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[quote=Anonymous][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]

No, Walker and the GOP gutted the UW budget and forced cuts in areas that materially impacted the classroom experience and competitive salaries for faculty.[/quote]

What was there even to cut?? The state only provides 10% of the budget. And the good faculty didn't leave, if you search all the famous professors, they're still there. The reality is, UW's faculty will essentially never give up their positions, even if they are paid nothing, because there is a very limited number of schools which can compete with Wisconsin in the first place. Why leave, if you're already at the best?[/quote]

If they were that great, they would get poached by other top schools. Especially if they were working for free. Get real. [/quote]

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