If you haven’t seen this interview with UW System President Kevin Reilly by Todd Finkelmeyer, it’s worthwhile reading.
Author: Joe Salmons
Materials from the forum on financing public higher education
With the permission of the presenters, we’re posting the slides from yesterday’s forum. As one presenter said afterwards, most of the slides may be cryptic to those who weren’t at the forum, but there’s a lot of information in there.…
Flyer for the forum on financing public higher education
The reaction to next week’s forum has been very positive and we’re getting requests for copies of the flyer for the event. The image below, a small jpeg version, can be downloaded here. We are already discussing future forums, building…
Campus Forum on Financing Public Higher Education: Feb 23, Memorial Union
How will we pay for public higher education in Wisconsin and at UW–Madison in the years to come? This will be the topic of a public forum later this month on the UW–Madison campus. PROFS, the Public Representation Organization of…
Smart furlough resolution passes, and PROFS in the news
We have noted here recently that the Faculty Senate was going to vote today on a resolution supporting Rep. Kelda Helen Roys’ Smart Furlough bill (AB 551, full text available here). At the meeting this afternoon, it passed — unanimously,…
Staying on top of faculty issues at UW–Madison
One of the reasons, maybe the main reason, that PROFS decided to put this Faculty Forum at the literal and figurative center of its new website was simple: We sense that there’s a need for better lines of communication about…
Faculty Senate resolution on Smart Furloughs
When the UW–Madison Faculty Senate meets at 3:30 on Monday, February 1 in Bascom Hall Room 272 (pictured here), we will vote on a resolution to support the Smart Furlough legislation. As pointed out in this forum earlier, we strongly…
AAUP on working with legislators
The current issue of ACADEME (The Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors) is dedicated to a topic of real interest to us at UW–Madison: “Governance in a Time of Financial Crisis”. It includes good pieces like “A call…
Remarks on the PROFS 2008-2009 Annual Report to the Faculty Senate
The PROFS Annual Report for 2008-2009 is now available here and it provides a chance to bring you up to date on the most important developments. Most fundamentally, PROFS finds itself in a strong position, thanks to the hard work…