36.12 Student discrimination prohibited.
36.13 Faculty tenure and probationary appointments.
36.14 Wisconsin distinguished professorships.
36.15 Academic staff appointments.
36.17 Limited appointments.
36.19 Other appointments.
36.21 Lapse of appointments.
36.23 Conflict of interest.
36.28 Medical school enrollment.
36.29 Gifts; golf course.
36.31 Coordination with other educational agencies.
36.33 Sale and relocation of agricultural lands.
36.34 Minority student programs.
36.35 Misconduct; campus security.
36.37 Downer Woods and buildings preservation.
36.39 Complimentary and reduced price tickets prohibited.
36.395 Fees for use of facilities.
36.40 Use of animals for research purposes.
36.43 Accommodation of religious beliefs.
36.44 License plate scholarship programs.
36.46 Auxiliary reserves.
36.48 Alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and intervention programs.
36.51 Nutritional improvement for elderly.
36.52 Reimbursement of pay supplements.
36.01
36.01
Statement of purpose and mission. 36.01(1)
(1) The legislature finds it in the public interest to provide a system of higher education which enables students of all ages, backgrounds and levels of income to participate in the search for knowledge and individual development; which stresses undergraduate teaching as its main priority; which offers selected professional graduate and research programs with emphasis on state and national needs; which fosters diversity of educational opportunity; which promotes service to the public; which makes effective and efficient use of human and physical resources; which functions cooperatively with other educational institutions and systems; and which promotes internal coordination and the wisest possible use of resources.
36.01(2)
(2) The mission of the system is to develop human resources, to discover and disseminate knowledge, to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses and to serve and stimulate society by developing in students heightened intellectual, cultural and humane sensitivities, scientific, professional and technological expertise and a sense of purpose. Inherent in this broad mission are methods of instruction, research, extended training and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition. Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.
36.01 History
History: 1973 c. 335.
36.03
36.03
System. There is created in this state a system of institutions of learning to be known as the University of Wisconsin system. The principal office and one university of the system shall be located at or near the seat of state government.
36.03 History
History: 1973 c. 335.
36.05
36.05
Definitions. In this chapter:
36.05(1)
(1) "Academic staff" means professional and administrative personnel with duties, and subject to types of appointments, that are primarily associated with higher education institutions or their administration, but does not include faculty and staff provided under
s. 16.57.
36.05(2)
(2) "Board of regents" or "board" means the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin system.
36.05(3)
(3) "Campus" means the publicly owned or leased buildings and grounds which comprise all or part of a university, a center or the extension.
36.05(4)
(4) "Center" means any one of the 2-year collegiate campuses of the system.
36.05(5)
(5) "Chancellor" means the chief executive of an institution.
36.05(6)
(6) "Classified staff" means all employes of the system other than faculty, academic staff, persons whose employment is a necessary part of their training, student assistants and student hourly help.
36.05(7)
(7) "Extension" means the community outreach, public service and extension services of the system.
36.05(8)
(8) "Faculty" means persons who hold the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor or instructor in an academic department or its functional equivalent in an institution, persons described under
s. 36.13 (4) (c) and such academic staff as may be designated by the chancellor and faculty of the institution.
36.05(9)
(9) "Institution" means any university or an organizational equivalent designated by the board.
36.05(9m)
(9m) "Instructional academic staff" means academic staff members with teaching responsibilities.
36.05(9s)
(9s) "Mainframe" means a large scale, central computer maintained by the board for multipurpose functions.
36.05(10)
(10) "President" means the chief executive of the system.
36.05(11)
(11) "Student" means any person who is registered for study in any institution for the current academic period. For the purpose of administering particular programs or functions involving students, the board shall promulgate rules defining continuation or termination of student status during periods between academic periods.
36.05(12)
(12) "System" means the University of Wisconsin system.
36.05(13)
(13) "University" means any baccalaureate or graduate degree granting institution.
36.07
36.07
Corporate title, officers, meetings, records. 36.07(1)(1)
Corporate status and title. The board and their successors in office shall constitute a body corporate by the name of "Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System".
36.07(2)
(2) Secretary. The board shall appoint a secretary of the board who shall keep a faithful record of all its transactions.
36.07(3)
(3) Treasurer. The state treasurer shall be the treasurer of the board, but the board may appoint other persons to receive other moneys that may be due or remitted from any source.
36.07(4)
(4) Meetings, times, notice. The times for holding the regular annual meeting and such other meetings as are required, and the manner of providing notice for such meetings, shall be determined by the board's bylaws.
36.07(5)
(5) Access to the board. The board shall provide in its operating policies for access to the board by the public, faculty, students and chancellors.
