{"id":2399,"date":"2011-11-17T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2011-11-17T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:50:21","slug":"november-faculty-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"November Faculty Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft 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>The Faculty Senate met last week, and PROFS was pleased to present its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secfac.wisc.edu\/senate\/2011\/1107\/2296.pdf\">2010-11 annual report<\/a>. Bill Tracy, president of PROFS, told the senate that PROFS had a very active year, taking the lead on several legislative issues.<\/p>\n<p>The senate also voted to approve a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secfac.wisc.edu\/senate\/2011\/1107\/2299.pdf\">resolution<\/a> in support of funding for education in Wisconsin. The resolution serves as a response from the faculty to the <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2310\">announcement<\/a> last month by the Wisconsin Department of Administration that UW System must prepare for a $174.3 million budget lapse &#8212; a return of money previously allocated in the 2011-13 state budget. The cut to UW System represents about 38 percent of the total lapse despite the fact that UW System accounts for just 7 percent of state spending.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . the Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls on the governor and the legislature of the state of Wisconsin to reduce the budget lapse to level proportional to the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s System&#8217;s share of the state budget, and that the governor and legislature make a commitment to restore and strengthen the state&#8217;s historic investment in education, which serves as a cornerstone for building a healthy economy, with well-paying jobs, and an educated populace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty Senate met last week, and PROFS was pleased to present its 2010-11 annual report. Bill Tracy, president of PROFS, told the senate that PROFS had a very active year, taking the lead on several legislative issues. The senate&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2399\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[11,4,19,17],"tags":[24,136],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-senate","category-profs","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-2011-13-state-budget","tag-faculty-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}