Please welcome the winners of our spring election:
The central payroll office is in the process of fixing an error that occurred in processing last month’s payroll.
In April, central payroll accidentally deducted MASA annual dues, even though they had already been deducted for the year last fall (shown on 11/1/10 earnings statements). When MASA learned about this deduction, our Membership Coordinator, Greg Jakubczak, contacted the HRS Service Center, and they started working on the problem. You should get an email from someone in your college or department HR/Payroll office that explains how the $10 will be reimbursed to you. If you don’t see this problem resolved in the next week, though, please contact Mary Ray at mbray@wisc.edu.
“The spirit of participation in university affairs by all interested groups has a long and honored history, but formal statutory recognition of governance rights for the academic staff was necessary to institutionalize participation and the process of integrating into that spirit continues down to this day” (A Vision Shared, http://acstaff.wisc.edu/faq/VisionShared.aspx)
In a session at the 2011 Academic Staff Institute titled “Roots of Academic Staff Governance,” John Mather, Linda Newman, and Bill Steffenhagen, emeritus UW-Madison academic staff members, spoke about the challenges academic staff faced before shared governance became a reality 25 years ago.
To see a time line of campus governance on the UW-Madison campus, please visit: http://www.grad.wisc.edu/admin/outreach/staffhistory.xlsx
If you missed the MASA/ASEC panel on academic staff unit clarification on Nov. 30, you may now view video of the event and download a handout (use links below).
Download Unit Clarification Brownbag Handout
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently unveiled a web portal that highlights the diversity of the nearly 7,000 professionals who make significant contributions in research, teaching and service at UW-Madison.
The new website, http://acstaff.wisc.edu, features news about and profiles of UW-Madison academic staff members, who serve the university in positions ranging from scientists, physicians and engineers to educators, advisers, administrators, attorneys and more. A short video, “We are partners,” introduces several academic staff members and presents an overview of the myriad ways in which they contribute on the UW-Madison campus.
View the full press release.