36.07(6)
(6) Meetings and records public. The board meetings shall be open and all records of such meetings and of all proceedings of the board shall be open to inspection in accordance with
subchs. II and
V of ch. 19.
36.09
36.09
Responsibilities. 36.09(1)(a)(a) The primary responsibility for governance of the system shall be vested in the board which shall enact policies and promulgate rules for governing the system, plan for the future needs of the state for university education, ensure the diversity of quality undergraduate programs while preserving the strength of the state's graduate training and research centers and promote the widest degree of institutional autonomy within the controlling limits of system-wide policies and priorities established by the board.
36.09(1)(b)
(b) The board, after public hearing at each institution, shall establish for each institution a mission statement delineating specific program responsibilities and types of degrees to be granted.
36.09(1)(c)
(c) The board shall determine the educational programs to be offered in the system and may discontinue educational programs as it deems necessary.
36.09(1)(d)
(d) The board shall establish policies to guide program activities to ensure that they will be compatible with the missions of the institutions of the system. To this end, the board shall make all reasonable effort to provide night courses.
36.09(1)(e)
(e) The board shall appoint a president of the system; a chancellor for each institution; a dean for each center; the state geologist; the director of the laboratory of hygiene; the director of the psychiatric institute; the state cartographer with the advice of the land information board; and the requisite number of officers, other than the vice presidents, associate vice presidents and assistant vice presidents of the system; faculty; academic staff and other employes and fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under
par. (j) and
ss. 20.923 (4),
(4m) and
(5) and
230.12 (3) (e), the duties and the term of office for each. The board shall fix the salaries, subject to the limitations under
par. (j) and
ss. 20.923 (4),
(4m) and
(5) and
230.12 (3) (e), and the duties for each chancellor, vice president, associate vice president and assistant vice president of the system. No sectarian or partisan tests or any tests based upon race, religion, national origin or sex shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of the employes of the system.
36.09(1)(f)
(f) The board shall delegate to each chancellor the necessary authority for the administration and operation of the institution within the policies and guidelines established by the board. The board may also delegate or rescind other authority to chancellors, committees of the board, administrative officers, members of the faculty and students or such other groups as it deems appropriate.
36.09(1)(gm)
(gm) The board shall not create, except as specifically authorized by the legislature in each instance, any new college, school or its functional equivalent if such college, school or functional equivalent has academic programs at the graduate or professional, post-baccalaureate level.
36.09(1)(gm)1.
1. For the purposes of this paragraph, college or school means an academic unit below the institutional level but above the departmental level, including but not limited to a graduate school, law school, medical school, social work school, architecture school, business school and a public administration school.
36.09(1)(gm)2.
2. For the purposes of this paragraph, a new college or school shall be deemed to have been created if an administrative position of dean or its functional equivalent is established and if a new instructional program, separate and distinct from the programs currently available at that institution, is established.
36.09(1)(gm)3.
3. This paragraph does not apply to the redesignation or reorganization of existing colleges or schools if accomplished through the reclassification of existing positions or the restructuring of existing organizational entities.
36.09(1)(h)
(h) The board shall allocate funds and adopt budgets for the respective institutions giving consideration to the principles of comparable budgetary support for similar programs and equitable compensation for faculty and academic staff with comparable training, experience and responsibilities and recognizing competitive ability to recruit and retain qualified faculty and academic staff. If the board ceases or suspends operation of any institution or center, the appropriations to the board for operation of the institution or center may be utilized by the board for any other purpose authorized by the appropriations within the period for which the appropriations are made.
36.09(1)(hm)
(hm) The board shall develop policies for the purpose of specifically identifying the general purpose revenue and nongeneral purpose revenue funding sources used for noninstructional student activities and for the purpose of governing the allocation of funds to those noninstructional student activities supported by both general purpose and nongeneral purpose revenue.
36.09(1)(i)
(i) Upon recommendation of the president and the administrator of the division of merit recruitment and selection in the department of employment relations, the board and the secretary of employment relations shall jointly adopt general policies governing the designation of positions to be exempt from the classified service as academic staff as defined in
s. 36.15 (1) (a) and
(b). No position in the classified service may be designated as an academic staff position under the general policies unless the secretary of employment relations approves the designation.
