Associated Students of Madison (ASM) is working to reduce textbook costs for students, helping making higher education more affordable. As we all know, and as Jonah Zinn from ASM underscored at the February Faculty Senate meeting, textbook costs have risen…
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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…
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…