Walker Wins: New Budget Will Repeal University Tenure

dailycaller.com ^ | July 11, 2015 | Blake Neff

[PROCON]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is poised to win a huge victory on education as the state legislature passed a budget that repeals state tenure guarantees while also slashing the budget of the University of Wisconsin.

The victory was enunciated by the acquiescence of the university, which recognized its defeat by passing a spending plan that implements Walker’s cuts. All that remains is for Walker to consummate his victory by affixing his signature to the budget.

The two-year, $73 billion budget approved Thursday makes a host of changes Walker has sought in the realm of education. Wisconsin’s school voucher program is expanded, and $250 million in funding is taken from the University of Wisconsin. That’s down from the $300 million cut Walker originally sought, but still a substantial haircut.

[Cold Heat]

I totally agree with that..

[Randy Larsen]

Calif state budget for 2015-2016 is $167,574,550.

$73 Billion???

[Norseman]

>>He had already hired/fired an open borders communications lady after it was exposed.<<

Hard to please some people. He hired her, she stepped over the line, he fired her.

Unless you’re saying he hired her after she stepped over the line, in full knowledge of it, what’s your beef? My understanding of the matter is that he stepped up and let her go after she screwed up.

[Lurkinanloomin]

She was a known quantity, everybody knew she was an open borders advocate before he hired her. It was only after the outrage erupted that he cut her loose.

Brad Dayspring had a hand in the Mississppi mess and is a known sleazebag.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Walker victoroy on budget.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

bttt!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yep the country is circling the drain but Walker is keeping us all safe from college professors. :-)

[Justa]

“Yep the country is circling the drain but Walker is keeping us all safe from college professors. :-)”

It’s a great place to start. Perhaps one of the main reasons the country is “circling the drain” is the proliferation of bad policies, bad ideas and flawed reasoning spouted by decades of college graduates (of tenured professors)? It’s about time the same market rules the nation operates under permeate into its colleges.

[hal ogen]

It is a start.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well Walker has waited too long to announce and now Trump has sucked all the air out of the room so we won’t have to worry about it. :-)

[hal ogen]

There is time for all.

[GOPJ]

Good for Walker...

[GOPJ]

Liberal Universities brainwash our kids and they bankrupt middle class families... So they ARE doing something.... just not anything worthwhile...

[Norseman]

>>...everybody knew she was an open borders advocate before he hired her. It was only after the outrage erupted that he cut her loose.<<

So, she was going to be his immigration advisor was she?

And the “outrage” was her comments about Iowa voters. She was fired for those comments, as she should have been.

As for the “known sleazebag,” he was hired to take down Cochran’s opponent and got it done. Here’s hoping he’s as effective taking down Hillary when the time comes.

Next you’ll be against Walker because his wife disagrees with him on some issues...as she apparently does.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Another Yuge issue settled by Walker. Now its on to Muskie bag limit enforcement. :-)

[Lurkinanloomin]

As for the “known sleazebag,” he was hired to take down Cochran’s opponent and got it done

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His opponent was a conservative and they brought in Democrats to win it for them.
And you are good with that.
You are a Party guy, not a conservative.
Noted.

[Norseman]

You can assume all you want, but I wanted Cochran beat. Didn’t happen though and it occurs to me that one reason it didn’t happen just might have been due to the efforts of that “sleazebag” you have no time for.

I just hope that same sleazebag manages to bury Hillary in her lies.

And when are you going to get around to castigating Walker because of his wife’s views? I would think you’d consider that a target-rich environment. After all, she has his ear each and every day, and night.

[editor-surveyor]

There are no suitable governors presently.

The big conservative donors all see that Cruz is the man; that is why the Dems and GOPe picked Trump to run a diversion.
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[editor-surveyor]

I think you’re right.

As long as Cruz is the top of the ticket, Walker has useful talents, and a cold-hearted willingness to do what has to be done.

[Verginius Rufus]

The cuts should be made in the administration and non-academic staff positions. In practice a lot of courses are taught by adjuncts who have no job security, or by graduate students.

The tenure-track process usually takes 6 years. That is the time to weed out incompetent or unproductive faculty. Some universities have "post-tenure review" to create anxiety on the part of tenured professors.

It is hard to measure "productivity" when academic fields vary greatly. "Flagship" public universities have different expectations for quantity of publications compared to universities that put teaching first. Not all publications are equal in value.

Given what I have seen of academic administrators, I don't think enhancing their power over the faculty will make for better universities (not that I think that all administrators are bad).

Some egregious cases involving "free speech zones" and "triggering" have made the news, and there are no doubt other cases, but it may be too early to say that they represent the norm on college campuses.