First, Florida's Republicans undermined its universities' (well, at least one) ability to foster a proper academic...

First, Florida's Republicans undermined its universities' (well, at least one) ability to foster a proper academic environment. Now, Wisconsin is creating a toxic atmosphere that will surely damage that state's public universities for years, if not decades. When you elect people to power who believe that all education should be privatized, do not be surprised when public education becomes a festering pile. They want it to be that way so you will conclude that they've been right all along. They are manipulating you.

Originally shared by Amy Ellis

How to dismantle higher education in your state:

1) Manufacture a crisis by systematically starving the university system of state funds and slashing their budgets.
2) Prevent the universities from raising tuition in order to make up the budget deficits you have imposed.
3) Declare a financial emergency that requires the university system to be more "flexible" in order to handle budget woes.
4) Invent a story that professors - and teachers - are lazy, underworked, and overpaid.
5) Stack the board of regents with your cronies.
6) Remove tenure from state statute.
7) Disallow individual campuses from writing their own tenure policies so that the power will rest with your stacked board.
8) Watch as your board removes tenure protections to provide "cash-strapped campuses" with the flexibility to fire tenured professors and discontinue programs in order to respond to the financial crisis you've engineered.
9) Watch as many of the most productive, talented, and in-demand faculty leave the university system for other states, quality declines, class sizes rise, and programs are discontinued.
10) Declare public higher education a failure.

Well played, Walker. Well played.
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