Catching up on a couple higher education-related items worth noting …** Raise your hand if youâ??re in favor of a “smart furlough” plan. Many on the UW-Madison campus — especially science researchers, who are paid mostly with federal grants or private funds, and professors, one-fifth of whom derive their salaries from non-state sources — still are upset they are being forced to take furloughs.
The topic will be discussed once again Monday afternoon at UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate meeting at Bascom Hall.