{"id":1008,"date":"2010-12-07T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-12-07T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:07:19","slug":"profs-report-to-the-faculty-senate-december-6-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"PROFS report to the Faculty Senate, December 6, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1010\" title=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images.jpg 268w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday\u2019s Faculty Senate meeting was the chance for the annual PROFS report to the Senate. Senators and visitors received the printed PROFS report (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secfac.wisc.edu\/senate\/2010\/1206\/2230.pdf\">here<\/a>) and a handout distributed at the meeting (<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?page_id=924\">here<\/a>). And we continued the PROFS tradition of cookies and coffee before and after the meeting. <em>Daily Cardinal<\/em> coverage of the meeting is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycardinal.com\/faculty-senate-discuss-recreational-facilities-public-representation-org-1.1822661\">here<\/a>. What follows is a written version of our remarks to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t repeat what\u2019s in the written materials you have, but would like to underscore a couple of points quickly. That means first thanking our staff, Jack O\u2019Meara and Michelle Felber, who work extremely hard for all of us \u2014 I\u2019ve come to rely on being in touch with them whenever PROFS business happens, including weekends and holidays. (Mentioning Jack and Michelle\u2019s efforts on our behalf brought applause from the University Committee that quickly spread throughout Bascom 272.) Our current Steering Committee, with steady help from the University Committee, has been very active in this critical time and will be more active with the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p>You see from the report the kinds of legislative work we\u2019ve been doing, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>supporting smart furlough legislation, to exclude people from furloughs who aren\u2019t paid on state funds,<\/li>\n<li>to protect academic freedom by getting a change in the language of SB 253,<\/li>\n<li>by working on and supporting a Decision Item Narrative or DIN that would bring over $5 million in graduate student funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ve also begun to play a more public role, including hosting candidate forums and facilitating involvement of the faculty in campaigns throughout the state during the last election. And a fair number of you have attended our forums on funding higher education. The next one is in planning.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, last year\u2019s PROFS report to the Senate marked the launch of our new website. Over the year, it has established itself as a source for news on faculty issues, with regular updates by PROFS staff and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>This coming year is going to be hard: we expect serious proposals to slash benefits for all state and university employees, including faculty and staff. We will be reminding policymakers that we&#8217;re already well behind the competition in terms of compensation. Dramatic increases in employee contributions, coupled with more furloughs, amount to cuts in pay. This will erode the quality of the faculty and, very quickly, the quality of the university. In short, PROFS will work to defend competitive faculty compensation, grad funding and your other key priorities.<\/p>\n<p>I conclude by stressing that PROFS is YOUR voice, your chance to speak directly to state government in particular. Perhaps connected to that role, we have been seeing a jump in new memberships. If you\u2019re not a member, you need to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u2019s Faculty Senate meeting was the chance for the annual PROFS report to the Senate. Senators and visitors received the printed PROFS report (here) and a handout distributed at the meeting (here). And we continued the PROFS tradition of cookies&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1008\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}