Section 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.

History: Cr. Register, June, 1975, No. 234 , eff. 7-1-75; r. (1) (f), (i) and (j), renum. (1) (intro.), (1) (a) to (e), (g), and (h) to be (intro.), (4), (14), (13), (16), (5), (8) and (1) and am. (intro.), (5), (8) and (16), cr. (2), (3), (6), (7), (9) to (12) and (15), Register, January, 1986, No. 361 , eff. 2-1-86; 2015 Wis. Act 330 ss. 8 , 20 : am. (4), (5), (13), (15) Register April 2016 No. 724 , eff. 5-1-16.