Assembly leader blasts regents on tenure, shared governance
Vos has always had it in for the University System. This will not end well.
Assembly leader blasts regents on tenure, shared governance
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/professors-group-raises-red-flag-on-scott-walkers-uw-system-plans-b99461011z1-296085811.html
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos questions giving a new public authority power to oversee University of Wisconsin System campuses if it doesn’t plan to curtail academic tenure and shared governance.
Journal Sentinel files
By Patrick Marley and Karen Herzog of the Journal Sentinel
Updated: 10:00 p.m.
Madison — The head of the Assembly said Thursday that he was backing off support for giving the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy because university leaders don't appear willing to make dramatic changes in areas such as tenure and shared governance.
"Giving autonomy to folks who want to use it to change the institution, I think that makes sense — if they want to use it," Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said on the WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network.
"But when I see that the (Board of Regents) at its last meeting came out and said that we're going to have no change — no changes to tenure, no change to all of these different things — well, then why are we giving you the autonomy to do nothing with it if you're going to protect the status quo?"
Asked later whether the Legislature could just end tenure and shared governance, and not give the Board of Regents a say in the matter, Vos said Assembly Republicans hadn't discussed the issue.
However, he said: "It's definitely possible. I mean, the reason that I have always supported the idea of an independent authority for Madison and then the university was because I thought the regents would stand up and say we're going to become the experts, delve into the topic, understand what's right and what's wrong, what's got to be fixed, where the university needs to be for the next 50 years. And what I read in news reports was basically a bunch of people who said we don't want to change anything."
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