Posted on 12/09/2023 1:11:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Universities of Wisconsin regents narrowly rejected a deal Saturday reached with Republicans that would have given employees a pay raise and paid for construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
The deal would have frozen hiring for diversity positions, dropped an affirmative action faculty hiring program at UW-Madison and created a position at the flagship campus focused on conservative thought. The engineering building would have been built at UW-Madison.
Conservatives have long criticized the UW system as a bastion of liberalism. Democrats have accused Republicans of holding employees hostage by blocking pay raises.
Under the deal, the system would have frozen hiring for diversity positions through the end of 2026 and shift at least 43 diversity positions to focus on “student success.” The system also would have eliminated any statements supporting diversity on student applications.
UW-Madison also would have created a position that focuses on conservative political thought funded through donations and scrapped a program designed to recruit diverse faculty.
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As you can see, DEI only exists on government money and debt
They need to drop the Jihad and Socialist Studies portions of the U.
“bastion of liberalism?” UW Madison is a bastion of Mao’s Red Guards!
I earned my BSEE from this school in 1970. It was during the Viet Nam riots (Black Demands also) and who could forget Dow Chemical!
Now, the asshats that were trying to burn down my school are now running it!
Madison and the UW are now beyond recovery. A Pox on Them ALL!
So, political ideology is more important than education. Play hard ball. Cut all the funding until all DEI positions and policies are eliminated and the university gets back to its real mission: education. If that does not work, set up an alternative university.
Madistan is 50 square miles surrounded by reality
The states need to reduce funding to the universities. Then they will have to raise the tuition. Less students will attend the universities. Then it’ll be time for them to cut the “fat”.
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The feds pump a lot of money into the diversity positions programs they don’t want to lose the money.
Bribes do pay off very well but nothing else does.
Madistan
“Priorities.”
Keeping the useless DEI bloat was more important. It was a matter of principle. /S
They should get rid of the liberal arts, like dance and sociology.
It really is time to change the name of the “democrat party” to the ‘Nationalist Marxist Party’.
It if walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it has to be a Nationalist Marxist.
Sniff sniff.... I’m calling BS
Sniff sniff.... does it smell like rotten cheese around here?
It’s a reverse hit piece! Interesting twist.
keep reducing the budget for their positions every quarter until the university gets the hint.
UW Madistan doesn’t have to take any ‘deals’ involving ‘republicans.’ They are SWIMMING in cash from wealthy Socialist Democrat donors.
I was at a Badger football game a few years back and a famous author gave them a check for $ ONE MILLION DOLLARS $ as half-time entertainment as his wife was a track star Alum.
And that was Chump Change. Here’s a donation of ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS all the way back in 2014:
https://www.wpr.org/uw-madison-receives-largest-ever-donation-100m
If anyone wants to do the math, the invested interest on $100M is staggering.
It’s not Blood Money or Bribes! It’s not promoting Socialism! It’s Philanthropy! *SPIT*
https://www.supportuw.org/about-us/history/
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