University of Wisconsin-Madison professors are frowning at the idea of holding faculty members to new conduct standards. In the wake of controversial remarks made by Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, wanted the Assembly to ask the UW Board of Regents to review its hiring and tenure policies to make sure they adhered to “honorable academic standards of conduct.”
(Professors Murray Clayton, Mary Metz and James Jones are quoted.)