11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
University Club

Guest Speaker
Barbara Lawton, former Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor

Barbara Lawton now chairs the Wisconsin Arts Board, serves on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, and has worked with UW-Madison to establish the Green Entrepreneurship Seminar. Her extensive accomplishments have earned her wide recognition both locally and nationally.
Come join your MASA colleagues for information, networking, business, and good food and company.

Registration
Register here. Registration deadline: Wednesday, May 9th

Payment Options
Because we are trying to make annual membership dues more convenient for our members, we are including payment options that allow for concurrent lunch payment and membership renewal.

1. Current MASA Members (including all who attended this year’s Academic Staff Institute):

• Lunch: $6.00
• Lunch and membership renewal for 2012-13: $16

2. Non-members:

• Lunch: $12
• Lunch and membership renewal for 2012-13: $16

MASA Business Item
We will be voting to amend MASA By-law Article IV, deleting reference to payroll deduction as that is no longer an option members have for dues payment (this may change in the future).

Learn More.  Get Involved.
http://hrdesign.wisc.edu

What Is It?
The Human Resources Design Project is a campuswide effort to build a new, more effective University of Wisconsin-Madison personnel system to better serve the needs of the university, its employees and the citizens of Wisconsin.  The new system is slated to take effect July 1, 2013.

Why Should I Pay Attention? 
The HR Design Project will affect most employees on campus, either directly or indirectly.  Knowledge is power, and YOU are your own best advocate.

What Can I Do? 
Learn More. Get Involved.  It’s not too late!

Beginning April 9th: Go to hrdesign.wisc.edu and read the preliminary recommendations from the seven phase 1 work teams.

April 11: Participate in web chat* 10:00-11:00a.m.

April 12: Participate in web chat** 1:30-2:30p.m.

April 17:  Attend Campus Engagement Session^  9:00-11:00 a.m., Varsity Hall 2, Union South

April 18:  Attend Campus Engagement Session^ 11:00p.m. – ??^^, Health Sciences Learning Center

April 19:  Attend Campus Engagement Session^ 1:30-3:30 p.m., Health Sciences Learning Center

April 24: Attend Campus Engagement Session^ 11:00p.m. – ??^^^, Memorial Union

Any Time: Read about the process, hear from key project managers, and read what other employees have said so far at hrdesign.wisc.edu

* The topic of the 4/11 web chat will be the recommendations from the teams that focused on employee categories, benefits, recruitment and assessment, and diverse workforce.

** The 4/12 web chat will cover the recommendations of the compensation, competencies and job titles work teams.
^ Feedback to Phase 1 draft recommendations.
^^ Focused session with 2nd & 3rd shift staff. Offered in English, Tibetan & Hmong.
^^^ Focused session with 2nd & 3rd shift staff. Offered in English and Spanish.

See the Chihuly glass sculpture, arena, inside of a suite, practice pavilion, coaches’ offices, strength and conditioning center, and study area.

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Kohl Center (meet inside Gate B)

Download here.

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Dairy Cattle Center, 1815 Linden

Learn about this important campus center, which houses 88 milking cows in a tie-stall bar, and see the afternoon milking.

Union South, TITU
8:30 a.m – 2:30 p.m.

This event is hosted by the Madison Academic Staff Association (MASA), Provost’s Office, Academic Staff Executive Committee (ASEC), and the Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff.

REGISTRATION

• Please register here. Fee is $10; lunch is included.
• All new ASPRO members will receive free registration to the Academic Staff Institute. To become a member of ASPRO, please visit www.aspro.net. New members should register for the conference but not pay the conference fee.
• Registration Deadline: Friday, March 9, 2012
• Payment is due at close of registration with exception of new ASPRO members. No cancellations after March 9.
• The registration fee includes free membership for the remainder of the year to the Madison Academic Staff Association (MASA).
• Membership includes invitations to tours and events as  well as reduced price for the luncheon in May.

SPEAKERS

• Jon Erpenbach, State Senator, Keynote
• Jim Wells, Grad School, “Engaging Your Strengths”
• Dawn Crim, School of Education, “Striving for Work/Life Balance: Practical Tips to Get You Through the Week”
• Don Schutt, Office of Human Resource Development, “Working Together to Achieve Shared Goals”
• Daniel Okoli, University Architect, “Campus Design”
• Harry Webne-Behrmen, Office of Human Resources, “Negotiating Difficult Conversations and Advocating for Yourself”
• Gwen Drury, Community Partnerships Outreach (CPO) Staff Network/Division of Continuing Studies, “Wisconsin Idea:  Attitude, Not Platitude”
• Kathleen Paris, Office of Quality Improvement, “Communicating with The Clover Practice”
• Several Sessions On The HR Redesign Project

Study Pub, 8th Floor, Fluno Center
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Join us for drinks and appetizers!

Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Biotechnology Center (Meet in Room 1360)

Tour the center’s facilities (DNA sequencing and synthesis, gene expression, peptide synthesis, mass spectroscopy) and genetics lab.  Participate in a hands-on DNA science activity.

Please join other MASA members for a curator-led tour of the Zoological Museum. See the museum’s collection and talk with interns who will be preparing zoological specimens for exhibition.

Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Fourth floor of Noland Hall

Laura A. Halverson Monahan, Curator of Collections for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum, leads a tour of the facility for MASA members.