Petitioners Receive Response from HR
At 3:51 pm, I received the following letter from UW-Madison Human Resources Director Bob Lavigna in response to the Change.Org petition. The full text follows. I have underlined key sentences since it is rather long and inserted with ** some comments of my own. I am very pleased with this display of engagement on the part of the administration and shared governance units, and hope you will agree with me that this is a significant step forward. On Wisconsin! November 2, 2012 Dear UW-Madison colleagues: I am writing in response to the October 30 petition asking me to, “… issue a list of written assurances regarding all planned significant changes to the Human Resources Design Strategic Plan on which the Faculty Senate will vote on Monday, November 5, 2012.” First, I want to outline where we are in the process of finalizing the HR Design Strategic Plan, and what will occur as we move forward. On September 21, we posted the plan for campus-wide review and comment. S...