Heather Cox Richardson
(uh huh)
The "stupid" guy just keeps winning because the people of Wisconsin LIKE Walker beating back these socialists who believe Wisconsin belongs to them.
About that "Wisconsin Experiment" it's called the "Wisconsin Idea."
"The Wisconsin Idea is the policy developed in the American state of Wisconsin that fosters public universities' contributions to the state: "to the government in the forms of serving in office, offering advice about public policy, providing information and exercising technical skill, and to the citizens in the forms of doing research directed at solving problems that are important to the state and conducting outreach activities". A second facet of the philosophy is the effort "to ensure well-constructed legislation aimed at benefiting the greatest number of people". During the Progressive Era, proponents of the Wisconsin Idea saw the state as "the laboratory for democracy", resulting in legislation that served as a model for other states and the federal government."......
Professor Richardson, Boston College: In 1964, Ronald Reagan articulated a growing distrust of liberal academics in his televised prime-time speech in support of Goldwater’s presidential bid. Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” attacked the social welfare policies of Kennedy and President Johnson as leading to “the ant heap of totalitarianism.” Reagan warned against “a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol” planning the economy and, for good measure, took a potshot at a Harvard education. Two years later, Reagan won the governorship of California, thanks to his fire-breathing promise to “clean up that mess in Berkeley,” where students were falling under the sway of left-wing agitators and protesting the Vietnam War.
This speech could be given today:
Ronald Reagan: "A Time for Choosing"
Of curse they conflate removing the corrupting anti-intellectual influence of unions in academia with anti-intellectualism in general.
The MAIN thing that is leading to anti-intellectualism on campus is union-led and protected Political Correctness.
“maligning universities as hotbeds of socialism “
I’d like to take this opportunity to malign the writer as being a socialist
Again, the liberal is accusing a conservative of the very thing the liberal is already doing.
Heather Cox Richardson
(uh huh)
A very good question, to be sure.
I understand Bill and Hillary are setting up a study group on that very subject.....
The Clinton Foundation is aiding the effort w/ a billion dollar gift from one of its "socially responsible" donors....from education-conscious Nigeria.
“...eighty years of maligning universities as hotbeds of socialism...”
Maligning? No, you silly, ignorant Salinistas: enlightening. About this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uHbLE8n6xE
The writer seethes, “works in lockstep with ALEC, funded by the Koch brothers”, but fails to recognize how the Dem governors “work in lockstep with the National Council for State Legislatures (NCSL), funded by Soros...” Actually both ALEC and NCSL should be scorned and banned by law. They are “non-profits” that seek legislative and policy changes at the state level, producing cookie-cutter legislation and presenting it to state legislatures so that ALL fifty states can adopt the SAME laws. ALEC and NCSL completely undermine federalism and our representative republic.
—while I wasn’t particularly aware of it at the time, there was left-wing bias even in Wisconsin high schools when I attended-—(’54-’58)—
here's another thought... If everyone has a college degree, then no one has a degree: the degree, by itself, has no value. Everything can't be "top priority".
As if Salon represents anything other than proof that the liberal version of education is anything other than a complete failure.
Example: Dorkbama.
QED
The UW system needs to be carefully examined and made rational again. The UW extablishment has, of course, screamed “bloody murder”, which is a sign Walker is on the right trail.
I love the way he calls it “Act 10 for Higher Education”! He is subtly taunting them with their previous loss, which tends to make them lose it.
I love the provision about alternative credentialing for teaching licenses (end run around the “education degree” requirements).
Dear Professor Arrogant, who gets to decide what the greatest good is? As far as "for most people", who gets to pick the winners and the losers?
Oh, that's right, it is a enlightened collection of self-anointed, sanctimonious pinheads. You and your ilk will get us killed. IQ does not determine wisdom professor.
If memory serves the other 49 states leave tenure matters to the regents of their universities rather than codifying it into law.
More interesting is the drive that seems to be picking up steam requiring college instructors to teach twice as many classes as they do now. I think there's a similar initiative in North Carolina. I'm sure the other 48 states are hoping and praying for those bills to pass because then once North Carolina and Wisconsin universities are out of the research business then all that funding and all those instructors will be there for the taking.
“(Wisconsin) Democratic senators fled to Illinois to stop a vote on the bill...”
I’ll wager this bimbo sees not the utter hypocrisy of that act.
Just wow. I guess a professor can ‘profess’ anything, idiotic or logical.