Scott Walker's UW mission rewrite could end the Wisconsin Idea

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | February 4, 2015 | Karen Herzog

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget calls for essentially removing the public service language from the University of Wisconsin System's mission to focus more on workforce development, according to language released Wednesday morning.

The Wisconsin Idea has long been the core philosophy of the UW System, driving campuses to extend their reach into communities and "every family in the state."

That mission also is linked to Wisconsin public radio and TV. The Walker budget cuts $5 million in state funding from the public service media. State funding makes up about 10% of the budget for their programming operations, according to a spokesman for the governor.

"I'm nearly speechless," said Mark Schwartz, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee distinguished professor of geography and chairman of the faculty University Committee. "The budget cuts are one thing. This aims at the heart of the Wisconsin Idea,and smashes it."

[Awgie]

SW makes it feel like Christmas every day. He is a man of action in a world of republican windbags and democrat subversives. Democrats in Wisconsin must feel like the rag heads in “The Sniper.”

[itsahoot]

Tenure has become so badly abused it now does the exact opposite.

Sadly there would be very few Christians working in education without tenure, of course one could argue that there a few in any case and they mostly keep their faith to themselves.