re: #161 ObserverArt

Dark, have you any feel for why Walker is hell bent on cutting funding for the great Wisconsin University and other colleges in that state?

It make no business sense, so to me it seems political, and that can only mean one thing, its long-held liberal/progressive thinking is some kind of threat.

It’s a quasi-privatization, and it is to a good degree political. But its much less about threat removal than about a school of thought (forgive the phrase, its the best fit possible, despite the subject matter) on how to reform higher education. In ultra-short form, the idea is that by removing government direct funding universities can be induced to get rid of wasteful programs and overhead and focus on providing useful education. The definition of ‘useful’ of course depends on who’s doing the defining.