University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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A Key to Confusion Various Acronyms, Organizations, and Terms Associated With the University of Wisconsin System by kris norgard ACADEMIC FACULTY Those faculty without rank. They are not eligible for tenure. Librarians, researchers, and Audio-Visual people are some of those that fall in this category. CLASSIFIED FACULTY Those faculty who have rank, that is Instructors, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Professors. They are eligable for tenure. FACULTY SENATE Faculty elected representatives from all schools at U W-0. They ’ ve little actual weight in governance but rather give advice and opinions. FOUR YEAR DEGREE PROGRAM Will be offered at seven former WSU campuses, relegating them to “Second Class Status, ’ ’ as UW system campuses offering only bacalaureate degrees. GRADUATE CENTERS Eau Claire and Oshkosh will offer several Master’s Degree programs as the Board of Regents designate them as Grad Centers in the UW merged system. % NEA. (National Education Association,) has 45,000 members in Wisconsin and 1,200,000 in the nation. Is of interest now in terms of its power and experience with collective bargaining for teachers. Has invited UW-0 to join. 21

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united council president, randy nilsestuen The Oshkosh Student Association joined United Council this fall. The United Council of University of Wisconsin Student Governments has consolidated the student governments of ten UW system campuses to work on protecting and enlarging student right and interests. It was organized in 1960, but gained the membership of Milwaukee. Madison, and Oshkosh just this September. Randy Nilsestuen, 22, president of the expanded United Council this Year, is concerned with two student issues now, the UW Merger bill’s difinition of student responsibility and the user fees proposed by Governor Lucey last January. The member campuses meet monthly. Their goal is to work within the system to get a voice for students and to provide them with avenues for change. Nilsestuen is pusing for a student advisory body to the UW Board of Regents. This would be beneficial to UW-Oshkosh as we are distant from these top UW System executives as well as the Legislature down in Madison. Randy Nilsestuen appears on behalf of student interests at legislative hearings and maintains extensive contacts with legislators. UW officials, and faculty groups. He opposes the new user fees, and got rid of the sales tax on dorm food, saving the student 16 to 20 dollars a year. He pushes the Nilsestuen Leeds University Students by kris norgard provision in the Merger Bill giving the students primary responsibility for developing policies concerning student life, services ana interests. Former treasurer and chairman of United Council and a member of MISC (Merger Implementation Study Committee, formed to see its provisions implemented in UW System Campuses), Randy Nilsestuen is well qualified to troubleshoot for the 133,000 UW System students. He is completing work on his History major in Madison where the UW legislative and administrative action is, though he formerly attended River Falls. A calm and friendly person, he usually accomplishes what he sets out to do, especially if it has to do with students getting a fair shake and a piece of the action, to quote the State Journal. Nilsestuen offers UW System students an alternative to the action in the streets of past years, to the angry and alienated student voice in the media. United Council’s action and influence offers a constructive and viable alternative to either campus violence or campus apathy, whichever afflict the various UW System campuses, n Quiver 20

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SPECIAL MISSION CENTERS Stout and Green Bay campuses will offer a few unique graduate programs conferring Master’s Degrees. ft STUDENT- FACULTY COALITION Formed last April. Students joined with WEACT to' protest faculty cuts and to help solve the problem affecting the academic quality of UW-O. TAUWF (The Association of University of Wisconsin Faculties,) a relatively powerless independent organization. Has 80 percent (442) of the UW-0 faculty in its membership, nearly 3,000 members state-wide. TENURE After a probationary period, faculty are assured of their academic freedom by being granted retention for an indefinite period. Employment could be ended by incompetence or ‘ ‘moral turpitude.” UNITED COUNCIL (United Council of University of Wisconsin Student Governments.) UW-0 became a member this fall. United Council deals with basic student issues and increases student voice in governance. WEA (Wisconsin Education Association,) is an affiliate of parent NE A. WEACT Now an affiliate of WEA-NE A, power in the form of faculty unionization and collective bargaining is their goal. WFT (Wisconsin Federation of Teachers,) a member of the (f AFL-CIO, wants to get a cut in the action of unionizing UW faculty. It authored itsown Collective Bargaining bill. 22