It is now official, but in case you are wondering, the tenured faculty at the flagship Madison campus get their own special campus-specific policy that protects something like real tenure but only for themselves.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/11/u-wisconsin-board-regents-approves-new-tenure-policies-despite-faculty-concerns -----------------------snip John Robert Behling, board vice president and chair of the tenure policy task force, objected to Evers’s proposal, however, saying that the creation of another committee would diminish the “flexibility, flexibility, flexibility” campus chancellors need to make decisions in light of the $250 million cut to higher education in the current state budget. [...] James M. M. Hartwick, professor of curriculum and instruction and Faculty Senate chair at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, said via email that he was “shocked and appalled that the board would not adopt a single amendment that the all the elected faculty representatives and all the faculty members on the [task force] requested.” [...] Evers’s amendments weren’t necessarily game changing, he said in an interview, but if passed would have sent a clear signal that the board wasn’t an ideological arm of the state government that slashed tenure protections in the first place. Instead, he said, many board members’ comments seemed to echo those of state politicians, particularly their use of the terms “flexibility,” “tool” and “accountability.” “The regents made a strategic error and it’s going to come back to haunt them,” Radomski said. He predicted that program closures would soon begin at the state’s regional campuses, bringing even more negative attention to the university system and further impacting its ability to recruit and retain top faculty. [...] The board will next consider whether a Madison-specific tenure policy <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/03/u-wisconsin-madison-approves-faculty-backed-tenure-policy>adopted in November is in line with the new system-wide policies. Radomski said he thought it would pass, if only to allow the regents to save face with faculty members in light of Thursday's vote.
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