart Boerner Van Duren, s.c.), former legal counsel to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB);…
Legislative Update
The 2011-12 regular legislative session ended March 16, drawing to a close one of the most divisive and contentious sessions in recent memory. Many of the bills that PROFS monitored and lobbied on were not acted upon, effectively killing the…
PROFS Forum Available Online
The PROFS forum on the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) will be available to watch live via Discovery WebEx. The password for the PROFS WRS Forum is 32712. You may be asked to run Java Applet installer, which will take about…
PROFS Lobbies in Washington, DC
Professor Bill Tracy, president of PROFS, and Jack O’Meara, legislative representative for PROFS, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby on behalf of UW-Madison faculty. They met with representatives from Wisconsin’s entire congressional delegation and had meetings with Senator Herb…
PROFS Responds to Rickert Column
Today’s Wisconsin State Journal editorial page features a letter from Professors Brad Barham and Bill Tracy, the chair and president of PROFS, respectively. Barham and Tracy wrote in response to a column written by Chris Rickert about faculty salaries. Here…