The Faculty Senate met on Monday, April 4 and overwhelmingly supported a resolution in support of academic freedom. The resolution specifically calls on Chancellor Biddy Martin to defend the academic freedom rights of the faculty and to take a leadership…
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PROFS Response to The New York Times
Judith Burstyn, Chair of the PROFS Board of Directors, and Joe Salmons, President of the PROFS Steering Committee sent the following letter to The New York Times: Thank you for your excellent and continuing coverage of the Wisconsin state budget…
Classes on Friday
It appears that tomorrow may well be the biggest day yet at the Capitol in the current wave of activity, with the consequence that there is likely to be yet less activity on campus than there was today. As we…
Is this talking point finally dying? “Overpaid Professors in Their Cushy Jobs”
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education (here) has a piece by Ben Gose, that starts with this: The notion that college professors lead easy lives isn’t quite dead, but it may soon be history. A decade or two ago, it wasn’t…
A move to end furloughs and restore raises
This piece by AP reporter Ryan Foley details efforts by the University of Wisconsin System to end state-mandated furloughs for non-represented University of Wisconsin employees and to restore the 2% pay raises for faculty and academic staff eliminated from the…
Legislative Special Committee Appointments
Many thanks to the following faculty members who have generously agreed to serve on legislative special committees: Jeff Patterson, Family Medicine; Special Committee on Health Care Access Roberta Riportella, Consumer Science; Special Committee on Health Care Access Sara Goldrick-Rab, Educational…