Posted on 06/04/2015 1:16:39 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"...During a confusing and often tense meeting Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,a committee of the UW System Board of Regents recommended the full board support moving tenure policy from state law into board policy. A GOP plan by the Legislature's budget-writing Joint Finance Committee took tenure out of the law, as proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
The full Legislature still must take action on the GOP plan as part of the budget, but the plan is expected to be adopted.
Regent Tony Evers,state superintendent of public instruction, failed to get enough votes during the regents committee meeting to formally ask lawmakers to remove nonfiscal items such as tenure and shared governance from the higher education plan.
Regent Gerald Whitburn substituted Evers' motion with one that called on a UW System Tenure Task Force to look at layoff policy as part of its broader efforts to finalize the board's new tenure policy. If the full Board of Regents approves the action of the committee during a meeting Friday, the policy it adopts will serve as a bridge until the task force finishes its work.
At the top of the list for the task force will be outlining policy for when a budget decision or academic program change would constitute grounds for layoff. An appeals process still would be required, according to UW System officials.
"Tenure will be gone as we know it and I think it's a step backward for our relationship with faculty members," Evers said after the meeting. "Bottom line, it means if the Legislature passes the Joint Finance Committee plan as is, regardless of what the regents want to do,tenure will be governed by that (GOP) plan."
During the committee meeting, more than a dozen faculty stood in a cordoned-off protest corral at the back of the room....
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
Certainly it is obvious to any non-stupid person that the taxpayers of Wisconsin should be forced to pay any price and bear any burden so that the members of the UW System Board of Regents should never have to be confused or tense.
Like the rest of us are every day since Obama became President.
No real educator would object to this policy change - a lot of them like it.
The article explains how this will work.
Look at those stupid pampered moron retard academic bozos with their little strips of blue tape over their stupid mouths.
Alinsky tactics designed to appeal to... who? Surely they don’t think that ordinary taxpayers are going to feel anything but amused satisfaction when they see this.
Can they really be that stupid? Wait, don’t answer that.
They don't know how to think; they don't care to know the facts; they're knee jerk activists.
They’re so smart, they’re mentally ill.
Crazy is the new brilliant.
Just internalize that. It explains so much.
They believe that they are judges, or Hillary???
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It’s an unrealistic entitlement mentality, coupled to a sense of being way smarter than everyone else around them.
U Board of Regents assumes tenure policy for themselves,, rather than submit to the changes in state rules that areexpected to be adopted with the new budget.
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Yeah, but to me the most amazing thing is they seem to think that anyone gives a rat's patootie.
If each one covered his or her entire head with blue tape so they actually turned blue and died it might be worth thirty seconds on the evening news. In a sane country, anyway.
I guess we can take comfort knowing that against Bruce Jenner and the question of "lopped or not lopped," these academic dumb bunnies don't stand a chance.
I'm trying to look on the bright side here.
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Too many of these educators have spent their entire lives in this world, they've never actually worked outside of a school environment = arrested development.
And it doesn't help that people who come out of Schools of Journalism are in solidarity with those who come out of Schools of Education.
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but by looking at what they're churning out, it's not enough.
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