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- Why Act 55’s changes don’t make sense for UW
- Lest We Forget—Memorial Day Reflections: May 2015
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- Letter to the editor: Current diversity plan just another dead-end
- Understanding the effects of Governor Walker’s UW System budget cut on the cost of instruction and tuition
- UW students stuck with cost that taxpayers used to cover
- Letter to the Editor: UW should use all available means to create a better campus climate
- Wisconsin won’t admit it, but its new egalitarian policy leads to grading quotas
- Creating a “Teaching/Learning” Evaluation Instrument For Proficiencies-Based Economics Courses
- Madness in Madison: The University of Wisconsin’s latest diversity plan calls for “equity” in high-demand majors and the distribution of grades
- Memorial Day Reflections: May 2014
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On UW-Madison’s 2015 Diversity Implementation Plan
The two essays that follow present my analysis of the 2015 report on Madison’s Diversity Implementation Plan. The essay immediately below, not previously printed, points out the plan’s additional deficiencies. The earlier and related essay, published previously in the Badger … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, change, diversity, effect, equity, grade, inclusion, Inclusive Excellence, R.E.E.L. Change, UW-Madison
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Why Act 55’s changes don’t make sense for UW
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate as well as the Board of Regents are grappling with the challenge of responding to the provisions of the Legislature’s Act 55. That legislation calls for wholesale change in policies that deal with tenure, post-tenure review, … Continue reading
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Tagged Act 55, Board of Regents, Faculty Senate, governor, knowledge, policy, PROFS, UW-Madison, Wisconsin Idea
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Lest We Forget—Memorial Day Reflections: May 2015
Honoring Memorial Day faces ever greater challenges—the proliferating array of activities that compete with the purpose of that day, to honor those who fought and died fighting this country’s wars. Among these activities here in Madison are the weekend’s “World’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Decoration Day, General Order #11, Gettysburg Address, Lest We Forget, Memorial Day, North Cape, veterans
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Enlist Scott Walker in the ‘Right-on-Crime’ movement
May 11, 2015 The Cap Times Gov. Scott Walker could solidify his conservative credentials by signing on with the “Right on Crime” movement touted by archconservative Grover Norquist. That movement seeks to reduce prison incarceration rates, cut prison system costs, … Continue reading
Understanding the effects of Governor Walker’s UW System budget cut on the cost of instruction and tuition
March 10, 2015 WISCAPE Reactions to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cut of $300 million for the UW System in the next biennium, while strong in their opposition, have not been clearly focused. To better understand the effects of these … Continue reading
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Tagged budget bill, budget cut, GPR, instructional costs, public authority status, Scott Walker, taxpayer funding, tuitiion, UW System
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UW students stuck with cost that taxpayers used to cover
March 8, 2015 The Wisconsin State Journal Lost in discussions of Gov. Scott Walker’s $300 million budget cut for the University of Wisconsin System is how the sharing of the costs of instruction will be shifted from taxpayers to students … Continue reading
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Tagged budget cut, cost of instruction, quality, Scott Walker, taxpayer, tuition increase, Univerisity of Wisconsin
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Letter to the Editor: UW should use all available means to create a better campus climate
January 30, 2015 The Badger Herald Lack of evidence about the state of Madison’s “campus climate” proved to be the real surprise at Tuesday afternoon’s Diversity and Inclusion discussion. Remarks by Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and … Continue reading
Wisconsin won’t admit it, but its new egalitarian policy leads to grading quotas
December 17, 2014 The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy In July, I wrote about the pressure that University of Wisconsin officials have been exerting on the faculty for greater “equity” on campus. My “Madness in Madison” essay … Continue reading
Creating a “Teaching/Learning” Evaluation Instrument For Proficiencies-Based Economics Courses
Creating a Teaching-Learning Evaluation Instrument For Proficiencies-Based Economics Courses A slightly abbreviated version of this essay will appear in the Summer 2014 issue of Liberal Education.
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