Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Apr 8 Everything about the Universities of Wisconsin firing its system president at this moment is fascinating. The Republican state Senate is threatening not to confirm regents, while the retiring Democratic governor is oddly silent. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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The WI Legislature has been broken for almost 20 years as a consequence of obscene gerrymandering. Here, the vast majority of regents have already had their confirmations blocked. The threat is that the Senate can technically remove unconfirmed regents. But then the Governor just appoints new ones.