Scott Walker says UW faculty should 'teach more classes, do more work'

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St. Paul Pioneer Press:

Karen Herzog and Tom Kertscher

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

01/28/2015

 

Faculty and staff in the University of Wisconsin System should be "teaching more classes and doing more work," Gov. Scott Walker said during an interview Wednesday morning with a Milwaukee conservative radio talk show host.

 

During back to back interviews with radio talk show hosts Charlie Sykes and Jay Weber, Walker discussed how a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks would be funded, his preparations to run for president, and his state budget proposal that would cut $300 million cut in funding over two years for the UW System while granting new flexibilities in how the UW System does business.

 

Sykes asked how listeners could be sure the proposed $300 million in budget cuts "won't damage the quality of education."

 

Walker gave a lengthy answer, noting former Gov. James Doyle made similar size cuts to the UW System, though Doyle's cuts were not coupled with a tuition freeze. He said the UW would have to be "more effective, efficient."

 

Walker then told Sykes:

 

"I think you were right, your comments today on Right Wisconsin, that maybe it's time for faculty and staff to start thinking about teaching more classes and doing more work. And this authority frees up the UW administration to make those sorts of requests, which I think are needed not only here but across the country."

 

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Addendum

 

H/T DU

 

KansDem (27,012 posts)

 

4. He's playing to his right-wing base...

 

You know, the ones opposed to all that book-learning.

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Scott Walker, Presumptive 2016 Favorite

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | January 29th at 01:00 PM | 41

Forget what the polls say. Polls this far out are notoriously worthless in predicting Presidential nominees. Right now Scott Walker is sitting in the catbird’s seat for the 2016 Republican ... http://www.redstate.com/2015/01/29/scott-walker-presumptive-2016-favorite/

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Forget what the polls say. Polls this far out are notoriously worthless in predicting Presidential nominees. http://www.redstate.com/2015/01/29/scott-walker-presumptive-2016-favorite/

Thank you! This needs to be repeated daily...if not hourly for the next 8-9 months.