What Staff Senate covers
Elected representatives from across the university raise concerns and proposals on working conditions, professional development funding, and policies that affect staff specifically rather than faculty or students — a parallel channel to Faculty Senate, not a subset of it.
How it connects upward
Staff Senate leadership meets regularly with the Chancellor's cabinet and can bring an issue directly to that table; like Faculty Senate, its role is advisory, but in practice a well-documented Staff Senate proposal is rarely ignored outright.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Represents: Non-faculty staff across every division. Meetings: Monthly, open to any staff member. Role: Advisory to the Chancellor's cabinet. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.