weekly meetings

No meeting due to weather.

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that he attended the Faculty Reps meeting last week. The pay plan, Program Monitoring Policy, a new Teacher Education Task Force, the UW-Whitewater Chancellor search, Title and Compensation Review, and PTR were discussed. A revision… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that he will attend the Faculty Reps meeting this coming Friday; the PTR process will be discussed at that meeting. Christine Roberson attended and answered questions about PTR cases that have gone to the Divisional… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that he met with Chancellor Mone earlier in the day and discussed the AAUP resolution regarding program productivity monitoring. They have also identified a new appointee for the Chancellor’s Advisory Task Force on LGTBQ+ Issues,… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that UW System President Ray Cross will attend the January 24th Faculty Senate meeting; the Rules Committee will amend the agenda for the meeting to facilitate a question and answer period with President Cross. The… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that our R1 status has officially been renewed. He attended the Faculty Reps meeting last week, at which the Program Productivity Monitoring process was discussed. At that meeting, UW System President Ray Cross discussed the… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that the Provost is launching a search for the new Director of Libraries, which will proceed similarly to a Dean search. The Board of Regents (BOR) approved the MA in African Diaspora Studies and the… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that he will be attending the Board of Regents (BOR) meeting in LaCrosse later this week. The BOR will be considering the UWS proposal for a pay plan and salary increases. UC Chair O’Connor will… Read More

UC Chair Kris O’Connor reported that the Chancellor’s Expanded Cabinet met and discussed the rollout of the new UW System reference check hiring policy. The Chancellor reported that the Higher Education Regional Alliance (HERA) received a $500k grant to increase… Read More

Provost Johannes Britz attended the meeting. UC discussed with the Provost a request from the chair of the Awards Committee for limited travel support for teaching observations at UWM-Waukesha and UWM-Washington County. The Northwestern Data Sciences Endowed Professor search will… Read More