Wis. Admin. Code Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System UWS 8.02 - Definitions
In this chapter:
(1)
"Academic staff" means professional and administrative personnel other than
faculty with duties, and subject to types of appointments, that are primarily
associated with higher education institutions or their
administration.
(2) "Anything of
value" means any money or property, favor, service, payment, advance,
forbearance, loan, or promise of future employment, but does not include:
(a) Any salary, expenses or other
compensation received by a member of the unclassified staff from the university
for his or her services;
(b) Any
compensation, honoraria or expenses derived from outside activities permitted
under this chapter;
(c) Political
contributions which are reported under ch. 11, Stats.; or
(d) Hospitality extended for a purpose
unrelated to university business.
(3) "Associated," when used with reference to
an organization, means that a person or a member of a person's immediate family
is a director, officer or trustee or owns or controls, directly or indirectly,
and severally or in the aggregate, at least 10% of the outstanding
equity.
(4) "Board" means the Board
of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
(5) "Chancellor" means the chief executive
officer of an institution.
(6)
"Confidential university information" means information relating to university
financial operations or personnel which is obtained from university records or
in the course of official university business and which is not available to the
general public upon request.
(7)
"Contracting personnel" means those persons who are designated in writing by
the chancellor of an institution or the president of the system to negotiate,
review, approve, or sign contracts for the purchase of goods and services on
behalf of an institution, the university system, or the board. The term does
not include persons who do either or both of the following:
(a) Contract only with outside agencies for
research or for services to be performed by the university; or
(b) Negotiate, review, approve or sign only
employment contracts.
(8) "Faculty" means persons who hold the rank
of professor, associate professor, assistant professor or instructor in an
academic department or its functional equivalent in an institution.
(9) "Immediate family" means:
(a) An unclassified staff member's spouse;
and
(b) Any person who receives,
directly or indirectly, more than one half of his or her support from an
unclassified staff member or from whom an unclassified staff member receives,
directly or indirectly, more than one half of his or her support.
(10) "Institution" means any
university or an organizational equivalent designated by the board.
(11) "Limited appointees" means persons
holding special appointments to administrative positions designated in s.
36.17,
Stats., and ch. UWS 15, and who serve at the pleasure of the board or of the
authorized official making the appointment.
(12) "Organization" means any corporation,
partnership, proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, trust or
other legal entity other than an individual or body politic.
(13) "President" means the president of the
University of Wisconsin System.
(14) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
board.
(15) "Unclassified staff" or
"staff members" means faculty, academic staff and limited appointees of the
University of Wisconsin System who are not subject to subch. III of ch. 19,
Stats.
(16) "Vice President" means
system administration officials with the title "Vice President" or other
administrative officers with similar duties.
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