36.09(1)(j)
(j) Except where such matters are a subject of bargaining with a certified representative of a collective bargaining unit under
s. 111.91, the board shall establish salaries for persons not in the classified staff prior to July 1 of each year for the next fiscal year, and shall designate the effective dates for payment of the new salaries. In the first year of the biennium, payments of the salaries established for the preceding year shall be continued until the biennial budget bill is enacted. If the budget is enacted after July 1, payments shall be made following enactment of the budget to satisfy the obligations incurred on the effective dates, as designated by the board, for the new salaries, subject only to the appropriation of funds by the legislature and
s. 20.928 (3). This paragraph does not limit the authority of the board to establish salaries for new appointments. The board may not increase the salaries of employes specified in
ss. 20.923 (5) and
(6) (m) and
230.08 (2) (d) under this paragraph unless the salary increase conforms to the proposal as approved under
s. 230.12 (3) (e) or the board authorizes the salary increase to correct salary inequities under
par. (h), to fund job reclassifications or promotions, or to recognize competitive factors. The board may not increase the salary of any position identified in
s. 20.923 (4) (j) or
(4m) under this paragraph unless the salary increase conforms to the compensation plan for executive salary group positions as approved under s.
230.12 (3) (b) or the board authorizes the salary increase to correct a salary inequity or to recognize competitive factors. The granting of salary increases to recognize competitive factors does not obligate inclusion of the annualized amount of the increases in the appropriations under
s. 20.285 (1) for subsequent fiscal bienniums. No later than October 1 of each year, the board shall report to the joint committee on finance and the departments of administration and employment relations concerning the amounts of any salary increases granted to recognize competitive factors, and the institutions at which they are granted, for the 12-month period ending on the preceding June 30.
36.09(1)(k)1.1. The board shall, with respect to academic staff, correct pay inequities based on gender or race.
36.09(1)(k)2.a.
a. Establish and maintain job categories in which to place academic staff positions. The job categories shall be described in sufficient detail to enable the board to comply with
subd. 1.
36.09(1)(k)2.b.
b. Establish and maintain pay ranges, each of which has a minimum and a maximum rate of pay and, using the job evaluation system developed by the secretary of employment relations, assign the job categories established under
subd. 2. a. to those pay ranges. This
subd. 2. b. does not apply to appointments under
s. 36.13 (4).
36.09(1)(k)2.c.
c. Submit the job categories and pay ranges established under
subd. 2. a. and
b. to the secretary of employment relations for review and approval. In reviewing the job categories and pay ranges, the secretary of employment relations shall determine whether the board complied with
subd. 1. in establishing the job categories and pay ranges.
36.09(1)(k)2.d.
d. Submit a request for any change in the job categories or the pay ranges established under
subd. 2. a. and
b. to the secretary of employment relations for review and approval. In reviewing a request for such a change, the secretary of employment relations shall determine whether the requested change requires the board to comply with
subd. 1. The secretary of employment relations shall annually report to the joint committee on employment relations regarding any approved changes in the job categories or pay ranges.
36.09(1)(L)
(L) The board shall possess all powers necessary or convenient for the operation of the system except as limited in this chapter.
36.09(2)
(2) The president. The president shall be president of all the faculties and shall be vested with the responsibility of administering the system under board policies and shall direct a central administration which shall assist the board and the president in establishing system-wide policies in monitoring, reviewing and evaluating these policies, in coordinating program development and operation among institutions, in planning the programmatic, financial and physical development of the system, in maintaining fiscal control and compiling and recommending educational programs, operating budgets and building programs for the board. The president shall appoint each vice president, associate vice president and assistant vice president of the system. The president shall fix the term of office for each vice president, associate vice president and assistant vice president of the system.
36.09(3)(a)(a) The chancellors shall be the executive heads of their respective faculties and institutions and shall be vested with the responsibility of administering board policies under the coordinating direction of the president and be accountable and report to the president and the board on the operation and administration of their institutions. Subject to board policy the chancellors of the institutions in consultation with their faculties shall be responsible for designing curricula and setting degree requirements; determining academic standards and establishing grading systems; defining and administering institutional standards for faculty peer evaluation and screening candidates for appointment, promotion and tenure; recommending individual merit increases; administering associated auxiliary services; and administering all funds, from whatever source, allocated, generated or intended for use of their institutions.
36.09(3)(b)
(b) The chancellor may designate a person as provost, to act as chief executive officer of the institution in the chancellor's absence, if the person currently holds a limited appointment as vice chancellor, associate chancellor, assistant chancellor, associate vice chancellor or assistant vice chancellor. The chancellor may not create an additional administrative position for the purpose of this paragraph.
36.09(4)
(4) Faculty. The faculty of each institution, subject to the responsibilities and powers of the board, the president and the chancellor of such institution, shall be vested with responsibility for the immediate governance of such institution and shall actively participate in institutional policy development. As such, the faculty shall have the primary responsibility for academic and educational activities and faculty personnel matters. The faculty of each institution shall have the right to determine their own faculty organizational structure and to select representatives to participate in institutional governance.
