Category: PROFS

Updated: PROFS and ASPRO State Budget Forum

by Michelle Felber • April 30, 2023 • Comments Off

Due to a scheduling conflict, State Representative Shelia Stubbs (D-Madison) is not able to participate in the PROFS/ASPRO State Budget Forum on Tuesday, May 2. State Senator Kelda Roys (D-Madison) will take her place on the panel. Senator Roys, elected to the State Senate in 2020, is a member of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee. She served two terms in the State Assembly from 2009-2012. She was also a candidate for the House of Representatives in 2012 and Governor in 2018.

The forum will be held at 4 pm, Tuesday, May 2 in the Wisconsin Idea Room in the Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall. The additional panelists:

State Representative Robert Wittke (R-Racine), member Colleges & Universities Committee
Crystal Potts, Director of State Relations, UW-Madison
UW Madison Professor J. Michael Collins (School of Human Ecology and La Follette School of Public Affairs) and PROFS Steering Committee member
PROFS Legislative Representative Jack O’Meara, moderator

Each panelist will offer insight to the 2023-25 state budget and members of the audience will have the opportunity to submit questions to the moderator. We expect a lively, bipartisan discussion.

This event is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

PROFS & ASPRO State Budget Forum

by Michelle Felber • April 25, 2023 • Comments Off

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PROFS and ASPRO State Budget Forum

by Michelle Felber • April 18, 2023 • Comments Off

View of the red front door of the UW-Madison Education Building PROFS and ASPRO will host a campus forum on the state budget at 4 pm, Tuesday, May 2 in the Wisconsin Idea Room in the Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall. This event is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Our panel:

State Representative Shelia Stubbs (D-Madison), member Colleges & Universities Committee
State Representative Robert Wittke (R-Racine), member Colleges & Universities Committee
Crystal Potts, Director of State Relations, UW-Madison
UW Madison Professor J. Michael Collins (School of Human Ecology and La Follette School of Public Affairs)

PROFS Legislative Representative Jack O’Meara will moderate.

In February, Governor Tony Evers announced a $104 billion spending plan that reflected the state’s record $7.1 billion surplus. The governor’s budget focused on increased funding for K-12 education and aid to local governments, middle-class tax cuts, and seed funding for a paid parental leave program for most of the state’s workers, but Republican leaders said they plan to work off the current base budget and create their own plan in the Joint Finance Committee.

The governor also announced a $3.8 billion capital budget, which directed $1.8 billion to UW System. Evers’ plan included four major projects at UW-Madison: a new Engineering Building, a new Athletics practice facility, new space for the Art Department, and restoration of Music Hall, but his proposal was deadlocked in the State Building Commission, leaving the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee to determine the capital budget as well.

Our panelists will offer insight on what a GOP-crafted budget may look like and how Governor Evers may use his veto authority once the bill reaches his desk later this summer.

PROFS Statement on Paid Family Leave

by Michelle Felber • March 30, 2023 • Comments Off

PROFS recognizes the importance of paid family leave to UW-Madison faculty and supports paid family leave for all state employees. We have had discussions with Governor Tony Evers and his staff on the issue and continue to make it a top legislative priority.

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March Legislative Update

by Michelle Felber • March 9, 2023 • Comments Off

This legislative update was shared with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate on Monday. The senate meets the first Monday of every month at 3:30 pm during the academic year, October through May, except in January. Guests are welcome to attend the meetings. More information is here.

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PROFS 2021-22 Annual Report

by Michelle Felber • March 2, 2023 • Comments Off

Michael Bernard-Donals,
PROFS President

PROFS president Michael Bernard-Donals will present the PROFS Annual Report for 2021-22 (below) to the Faculty Senate Monday, March 6. The senate meets in Room 272 Bascom Hall at 3:30 pm. A full agenda of the meeting is here.

Faculty senators and visitors are invited to join PROFS for refreshments in the rotunda area outside Room 272 Bascom Hall beginning at 3 pm.

We are also undertaking a membership drive and faculty members who join PROFS will receive a free PROFS mug. Information about PROFS and membership forms will be available before and after the Senate meeting.

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PROFS Statement on Governor Evers’ 2023-25 Budget Proposal

by Michelle Felber • February 16, 2023 • Comments Off

Last night, Governor Tony Evers delivered his biennial budget address, announcing a $104 billion in spending over two years. His plan for the 2023-25 state budget reflects increased spending as a result of a projected $7.1 billion budget surplus at the end of the current fiscal year. The largest items include a $2.6 billion K-12 budget, $1.2 billion in middle-class tax cuts, a second year $576 million increase in aid to local governments, and almost $250 million to seed a new family leave program for public and most private sector employees.

Evers’ budget also includes pay raises of 5% in the first year of the biennium and 3% in the second year and funding UW System’s Wisconsin Tuition Promise.

Our statement on Governor Evers’ budget proposal:

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Governor Evers’ University of Wisconsin System proposed budget:

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PROFS and ASPRO Forum on Campus Speech

by Michelle Felber • February 9, 2023 • Comments Off

Cover of the UW System Freedom of Speech survey report Following the release of results from a System-wide survey of students and their perceptions of free speech, PROFS and ASPRO (Academic Staff Professionals Representation Organization) will host a campus forum to discuss free speech on campus in a time of increased polarization and student confusion over the First Amendment.

The forum will be held at noon, Wednesday, February 22 in the Grainger Hall Executive Dining Room (Room 1266). PROFS President Michael Bernard-Donals will moderate the panel discussion:

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

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February Legislative Update

by Michelle Felber • February 9, 2023 • Comments Off

This legislative update will be shared with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate on Monday. The senate meets the first Monday of every month at 3:30 pm during the academic year, October through May, except in January. Guests are welcome to attend the meetings. More information is here.

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UW-Madison State Budget Priorities

by Michelle Felber • January 24, 2023 • Comments Off

Governor Tony Evers will deliver his first State of the State Address of his second term in office at 7 pm tonight. Coverage of the speech is available on Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS Wisconsin.

While a preview of the speech was not made available, the governor is expected to offer some insight on where he might direct some of the state’s record $6.6 billion budget surplus as part of the 2023-25 biennial budget.

PROFS has already met with members of Governor Evers’ staff to discuss the upcoming budget, and UW-Madison has outlined its priorities in the handout below. The budget process is lengthy and begins on February 15 when the governor delivers his biennial budget message.

PROFS is actively involved throughout the entire process and will continue to keep faculty and the entire university community informed over the coming months. Follow PROFS on Facebook and Twitter for the most current information.

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