[Kirkwood]

“Second, there’s the far more worrisome Section 39, which addresses the other way in which tenured faculty can lose their jobs: termination of their position or layoff in the event of a bona fide financial emergency,” Professor Vanness writes. “Section 39 strikes the language ‘when a financial emergency exists’ from current law and replaces it with the alarmingly vague standard ‘deemed necessary due to a budget or program decision regarding program discontinuance, curtailment, modification, or redirection.’ Now, we’re talking ‘F=Failure.’”

The phrase "financial emergency" is actually more vague. Is it an emergency at the state level? Universtiy level? Department level? What actually constitutes an emergency?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It means that dip-@i$t courses in social sciences, etc can get the ax because they’re useless and cost the university, so they’re gone.

Gov. Walker’s and the Republican legislature are giving UW the power to clean house.

Universities across the country are watching closely.