[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Wisconsin Idea is the real bailiwick here. It's what the entrenched socialists at the UW (and other universities, the Democratic Party (socialists) and the msm) are working to protect - the source of progressive thought, indoctrination, legislation and media activism, begun there 100 years ago.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Walker and Unions at battle again.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[WHBates]

Well the very concept of tenure is pretty crazy.

[exDemMom]

“Our strong history of academic freedom through faculty tenure has protected education in the UW System from political conflict and corruption for decades, ensuring that higher learning in Wisconsin can pursue the truth wherever it might lead.”

I guess this guy Leson has not spent much time observing education in universities, even though he is a professor. Once you get away from the hard sciences and mathematics departments at universities, they are extremely politicized. They push the leftist agenda relentlessly, to the point where students who do not toe the socialist line are shunned and harassed, and may not get an education. The current socialist-heavy environment of most campuses is hardly conducive to the pursuit of truth that Leson mentioned.

True, I am only familiar with MD and CA universities, but I do not think WI universities would be any different.

[Cowboy Bob]

A Prestident Walker could simply sign an executive order and eliminate tenure nationwide.

[1010RD]

They need their filthy lucre or they won’t infect your kids with Marxist thought. Plus, ‘cut to the bone’ to a liberal means there’s still a ton of fat.

[Montana_Sam]

With his previous labor reforms, unions will likely become one of his main advisories.

I expect the writer meant "adversaries". And, so we can hope. Public sector unions are an abomination.

[Popman]

..remove academic protections for professors such as teacher tenure.

Unless this happens across the country, academic education will remain in the grip of the Socialist and Marxist...

We literally have 100,000's of professionals in the workforce that have actual real life experience that could be teachers, professors to give their students an actual education instead of anti-american indoctrination...