Posted on 01/29/2015 2:05:45 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 GOP contender who never earned a college degree, has proposed a huge cut in funding for the University of Wisconsin system over the next two years.
Walker’s office pitched the plan, which is part of the governor’s budget proposal, boasting it would give the university system more discretion over its finances. 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.......
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the system’s flagship campus, was more pointed. “Although we have not yet seen full details of Governor Walker’s plan, I am concerned about the magnitude of the proposed budget cuts and their impact on UW-Madison,” she said in a Tuesday statement. “… Fully absorbing these cuts would have a harmful impact on our students and their educational experience.”....
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Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison ..... “Fully absorbing these cuts would have a harmful impact on our students and their educational experience.”....
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They don’t need an “educational experience”, they need a basic education. There’s plenty of Leftist cr@p used to fluff up “education” to an “experience” and students will be better off if that gets stripped out. Walker really knows how to kick the Leftist hornet’s nest ... the guy is fearless, which is why I like him so much.
Get rid of departments of women's studies, black studies, LGBT-studies, and other majors worthless for actually getting a real job.
Uber-smart of him to couple this with the tuition freeze.
Will make it thrice as hard for Leftists to demagogue.
One of the more valuable things he could do is get statistics which match up majors against student incomes 3 years after final graduation. Departments whose students don't make enough to pay back their student loans would be dropped.
Here's how these 11 ranked:
Three in the top 10 excellent category (Washington, Lincoln, Cleveland)
Three above average (Jackson, Taylor, Fillmore)
Three average (Harrison, McKinley, Truman)
Two poor or bottom 10 (Van Buren, A. Johnson)
Moral: Our random odds are actually better with presidents who didn't graduate from college.
Since Harrison only served one month, it is unfair to put him anywhere but average.
How many schools are in the Wisconsin state college system ?
How much duplication is there ?
Oh no... Scott Walker will get Liberal professors upset!!! He don’t want to do that!!! /s
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 GOP contender who never earned a college degree” You mean...”who proved you don’t need a college degree to be successful”
This is just one of the things Walker decided to do rather than take up the union fight again this year.
He realized he couldn’t do both, so he chose to take on a bunch of stuff that he judged would benefit WI the most.
Even if that opened him up to a bunch of ankle biters.
If you choose to include the current bozo occupying the White House, that would make the score: academics - 2, America - 0.
Im really really starting to like this guy!
And all that stuff about classroom prep is mostly hooey as well. I have the fortune/misfortune to be a community college administrator who came up the marketing/business ranks—not the academic side. My dealings with the instructional staff have often been revealing. Early in my tenure, I was told to coordinate anything needing academic approval before the end of the spring term, since 90% of the faculty was absent from campus during the summer, despite the fact they were supposed to maintain office hours and all the full-timers are on 12-month contracts.
Despite ample time off. I’ve heard several complain about their workload. But most only teach a couple of classes a term, using lesson plans and materials that require only minor updates. And their additional duty load is lower than the administrative staff, who actually work year-round.
The good news is that the days of hide-bound tenured faculty are drawing to a close. Lots of talented adjuncts and they are a lot less expensive. At my previous school, we eliminated full-time faculty from our on-line courses. Obviously, the part-timers saved us a lot of money, but the biggest reason was student feedback. Not surprisingly, the working professionals we hired as adjuncts always rated much higher in student surveys than the full-timers. To be fair, we have some excellent instructors at my school, but far too many slugs.
And all that stuff about classroom prep is mostly hooey as well. I have the fortune/misfortune to be a community college administrator who came up the marketing/business ranks—not the academic side. My dealings with the instructional staff have often been revealing. Early in my tenure, I was told to coordinate anything needing academic approval before the end of the spring term, since 90% of the faculty was absent from campus during the summer, despite the fact they were supposed to maintain office hours and all the full-timers are on 12-month contracts.
Despite ample time off. I’ve heard several complain about their workload. But most only teach a couple of classes a term, using lesson plans and materials that require only minor updates. And their additional duty load is lower than the administrative staff, who actually work year-round.
The good news is that the days of hide-bound tenured faculty are drawing to a close. Lots of talented adjuncts and they are a lot less expensive. At my previous school, we eliminated full-time faculty from our on-line courses. Obviously, the part-timers saved us a lot of money, but the biggest reason was student feedback. Not surprisingly, the working professionals we hired as adjuncts always rated much higher in student surveys than the full-timers. To be fair, we have some excellent instructors at my school, but far too many slugs.
Say no to university fat cats...
-— Walker strikes again at the heart of the beast! I’ll take a battle tested State Governor like Walker over a bloviating US Senator (TC), any day. -—
To make this an apples-to-apples comparison, you have to consider their performance within the limitations of their powers.
Both are doing an exellent job, but Cruz has a broader knowledge of public policy, IMO
We could start a whole thread on academics who ran countries into disaster territory. Wilson and BO are/were both abject disasters, but neither has risen to the disaster level of Pol Pot or Robert Mugabe. At least not yet.
This would be a dream ticket, the best chance of taking back the presidency and actually getting something good done for a change.
Walker, on the other hand, beat Cruz in street fighting skills although, again to be fair, I haven't seen Cruz perform in an executive position.
I don’t honestly care who is at the top of the ticket but I hope they work as a team instead of the usual president/VP duo, where the VP is ceremonial. I wouldn’t mind seeing two desks in the oval office if they are both behind them.
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