POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH On June 18, the executive committee of AAUP Local 6741 of the American Federation of Teachers issued the following statement on University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s proposal to close the College of General Studies In the United States, the university is in crisis. There is no starker evidence of this emergency than recent…
BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MILWAUKEE AAUP CHAPTER We are reposting this statement, published today on the UWM AAUP chapter website, with permission of the chapter. On Friday, May 3, UWM’s administration submitted a proposal to close the College of General Studies (CGS) and lay off all of its employees. This program discontinuance proposal is the…
BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MILWAUKEE AAUP As faculty, staff, and students prepare to return to a newly re-opened campus this fall, UWM AAUP reminds us of the centrality of academic freedom and democratic governance in ensuring our collective safety and public health. The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. Faculty, staff, and students must be free…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following resolution was adopted unanimously on February 15 by the Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. WHEREAS UW System President Ray Cross has publicly declared his support for shared governance, promising at one point on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus to resign his position if he failed to protect…
Yesterday in my post reporting on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty’s unanimous vote of no-confidence in UW system President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents I noted that the vote came less than two hours after Gov. Scott Walker issued a statement — titled “University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty fuss leaves out important facts”…
The parade of “no confidence” votes directed against University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents marched on today as an overflow meeting of nearly 300 UW-Milwaukee faculty voted unanimously to approve a resolution of no confidence similar to ones previously passed at the Madison, LaCrosse, and River Falls campuses. UW Eau…
The following statement was released today by the AAUP’s University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chapter. UWM AAUP Calls on the Board of Regents to Support and Sustain UWM’s Research and Access Missions The eyes of the country are on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) this week as the campus hosts a Democratic presidential debate. What will UWM…