It had been a few weeks since I spent much time thinking about Gov. Scott Walker and Biddy Martin?s attempt to break the University of Wisconsin-Madison away from the UW System. But on Sunday, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a commentary headlined “Why flagship public universities should stay public.”
The opinion piece is penned by Kevin Carey, the policy director of Education Sector, a think tank in Washington. It examines the topic of public flagship institutions looking to garner more autonomy from state oversight, and focuses much of its attention on the debate that took place earlier this year in Wisconsin.