University of Wisconsin System faculty will get a 5 percent raise over the next two years – along with many other state employees – but administrators won’t get a penny more until System officials “get their act together” regarding questionable compensation and leave policies, lawmakers said Tuesday.
“I think the university doesn’t quite get how ticked off elected officials are in this state about what we’ve been reading in the last month,” Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, said before a legislative committee that sets pay levels for state employees. The committee later voted to deny the raises to administrators until the university completes an internal investigation.