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Wisconsin

CatholicEdHead

(9,740 posts)

1. ALEC out of touch with business community

Reply to Still In Wisconsin (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:17 PM

Mar 2015

If the idea of turning liberal arts land grant universities into trade school equivalents. They must be deep in their bubble to push this. Businesses prefer well rounded employees capable of independent thought to do projects properly.

There will be blowback from this even if they keep using Wisconsin as test cases for GOP policies.

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Robin Vos no longer supports giving the UW autonomy...but still wants huge cuts [View all] Still In Wisconsin Mar 2015 OP

ALEC out of touch with business community CatholicEdHead Mar 2015 #1

14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm) blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #2

+1 Scuba Mar 2015 #4

+1 ewagner Mar 2015 #7

Vos has always had a sore spot for the Univerisity and has always wanted to gut tenure and shareed riversedge Mar 2015 #3

Autonomy means doing what the Republicans tell you, and taking the blame for it too. Scuba Mar 2015 #5

Of course that is what they want. AllyCat Mar 2015 #6