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Like many universities throughout the country, UW-Madison is undergoing a restructuring of its human resources policies, aiming to make them more cost-effective by stimulating higher productivity-- bottom-line thinking encouraged and facilitated by the Wisconsin Legislature. Among the planned changes in the new  HR Design  plan, released last Friday, is a shift to use of " new compensation structures...with market data... gathered to inform compensation decisions .  Pay adjustments will reflect a broad range of factors (e.g., market, equity, performance) within defined parameters, and will be based on objective performance evaluations...These decisions will have to be made through fair, objective and transparent performance evaluations. Supervisors will be provided with training on how to conduct effective and bias-free performance evaluations and how to ensure that the supervisors who report to them are doing the same with their staff. Deans and ...

Are students attending for-profit institutions getting their money's worth, especially compared to attending community college? I've tackled this one before . Now, another study commissioned by a for-profit has appeared, claiming to fill gaps in our knowledge. Since I only have a powerpoint presentation of the findings to review, and my opinion is pretty-well expressed in other media coverage , I'll just hit a few notes I've not yet seen mentioned elsewhere. 1. The authors want to claim that the for-profit sector is outpacing community colleges' capacity for enrollment expansion. To back this up, they compare recent enrollment growth in the two sectors. But they fail to mention the very different levels of overall enrollment --community colleges enrolled approximately 1.2 million more students in 2009 than were enrolled in 2007-- in comparison there were 1.4 million students total in for-profit institutions in 2007. Growth is affected by the starting point, a...