Friday, September 15, 2017

Budget committee revives plan to track UW professors' teaching hours - NICO SAVIDGE, Wisconsin State-Journal

Lawmakers on the state’s budget-writing committee have revived a controversial plan to track how much time professors in the University of Wisconsin System spend teaching — five months after they initially rejected the proposal. The budget provision requires the UW System to develop a plan for measuring the teaching hours of faculty and academic staff, and to reward those employees “who teach more than a standard academic workload.” Data on teaching hours would have to be included in reports the System sends to the governor and Legislature, and published on UW’s online “accountability dashboard.” http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/budget-committee-revives-plan-to-track-uw-professors-teaching-hours/article_d1108f6b-7a78-5cb4-a30c-69785dbf6180.html