Long-term faculty at UW-Whitewater are getting paid less than newer peers. The Faculty Compensation Committee is requesting that UW-Whitewater address issues of pay compression and inversion through a yearly assessment, and that it adjusts faculty salaries with consideration of their years of service. The committee asks for regular salary adjustments for full-time professors and associate.
WHITEWATER
UW-Whitewater academic programs could be cut under a budget review now underway, slashing course offerings and harming the local economy, the UW-Whitewater Faculty Senate said in a statement this week.
Chancellor Dwight Watson said Thursday that the senateâs estimate of up to 40% of academic programs being identified for cuts is âwoefully inaccurate.â
Tracy Hawkins, chairwoman of the faculty senate, told The Gazette that faculty members fear a repeat of what happened at UW-Stevens Point in 2018, when the chancellor proposed cutting up to 13 degree programs, a plan that was later dropped, or in 2017 at UW-Superior, when 25 programs were suspended.