— PROFS’ top priority. The Board of Regents have requested a pay plan for faculty and academic staff of 5.23% per year for 2007-09. Although a 4.25% pay plan (2% starting July 1, 2006, and 2.25% starting April 1, 2007) along with a competitive salary package of $5 million in the budget, was approved the previous legislature and signed into law, we are still far from our goal of keeping UW-Madison faculty salaries close to the median of the peer schools’ salaries. The governor has included a special faculty Recruitment and Retention package of $10 million in his 2007-09-budget request. (His pay plan will be proposed later this spring).
View graph of pay increases needed to bring faculty salaries to peer group median 1973-2007»
PROFS' Legislative Representative Jack O'Meara and PROFS leaders are currently lobbying Governor Jim Doyle and legislative leaders on the need for a supplemental pay plan. They're telling the state officials that the current 2%/2%/1% pay plan is simply not enough. Read PROFS' testimony to the Legislature's Joint Committee on Employment Relations»
PROFS supports the $122 million in the governor’s budget for the university’s cost-to-continue for 2007-09. The $90 million cut to the UW budge in 2005-06 on top of the $250 million cut in 2003-05, reduced the UW operating budget to bare bones. The cuts need to be made up and increases are needs especially in financial aid, advising, libraries, supplies, and technology.
Maintenance of the state contribution to the (WRS), and expansion of credit for military service, Peace Corps, Vista, and Public Health Service.
