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

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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

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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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by kris norgard - c -, y ? H?r j5P2» GrwV,061 775 7 . Uh ter ' ° b ££ cSf?5ffS 4gft, Vs Vs - gi'H M y ckJ ctlon. SKSrfiSfr '■• “ m iou yfk kV EI m •« ., —. -, - -S3 E® » 5e c. !fem arm er e Z 2 M 5 e AP Ss 5 £' «t - This being my first year away from Madison I am homesick for the fun and general hell-raising like dope smoke-ins, taking over State Street for a pedestrian mall, and protesting imperialist U.S. actions in Indo-China. Tear gas, police brutality, and street action are now only fond memories. So naturally, paging through old Advance-Titans I was drawn to headlines like Campus Coalition Fights Cuts, Faculty Unites to Protect Rights, “Faculty Defies Administration, et cetera. It seems that last spring, the controversy was close to home. UW-0 had the budget cut, and faculty, tenured and non-tenured, were fired to cut costs. Hasty action by WEACT (not an acronym but a declaration of intent) and a Student-Faculty Coalition resulted in some reconsideration of where the budget should be cut. Chancellor Guiles was in the hot seat. Franklin Utech, chairman of the Art Department and President of WEACT headed the actions taken. Utech is not a wild-eyed radical. He is very easy to talk to and is idealistic about the whole philosophy of higher education. Professor Utech sees the necessity of faculty unionization and collective bargaining. You can’t let the administration have the faculty over the barrel, that certainly isn’t academic freedom. Every time you have to economize, knock a teacher or researcher off the payroll, maybe even close a department, tnai certainly will not enhance the academic quality oi UW-O. But a unionized faculty might strike! All my tuition down the drain. I went to hear Don Krahn, Director of Field Services for WEA-NEA speak about collective bargaining on September 12. Collective bargaining is going to oe a reality. You can’t hide your head in the sand like an ostrich, it isn’t going away. Three bills have been introduced in the State Legislature. Don Krahn quietly but emphatically pointed out that WEA-NEA is a powerful organization with resources to fight the public school teachers battles in the courts and in the Legislature. If we don’t join their union, we can have a hassle getting a decent cut of the State budget for education. If we’re not with them, we’re against them. Professional pride is keeping faculty from unionizing. Labor unionizes for pay, professors will have to unionize to have a voice in governance and in priorities in the budget. B 23