This article is behind a fire wall at JSOnline. I have an issue with that but that may be my next post. But here it is if you subscribe:
Governor candidates Tom Tiffany, Josh Schoemann call for changes to UW, including tuition freeze
One of their positions is to remove professorial tenure from the University of Wisconsin system. Tenure was originally designed to encourage talented professors to stay at the school offering them tenure and to protect them from political blow back and protect their rights to free speech and independent research. So of course GOP pols want to eliminate that so that they can continue their messing with UW and to implement Trump's intrusions into academia.
BUT, Josh Schoemann and Tom Tiffany. Let's take the lead here and before you start dictating to the university, lets set term limits on elected officials. You know, like Wisconsin Assembly members and State Senators, and Governor. Put your money where your mouth is and lead by example.
BTW: there are fewer and fewer tenured professors in the UW system. Not because the university doesn't like the idea anymore, but because guys like Tiffany have slashed the UW budgets so badly over the years, the UW prefers to use part time adjuncts to save money. And if I remember, back in the day, their were complaints about paying all that tuition money only to be taught by TAs and adjuncts. What happened to that line of thinking.
| U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany |
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