Posted on 01/29/2015 2:05:45 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 GOP contender who never earned a college degree, has proposed a huge cut in funding for the University of Wisconsin system over the next two years.
Walker’s office pitched the plan, which is part of the governor’s budget proposal, boasting it would give the university system more discretion over its finances. But it also carries a $300 million cut and a tuition freeze for the UW system over two years. That amounts to a 13% decrease of state funding for the university system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.......
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the system’s flagship campus, was more pointed. “Although we have not yet seen full details of Governor Walker’s plan, I am concerned about the magnitude of the proposed budget cuts and their impact on UW-Madison,” she said in a Tuesday statement. “… Fully absorbing these cuts would have a harmful impact on our students and their educational experience.”....
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Oh here it comes again—”don’t do it, it will affect the students (vs children)”.
Bullcrap, it will affect your pension and pay, you lyin’ fools!
What is $300 million as a percentage of overall funding?
From the article: But it also carries a $300 million cut and a tuition freeze for the UW system over two years. That amounts to a 13% decrease of state funding for the university system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel..
Moreover, at least 75% of administrative positions could be completely eliminated, with nothing but positive results for the academic community. Most of the leaches in the administration buildings and departmental administrative offices do nothing but sap the productivity of the rest of the faculty and staff. And faculty could do much more. You would be shocked and outraged to see the actual teaching loads of most of the six-figure faculty members at major public and private universities.
If you want some idea of the crap that could be cut without affecting actual student education, check out these from just one useless department...
http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/abstracts/15spring/blacklivesmatter.html
http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/research/themes.html
This is the worst sort of indecipherable academic-speak...
The ascription of indigeneity, which once derived mainly from a people’s history of belonging to a territory and culture that were subjugated through conquest by colonial empires and marginalized in successor post-colonial nations, now is being thoroughly mediated by human and nonhuman actors and forces that transcend the national form. The transnational dynamics mobilized around the question of indigeneity have helped extend the concept to new reaches of the globe, new communities of people, and new issues to which earlier definitions of indigeneity are not immediately applicable. Although indigeneity has historically been defined against the background of territorial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural dominance within nation-states, it also has wider implications in the 21st century, pertaining to questions of nonhuman as well as human belonging.
In 1984 (?) I decided to go back to school to get a degree. I started at our community college because it cost less. Most of the students there were in basic English, math, etc. and even when I saw them in the higher level classes I wondered how they passed the basic classes. It was pathetic.
Close the Madison campus. We have enough communists in colleges.
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