You didn’t read the article. The power is transferred to University REGENTS (Board of Director) who are appointed by the governor.
-—those who have already won tenure can’t have it removed without cause
its in the artitcle.. they can have it removed.
-—If a public university wanted to keep its tenure policies unchanged, how does this budget prevent them from doing so?
its in the article. In Wisconsin the tenure was in State law (the only State with it enshrined in law(. Now this power is in the hands of the Regents.
If you had heard the solid weeks of whining of the lefty professors you would understand that their ox was gored big time.
OK, now I have read the article. It seems that Wisconsin will be like other states with regard to tenure. So the Board of Regents must approve tenure, and there is a longer list of pretexts for letting tenured professors go, but there still will be tenure.
In my state tenure has to be approved by the Board of Regents, but if someone has strong support from the department and department chairman, there isn't much chance that the college committee will vote "no," and the dean's, the provost's, the president's, and the Board of Regents' approvals are pretty much assured once the college committee has approved.