[Academiadotorg]

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Republican supporters can only vote in polls right now but his state's university faculty are already voting with their feet--

[BenLurkin]

“where tenure is an abstraction”

Abstraction? That’s the best word this guy cold come up with?

[PGR88]

I face uncertainty every day of my life.

[Jan_Sobieski]

GREAT! Lets get a bunch of Consultant Adjuncts to teach who actually help the kids get REAL skills!

[LS]

I will say this: without tenure, I think my liberal colleagues would have purged me a long time ago. So tenure, in my instance (and that of many other conservative profs) has been a firewall to enable us to argue against the liberal system.

[afraidfortherepublic]

This is great news. We have too many leftie, lazy professors in this state.

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

[Aevery_Freeman]

Oh noes! Where will they ever find enough over-educated nincompoops to fill the vacancies!?

It's not like the country has a glut of un(der)employed post-grads.

SARC tag withheld to confuse the trolls.

[markoman]

“Who wants........where tenure is an abstraction”

You mean where your job isn’t guaranteed?

[AdaGray]

The poor abused little academics don’t like having to compete for a living. Cry me a river.

[Senator_Blutarski]

This is a hit piece.

"Kelly Wilz, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County"

Kelly is teaching at the lowest, podunk level of the UW System. No one cares if Kelly leaves.

Further, Walker's actions don't revoke tenure. His actions move tenure control from the legislature to the UW Board of Regents. This is a fake issue.

[NorthMountain]

his state's university faculty are already voting with their feet--

How many of them would ever, under any circumstances, vote for Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, or Donald Trump?

How many of them voted for Barry Hussein? Kerry? Gore? Clinton? Dukakis? Mondale? Carter?

[winner3000]

“Who wants to work in a state where tenure is an abstraction?”

Answer: professors who know they are good, and therefore don’t have to rely on a political job guarantee to feel confident in their skills and marketability.

[Sooth2222]

My master's degree is from our State U and my impression was that the part time adjuvant faculty was usually as good as and often better than the full time tenure-track faculty.

I also have a friend who was denied tenure the year after the students voted him "professor of the year". (He didn't publish enough.)

[dirtymac]

It is a political move.

If not then they are leaving because they realized their competency will not pass scrutiny.

[dennisw]

Kelly Wilz
Lecturer
Women’s Studies
715-346-3803
CCC 116

[Redleg Duke]

It is a hell of a note when a professor of lesbian studies cannot screw-off and not worry about losing her phony-baloney job, indoctrinating students.

A meritocracy is badly needed in academia!

[Ted Grant]

There’s nothing abstract about it.

[CSM]

Why do they need tenure? Are any of them refusing to carry the party line? If there are any, they are the ones that don’t receive tenure anyway!

It should only be offering protection to the differing voices, not for simple job security to those that are not willing to challenge the status quo. Otherwise, there is no promotion of thought, which is a tragedy in a University setting.

[JPG]

There are bigger concerns in life than tenure!

[arthurus]

Opening up room for improvement. Perhaps new replacement hires will be the sort who prefer to teach academic disciplines rather than expensive frivolity and Revolution.

[drypowder]

Back in 1973 my American History professor, who was Chinese btw, really had vision for what was changing in the US. Probably because China had gone full communist in the late 40s but this professor would commonly pose the question to his class, regarding thuggish government tyranny, “at what point will YOU be ready to pick up a gun to defend your liberty and freedom?” Good thing he was tenured.