Just when it seemed that the political conflict and intrigue over public higher education in Wisconsin could not get any more intense or convoluted, it did. Thrust into the tangled mix of controversy over employee union policies and potential governance restructuring that roiled the University of Wisconsin System this winter came word late Thursday of a Republican operative?s perceived attack on academic freedom and on one of the university?s most visible scholars, which promises to complicate an already combustible situation.
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