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.
>>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.<<
Yes, and that is exactly the reason for the $250 million budget cut. If they miraculously “find” the money elsewhere, it will be cut again next time around. If they can’t find the money, tenure won’t save the least productive professors.
Of course, there’s a chance that the Board will be composed of liberals and that conservatives will be the ones laid off (for “financial” reasons) but, in that event, eventually the curriculum would decay to the point that the school would suffer.
Personally, I’d cut the budget $250 million every biennial budget until free speech zones and “triggering” disappeared from the campus altogether. That’s how we’d know balance had been restored, and not before.