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UW’s Blank Opposes Civil Rights on Campus

Posted by at 0907, 15 Dec 1616 | 1 Comment
, Rebecca Blank, University of Wisconsin Madison

It’s like watching someone opposing integrated schools in 1965. So far behind the times… So rooted in irrational bigotry…

“We remain absolutely opposed to any changes that would weaken the current prohibition on concealed weapons in campus buildings,” Blank said in a statement.

“Many parents would have concerns about sending their children to a campus that may have guns in dorm rooms or at football games,”

I love how in the same story about Blank’s concerns that parents “would have” concerns about sending their kids to UW if there was campus carry, there is narry a word about sending kids to a campus where this is celebrated:

Student activists plan to pass out plastic dildos on campus, emulating the University of Texas at Austin’s “Cocks Not Glocks” campaign.

Blank Won’t Layoff Tenured Faculty

Posted by at 1533, 9 Apr 1616 | 2 Comments
Rebecca Blank, University of Wisconsin Madison

That’s a bit of a blanket statement.

UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said Friday that the university won’t lay off tenured faculty so long as it remains a leading research school.

“Top-ranked universities always take care of their tenured faculty,” Blank said in a blog post. “As long as this university is a top-ranked institution we will behave like other top-ranked universities. That means we don’t layoff tenured faculty. Period.”

Blank published the post after a monthslong battle over the future of tenure at the state’s flagship institution came to a close Friday when the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a new policy for faculty layoffs on the campus.

Nowhere in that statement did she mention educating kids. That is no longer a priority at UW Madison. That’s OK, but it’s important to remember their priority when debating policy and the taxpayers’ obligations to it.

Even as it is, the commitment to never layoff tenured faculty is far too absolute to be good management. What that statement means is that she is willing to watch the university burn to the ground around her before she lays off a single tenured faculty member – to hell with all of the other stakeholders.

Let’s hope that Chancellor Blank is just engaging in a bit of hyperbole to soothe a skittish staff and that she doesn’t actually mean what she said.

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