The End of Academic Tenure?

[Saved.One.by.Grace]

Scott Walker is advocating a reform in Wisconsin that could have more profound an impact on America than anything we have seen in a long time. Establishment leftism depends upon institutions that support and promote its philosophy and agenda using our money. The most obnoxious offender is Big Education, especially tenured professors who mock our values even as they rob our pockets.

Tenured professors are impossible to remove, they need do almost no work, and these goons spout Marxist nonsense and abuse conservative students with impunity. Even worse, overpaid professors and bloated state universities not only squeeze the taxpayers in tight state budgets, but also force middle-class families and young adults into debt to purchase the dubious benefits of a college degree.

Walker is proposing to end tenure in the state university system. Predictably, the overpaid and underworked professorial class is screeching about the loss of academic freedom. These are the same clowns who regularly intimidate conservative students in their classes, who exclude qualified conservatives from the very tenure they are defending, and who participate in keeping conservative speakers off campuses.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/scott_walker_and_academic_tenure.html#ixzz3crXyqCU6

 

[GFR7]

It would be good to end tenure for many reasons. For Professors and for public school teachers as well.

 

[The Barbarian]

Walker's still smarting from getting slapped down on his last attempt to impose his version of political correctness on the Universities:

New documents showed Scott Walker lied about his scheme to strike the Wisconsin Idea from state law.

The documents released Friday to the Wisconsin State Journal (DeFour) and other journalists flatly contradict Walker's evolving statements in February that Walker's crafted effort to remove the Wisconsin Idea from Wisconsin statutes was the result of a "drafting error," "a mistake" and "no big deal...Widespread outrage and ridicule over Walker's proposal in February saw the Walker administration release a series of statements misrepresenting known facts.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran a report on Feb. 5 (Stein, Marley and Herzog) entitled Walker forced to admit UW objected to Wisconsin Idea changes. Reads the Journal-Sentinel's piece:

Gov. Scott Walker and aides scrambled Thursday to respond to revelations that his administration had insisted to University of Wisconsin officials on scrapping the Wisconsin Idea, the guiding principle for the state's universities for more than a century.

In a rapid revision to his own comments on Wednesday, the Republican governor acknowledged that UW System officials had raised objections about the proposal.

They had been told the changes were not open to debate.

While backtracking on earlier comments to reporters, Walker continued to insist in a statement that he hadn't known what his own administration was doing until after the proposal became public and caused a firestorm of criticism. ..."
http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2015/05/scott-walker-lied-about-wisconsin-idea.html

So he's just sulking after a rather embarrassing defeat. And he's not too happy about economists noting that Wisconsin, after implementing his "jobs" programs, fell to 40th place in new private sector job growth.

But revenge is a dish best served cold. This might be the wrong time to remind voters about his character.

 

[chrysostom]

the barbarian is still smarting from what walker did in wisconsin