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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Wisconsin took a dive about the time margarine became a big deal.[/quote]

The real dive for Wisconsin occurred when Scott Walker was governor. Like DeSantis, he attacked the state university to "own the libs." I suspect a similar fate will befall the University of Florida. It's hard to recruit good faculty and top students when the politicians are actively trying to undermine the state flagship.

It's why the top private universities will always be qualitatively better than state flagships over the long run. They don't have the same pressures - from both progressives and the right wing - that state schools need to deal with every year.[/quote]

Another myth. Wisconsin hasn’t declined all that much, they still have some of the best graduates schools in the nation. What decline they have experienced is not because of Walker, though his idiocy didn’t help. Incompetency is the main cause, though endowment management, hiring management, ignoring undergraduates etc. The budget cuts never mattered, because the state was hardly giving anything anyway; less than 15% of the budget is from state funding.[/quote]

And Virginia Tech is racing ahead in the rankings, soon to catch up and exceed Wisconsin. The Badger will fall to the Castrated Turkey!

It has declined compared to Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan and 9 other public schools ranked ahead of it.  It is what it is. [/quote][/quote]

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