Governor Scott Walker announced his two appointments to the Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities today. Walker’s nominees, UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell and UW System Senior Vice President Emeritus David Olien, are the final…
October Faculty Senate Meeting
Interim Chancellor David Ward presented the State of the University address to the Faculty Senate Monday, October 3, sharing the Second-Year Progress Report on the Campus Strategic Framework and discussing the shift in revenue sources for the university. PROFS has…
Appointments Made to UW System Task Force
Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R-Horicon) and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) named 12 members to the Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities. The task force was created in Act 32, the 2011-13 state budget, to study…
PROFS to Cosponsor Higher Education Panel
PROFS is pleased to partner with the Wisconsin University Union (WUU) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to cosponsor a panel discussion featuring AAUP President Cary Nelson. Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,…
Senate Higher Education Committee to Meet Tuesday
The Wisconsin Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Higher Education will meet on Tuesday, September 27 at 10 am in Room 201 Southeast of the Capitol. The committee will discuss Senate Bill 184 and the appointments of two students to…
Despite Difficult Times, PROFS Records Major Accomplishments in 2011
The first half of 2011 was historic for the state and UW-Madison. A new governor took office in January, and in February he proposed a controversial budget repair bill which seriously weakened collective bargaining rights for most public employees. A…