Scott Walker proposes big cut to University of Wisconsin System

MSNBC ^ | January 28, 2015 | David Taintor, graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire

[SgtHooper]

Oh here it comes again—”don’t do it, it will affect the students (vs children)”.

Bullcrap, it will affect your pension and pay, you lyin’ fools!

[DoodleDawg]

What is $300 million as a percentage of overall funding?

[exit82]

What is $300 million as a percentage of overall funding?

From the article: But it also carries a $300 million cut and a tuition freeze for the UW system over two years. That amounts to a 13% decrease of state funding for the university system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel..

[Spartan79]

. My guess is that 40% of the schools could be eliminated and no one would notice.

Moreover, at least 75% of administrative positions could be completely eliminated, with nothing but positive results for the academic community. Most of the leaches in the administration buildings and departmental administrative offices do nothing but sap the productivity of the rest of the faculty and staff. And faculty could do much more. You would be shocked and outraged to see the actual teaching loads of most of the six-figure faculty members at major public and private universities.

[MediaMole]

If you want some idea of the crap that could be cut without affecting actual student education, check out these from just one useless department...

http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/abstracts/15spring/blacklivesmatter.html

http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/research/themes.html

This is the worst sort of indecipherable academic-speak...

The ascription of indigeneity, which once derived mainly from a people’s history of belonging to a territory and culture that were subjugated through conquest by colonial empires and marginalized in successor post-colonial nations, now is being thoroughly mediated by human and nonhuman actors and forces that transcend the national form. The transnational dynamics mobilized around the question of indigeneity have helped extend the concept to new reaches of the globe, new communities of people, and new issues to which earlier definitions of indigeneity are not immediately applicable. Although indigeneity has historically been defined against the background of territorial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural dominance within nation-states, it also has wider implications in the 21st century, pertaining to questions of nonhuman as well as human belonging.

[sheana]

In 1984 (?) I decided to go back to school to get a degree. I started at our community college because it cost less. Most of the students there were in basic English, math, etc. and even when I saw them in the higher level classes I wondered how they passed the basic classes. It was pathetic.

[ExSoldier]

Freezing tuition is ALWAYS a good idea. The only thing better would be a tuition cut.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Close the Madison campus. We have enough communists in colleges.