UW-Madison worklife survey finds budget cuts shook morale of 91% of faculty

Morale among faculty at UW-Madison was shaken in 2015 over budget cuts, according to a survey by the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute.

Just over 91 percent of respondents said that budget cuts – as UW-Madison tightened its belt to reflect a $250 million cut in state funding to the UW-System in the 2015-2017 budget – decreased their enthusiasm for working at the school.

Spending cuts had a significantly more negative impact on faculty’s enthusiasm for working at UW-Madison than did modifications to tenure in the UW System, another controversial change to working conditions.

Some 71.5 percent of respondents to the WISELI survey reported that new faculty tenure policies, which give the university more leeway to lay off faculty for financial reasons, lowered their morale.

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