History of Steps Already Taken at UW-Milwaukee

A. Results from the Faculty survey in 2011

The Faculty Senate (at the April 21, 2011 meeting) authorized the UC to conduct an advisory on-line survey of the faculty.  A total of 305 faculty (roughly 35%) responded to the survey between April 22nd and May 6th.  The results from the three individual questions are shown below: 

  1. Do you support the Faculty Senate creating an organization to provide a public voice for faculty concerns? 
    • YES (218, or 71%); NO (87, or 29%)   
    • The “YES” responses (218) are 25% of the total number of UW-Milwaukee Faculty (874). 

The following questions were optional: 

  1. What is the maximum (as a percentage of salary) you would be willing to voluntarily contribute to this organization? 
    • Of those answering YES to Question #1: 
    • 0.1% (127, or 58%); 0.2% (52, or 24%); 0.3% (39, or 18%) 
  2. If the Academic Staff create a similar organization, should the Faculty organization seek to collaborate with it? 
    • YES (205, or 67%); NO (56, or 18%); NO ANSWER (44, or 15%) 

B. Faculty Senate Authorization and additional progress in 2011

The Faculty Senate (at the May 2011 meeting) passed FD 2793, which authorized a plan to create and activate a non-profit [501 (c)(6)] corporation called the Milwaukee Organization Representing the Faculty Senate (MORFS, Inc.). 

However, the process was not able to proceed as expected; specifically, the Governor’s office did not respond to requests asking to authorize MORFS to receive funds from UW-Milwaukee faculty through voluntary payroll deductions.  Nevertheless, the UC did follow through and create the non-profit [501 (c)(6)] corporation called the Milwaukee Organization Representing the Faculty Senate (MORFS, Inc.) in 2015.  MORFS, Inc. has been kept up-to-date and ready to be activated since that time. 

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