{"id":3151,"date":"2026-02-06T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/policy\/?post_type=library&#038;p=3151"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:43:20","slug":"history-of-steps-already-taken-at-uw-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"library","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/policy\/library\/authorization-for-voluntary-faculty-contributions-to-morfs\/history-of-steps-already-taken-at-uw-milwaukee\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Steps Already Taken at UW-Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-results-from-the-faculty-survey-in-2011\">A. Results from the Faculty survey in 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Faculty Senate (at the April 21, 2011 meeting) authorized the UC to conduct an advisory on-line survey of the faculty.&nbsp; A total of 305 faculty (roughly 35%) responded to the survey between April 22<sup>nd<\/sup> and May 6<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The results from the three individual questions are shown below:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do you support the Faculty Senate creating an organization to provide a public voice for faculty concerns?&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>YES (218, or 71%); NO (87, or 29%)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The \u201cYES\u201d responses (218) are 25% of the total number of UW-Milwaukee Faculty (874).<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The following questions were optional:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is the maximum (as a percentage of salary) you would be willing to voluntarily contribute to this organization?&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Of those answering YES to Question #1:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>0.1% (127, or 58%); 0.2% (52, or 24%); 0.3% (39, or 18%)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the Academic Staff create a similar organization, should the Faculty organization seek to collaborate with it?&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>YES (205, or 67%); NO (56, or 18%); NO ANSWER (44, or 15%)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-b-faculty-senate-authorization-and-additional-progress-in-2011\">B. Faculty Senate Authorization and additional progress in 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Faculty Senate (at the May 2011 meeting) passed FD 2793, which authorized a plan to create and activate a non-profit [501 (c)(6)] corporation called the Milwaukee Organization Representing the Faculty Senate (MORFS, Inc.).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the process was not able to proceed as expected; specifically, the Governor\u2019s office did not respond to requests asking to authorize MORFS to receive funds from UW-Milwaukee faculty through voluntary payroll deductions.&nbsp; Nevertheless, the UC did follow through and create the non-profit [501 (c)(6)] corporation called the Milwaukee Organization Representing the Faculty Senate (MORFS, Inc.) in 2015.&nbsp; MORFS, Inc. has been kept up-to-date and ready to be activated since that time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-buttons--full\">\n<a class=\"uwm-c-button uwm-c-button--full uwm-u-mb-20\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/policy\/library\/authorization-for-voluntary-faculty-contributions-to-morfs\/\" rel=\"\">Back to Policy<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-block-otp-nav \"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"parent":3145,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-3151","library","type-library","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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