Posted on 06/01/2015 1:31:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The privileged class is whining as they may actually have to work if tenure is done away with.
If only...
LOL - 'top faculty'? The PC pushers who should have been selling shoes in K-Mart? Gimme a break. Tenure was designed to protect free speech - those teaching today attempt to shut down speech. Group think types are a dime a dozen...
Like many government employees, government professors often run side-businesses, writing books for extra income and performing consulting work. Too many of our brightest people fritter away their gifts in the world of brain dead government employment. Government needs to exit whats become an education resort business so the free market can work.
“Tenure was designed to protect free speech - those teaching today attempt to shut down speech.”
Succinct and excellent.
>>After reviewing this statement and reading over her twitter page, I am of the opinion that she should, indeed, ‘move on’. She’s nothing more than a Lena Dunham lookalike who is a political activist. Her Twitter Page has H-O-P-E spanned across it. Frankly, she’s one of the last people I’d want teaching and researching educational policy.<<
Put another way: It’s already working.
What Walker and the WI GOP are doing is, first, eliminate provisions of state law that prevent administrators from taking actions they want to take and, second, cut the budget and let the administrators decide where to implement the cuts.
By removing the provisions of state law that were in the way, they neutralize the administrators’ common complaint that “our hands are tied,” and let them do their jobs.
Of course, it’s also payback for the liberal UW System fighting Walker and the WI GOP tooth and nail for years. As I’ve said many times in here, Walker goes after the Left’s funding sources, which are almost always our tax dollars.
Yes.
He’s letting the university make the cuts - get rid of redundant, unnecessary and useless classes and teachers, etc.
>>But many professors and other observers said the roller coaster hit a new low Friday afternoon when the state Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee approved, by a vote of 12-4, the elimination of tenure from state statute, along with adding new limits to the faculty role in shared governance and procedures for eliminating faculty members in good standing outside of financial exigency.<<
I wanna have his baby! And I’m a GUY!
What’s not to love?
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