Update: The Board of Regents has voted to protect tenure. More coverage is soon to come.
A possible transition in faculty tenure goes before the full University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Friday morning.
It looks like Gov. Scott Walker and Republican state lawmakers are going to use the budget process to boot UW faculty tenure protections out of Wisconsin law, and put things in control of the regents.
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When the regents’ education committee discussed the potential change on Thursday, regent Jose Vasquez questioned the idea.
“I have heard things like somehow tenure impedes the regents from doing their job,” Vasquez said. “I never have experienced any instance where I have had to say, as a regent, ‘I can’t carry out my duties because the faculty blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.’”
But the committee voted 4-3 to recommend accepting tenure as a regents’ policy, and conservatives added language to make a task force discuss potential layoff procedures.
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