SB 79

This bill requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

to monitor the extension and outreach hours of state specialists, which the bill

defines as faculty or academic staff at UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls,

UW-Stevens Point, or UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences with

appointments partially or fully funded through the Division of Extension at

UW-Madison in the field of applied agricultural research.

Under current law, the Board of Regents must develop and implement a plan

that includes policies for monitoring teaching workloads of faculty and instructional

academic staff, including requirements for reporting the number of hours each

spends teaching. These teaching hours reported are included, as aggregate data, in

an accountability report submitted to the governor and legislature and are included,

as aggregate data or individually reported data, directly or by link on the

accountability dashboard portion of the UW System's Internet site.

The bill requires the Board of Regents to also develop and implement a plan

that includes policies for monitoring extension and outreach workloads of state

specialists. The bill also requires the Board of Regents to include aggregate data on

state specialists' extension and outreach hours in the accountability report and on

the accountability dashboard described above.