Murphy’s Law
New UW Policy Threatens ‘Wisconsin Idea’
Will university departments be constrained from championing ways to improve government?
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Bruce, thanks for your excellent analysis of this chilling new University of Wisconsin policy. Like UW-Madison, the centers, institutes, and departments of UW-Milwaukee will be silenced by Jay Rothman’s restrictions. In Wisconsin for 150 years we have valued the voices of our higher education leaders and scholars addressing the pros and cons of governmental policies and suggesting ways to improve the quality of life for all in our state.
I was fortunate to work for the UWM Employment and Training Institute, which was charged with addressing the workforce and education needs of low-income and unemployed Wisconsin workers and Milwaukee families through applied research and policy development. Many of our policy recommendations were enacted into law, most recently the bipartisan legislation to support statewide free driver’s education for high school students from lower-income families.
I urge all concerned residents to speak out against this un-Wisconsin policy.
Has Rothman and the board lost their mind!!!? Grow a pair–we must keep the foundation of the ‘Wisconsin Idea’ and continue to have the university in all its glory contribute to our state in the many ways it has in the past.
Rothman is a partisan hack, charged by MAGA-land to destroy a once-great university system. The tears are flowing down Bascom Hill and Ol’ John Commons is spinning in his grave.