Wisconsin is now the lowest by a substantial amount. It was stressed that part of the cause is that a good share of the money in our state budget is for tax relief and for prisons. It was requested that faculty members contact their legislators to tell them they would like a larger budget for UW-System. They might also mention that with regard to prisons, there is really no data driving this continual prison expansion in the state of Wisconsin. This expenditure comes right home to us, not just in our raises, but is already showing up in our budget for classified staff salaries, supplies and capital budget.
Some campuses continue to use social security numbers as identifiers for students and faculty.
This is probably going to be ended by legislation. One of the problems a number of students have complained about is the posting of grades using social security numbers. We must be careful not to do this. Most system schools take their inequity money from salary savings. He noted that almost all said inequity problems were handled by the colleges and not at the university level.