{"id":1287,"date":"2011-02-20T18:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2011-02-23T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:59:27","slug":"faculty-alumni-group-divide-on-splitting-uw-%e2%80%94-not-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Faculty, alumni group divide on splitting UW&#8221;  \u2014 not exactly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note: We have been informed that this letter will run in the Friday, February 25 newspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To the editors of the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:<\/em><br \/>\nWe read with concern your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/education\/116515833.html \">article<\/a> yesterday &#8220;Faculty, alumni group divide on splitting UW&#8221;. That headline makes a serious claim not backed up in the article itself: The piece shows no actual disagreement between faculty and the Alumni Association regarding \u2018flexibilities\u2019 or collective bargaining, the two issues discussed. To the first, our University Committee and our deans (in ads in both Madison student papers on Friday) have repeatedly endorsed efforts to achieve budget flexibilities for UW\u2013Madison, Chancellor Biddy Martin\u2019s stated goal. Neither group has yet taken a public stand on possible separation from the System. To the second, the article suggests that the difference lies in our faculty\u2019s support for collective bargaining, implying that the chancellor and WAA do not. Chancellor Martin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/18986\">on record<\/a> as supporting \u2018creative thinking\u2019 on this topic. We ask that the record be set straight.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Burstyn, Chair of the Board of Directors, Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate, UW\u2013Madison<br \/>\nJoseph Salmons, President, Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate, UW\u2013Madison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: We have been informed that this letter will run in the Friday, February 25 newspaper To the editors of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: We read with concern your article yesterday &#8220;Faculty, alumni group divide on splitting UW&#8221;. That headline&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1287\">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":[19,13,17],"tags":[24,137],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2011-13-state-budget","tag-uw-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}