Attend anti-Walker rally and get extra credit, English professor tells students

thecollegefix.com ^ | Feb. 20, 2015 | Greg Piper

[PROCON]

Apparently copied from a College Democrats invitation

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System have drawn the scorn of education activists, administrators, union members and politicians.

The coalition against the college-dropout governor isn’t complete without freshman English students at UW-Whitewater, however.

Professor Beth Lueck offered her students extra credit to attend a Thursday night rally against the proposed 13 percent cut to the university system, according a posting on an “internal university website that posts homework assignments and class announcements,” the free-market MacIver Institute said Thursday morning.

“You may get extra credit by joining the rally or by observing it or by protesting it,” she told students in the Tuesday night post, according to the institute’s screenshot of the message.

[PROCON]

Little Nazi Marxists doing what little Nazi Marxists do best.

H/t weaselzippers

[lesko]

This is getting ‘effin ridiculous. I’m beginning to feel embarrassed for having gone to college and supplementing professor payrolls.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Prof. Beth Leuck - she ran as a Democrat for state Assembly.

[PROCON]

Yuck....but we need a professional opinion....LAZ?

[WaterWeWaitinFor]

A prominent local radio host Mark Belling was talking about this at length a couple of days ago. THIS is what we’re up against with the Walker Derangement Syndrome. Can you imagine giving extra credit for showing up at a Romney rally in 2012?

[bray]

She is the 99% of Academia.

Pray America is waking

[Right Brother]

[snowtigger]

Can I borrow a cup of that.

[Noumenon]

I would hit it - with the loader on my Kubota L225DT tractor.

[chajin]

In my 28 years of college instruction, I have only once given extra credit for something that was unrelated to the class, and that was on September 12, 2001: I offered extra credit for any student who donated blood, or did something equivalent if s/he were medically unable to donate blood.

The reason we lose and they win is because we fight according to our principles, and they fight to win, and damn the principles.

[dainbramaged]

Hey, I’m eating breakfast here for cryin’ out loud.

[PoloSec]

Yet some would doubt the communists are completely embedded in all aspects of American institutions, culture and society.

They are almost in total control; our Constitutional Free Republic is hanging by a just few very thin, frayed, worn and strained threads.

[Beagle8U]

Uglier than a hedgerow of hairy a**holes!

[Norseman]

The Walker budget cuts $300 million from the university system in exchange for giving college administrators more control over their spending decisions. That is, he supposedly will be removing some state mandates they’re currently subject to.

That said, the activists in the state university system lean heavily liberal. They shouldn’t be surprised that a GOP-controlled government is going to remove some of their sustenance, taxpayer dollars.

Incidentally, his current budget also calls for an expansion of the Milwaukee voucher program to all public school students, I believe. If successful, the money will follow the student. That change alone could make Wisconsin one of the leading educational systems in the country within a few years, especially if it’s coupled with a change in the ridiculous teacher certification programs where a person has to spend 5 years in college to teach first graders.

[terycarl]

This shows that you do not measure I.Q. by adding professor to your title...does anyone have an e-mail address for either her or the institution?

[navet97]

The reason we lose and they win is because we fight according to our principles, and they fight to win, and damn the principles.

You’re right! But if we fight like them , we may win but will compromise our principles. Quite the conundrum!

[Doogle]

[driftless2]

I would hope the first thing the university system colleges would do is junk all their womyn’s, black, queer, etc. studies courses and all the leeches who staff and administer the affirmative discrimination er action offices. They’d save a lot of money there. Won’t happen, but I can dream.

[Steve_Seattle]

"the proposed 13 percent cut"

I thought it was a 6% cut ($150 million out of $2.5 billion), and that it would be the SAME cut maintained for 2 years, i.e., a reduction to $2.35 billion for two years, rather than a reduction to $2.35 billion followed by another reduction to $2.2 billion. But even if its the latter, it is incorrect to say that it is a 13% cut, because the average of the two years would be less than that.

[Sideshow Bob]

"the proposed 13 percent cut"

Walker has proposed a 13% cut in the State's funding to the UW system. However, State funding represents less than 20% of annual UW funding. The actual impact to the UW budget is roughly a 2% reduction in funding.

BUT, in exchange for this minor funding cut, Walker is proposing to give the UW system greater autonomy and eliminating legislative reporting requirements and bureaucracy. This new autonomy should result in spending reductions at least equal to (and probably much greater than) the 2% funding cut.