As someone who graduated with a degree in Computer Science from UW in 2011, I am deeply concerned by the proposed cuts and alterations to the legislative protections that have been granted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in this year’s proposed budget. In particular, I am distressed at the potential alteration of tenure protections. While it is true that Wisconsin is unique in that the state actually places tenure protections into state law, I fear the language of the proposed change to tenure will actually put our state’s universities behind other institutions in terms of faculty retention, and will potentially damage the quality of our state’s world-class academic research, scientific or otherwise.
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