Starting next fall, full-time faculty and instructional academic staff at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee will need to teach at least one course per semester and a minimum of 12 credit hours each school year. Employees at the other 11 state universities face higher requirements.
All credits for general education courses must also be transferable and satisfy general education requirements across the universities by September.
Sen. Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, said she likes that students will have better predictability in how credits transfer.
“But I do think this is a slippery slope of monkeying around in the university system, and we don’t really have any business there,” said Hesselbein, Democrats’ leader in the Senate.
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“My hope is that as we move forward we can also do this with other opportunities to have credit transfers,” Vos said. “Right now, it’s only those (general education) requirements. But if you take accounting at Whitewater, I don’t know why it shouldn’t be accounting at Stout.”