University of Wisconsin System professors and instructors are growing frustrated as they struggle to peel away layers of confusion over how they’ll cut 16 days of work in the next two years without disrupting instruction and research.
Lawmakers approved Gov. Jim Doyle’s plan requiring all state employees to take 16 unpaid furlough days, the equivalent of a 3 percent pay cut, between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2011, to help fill the state’s budget hole.