Posted on 08/27/2015 12:31:07 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Curious move on Walker’s part. It isn’t just liberals who like state universities. Ask Tom Corbett how messing with Penn State (in different ways and over a different issue, of course) went for him.
Well since Walker doesn’t have a college degree why would he appreciate getting one?
Trump’s campaign slogan: Make America Great Again.
Walker’s campaign slogan: Protecting America From College Professors.
:-)
Again, what does Wisconsin lose? Prestige, their cut of the pie, what? You state this as a given that the state of Wisconisin loses something of value if a fish scientist moves to another state. As for "discoveries," everything has a cost. Knowng some things about a perch may not be worth the cost. If all universities did was provide "discoveries," you might have a point, but that's a very simplistic way of looking at it.
ironically, research funding for hard sciences, absent any political agenda, is probably one of the less odious uses of tax money I can imagine. Sadly, the university system has been on the public money gravy tran for so long, it's facing a reckoning, either from Walker or from somene else.
I live in WI, pay taxes in WI and am the owner of a degree from the University of Wisconsin. So I might the biggest stakeholder posting in this thread.
And I fully cheer everything Walker is doing here. Madison is loaded with a couple thousand profs and assistants who make Bernie Sanders look conservative. These folks rarely teach a class and the ones they do are insane gobblegook claptrap. Meanwhile they have bloated salaries and big retirement packages.
Go Walker!
You're right. The university doesn't lose a thing. The funding. The research. The scientist. Nothing worthwhile there.
ironically, research funding for hard sciences, absent any political agenda, is probably one of the less odious uses of tax money I can imagine.
Well it looks like Wisconsin is trying to ensure you don't have to worry about any odious use of tax money at their universities.
Happy about the university. Not so happy for the fish. Amd the sports stadium is just more crony capitalism.
You love walleye and hate cilantro - you must be my unknown brother. LOL
Nice!
How juvenile.
universities have priced themselves out of their own market. Enrollments are down and student loan deliquencies are skyrocketing. We’ve had a decade of college graduates failing to find work, especially in their major. Young people are starting to figure out it’s not worth it.
Tilapia is virtually a waste product, but if you combine it with enormous amounts of butter and lemon, it is edible....tastes a lot like butter and lemon....Perch, on the other hand, tastes GREAT when properly prepared....not disguised.
Yeah, you had to take a picture lest you missed the last time a group of liberals voluntarily stifled themselves.
Except he seems to fear the Sodomite lobby and will not condemn their actions.
Exactly right.
Walker’s history with UW and the faculty’s unease.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
If you say the wrong CONSERVATIVE OR CHRISTIAN thing,
http://academeblog.org/2015/02/04/marquette-to-fire-john-mcadams-for-his-blog/
BREAKING NEWS - Massive University of Wisconsin Slush Fund Discovered “
We are outraged with the mishandling of taxpayer dollars and the pattern of incompetence shown by university system administrators. We want the citizens of this state to know that we will examine the gross mismanagement of the system’s finances. We will demand accountability and transparency.
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/perspectives/203782191.html 25% of UW-Madison Programs Graduate 10 or Fewer Degrees
Media Trackers decided to help Blank out by reviewing the hundreds of programs UW-Madison offers undergraduates and graduate students. What we found is that the campus of over 43,000 students and 21,000 faculty and staff graduates 10 or fewer students in a quarter of its programs — with more than 10% of the programs awarding 5 or fewer degrees in 2013-2014.
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/dailytakes/Quarter-of-UW-Madison-Programs-Graduate--292409681.html
Everybody talks about skyrocketing student debt and increasing tuition in the absence of inflation. Driving efficiencies and reducing tuition costs for Taxpayers is good politics and good for suffering taxpayers! learning about html.
I can’t wait for these self-absorbed, self-righteous, self-important, navel-gazing, spoiled baby-boomer leftists to die off. Screw them.
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