The short version
Porter is a public university inside the fictional Universities of Wesconsin system. A system-level Board of Regents sets system-wide policy, approves tuition ranges, and hires each campus’s chancellor; the chancellor and the campus’s own leadership team run Porter day to day within that policy. Faculty Senate and Staff Senate hold shared governance over academic and workplace matters; Student Senate represents students in all of it.
The Board of Regents
The system Board of Regents meets several times a year, in public session with minutes posted afterward, and sets the policies that apply to every system campus — tuition bands, degree-approval rules, system-wide compliance. It does not run Porter’s daily operations; that authority is delegated to the chancellor.
The chancellor and cabinet
Porter’s chancellor reports to the system and leads a cabinet of vice chancellors covering academics (the provost), student affairs, finance and administration, and advancement. See the leadership page for who currently holds each seat and how to request a meeting.
Shared governance
Faculty Senate votes on curriculum, degree requirements, and academic policy; Staff Senate represents non-instructional staff on workplace policy; Student Senate holds seats on most university committees and controls the student-activity fee budget. Any of the three can bring a proposal to the chancellor’s cabinet, and major policy changes typically route through whichever senate it affects before taking effect.
Where a specific decision gets made
Curriculum and grading: Faculty Senate and your college. Tuition and system policy: the Board of Regents. A building, a parking rule, a dining contract: the vice chancellor for finance and administration. A conduct case: the Dean of Students. If you are not sure whose call something is, the directory’s org chart link routes you to the right office.
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.