{"id":991,"date":"2007-01-04T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T10:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/04\/whats-the-matter-with-wisconsi\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T10:08:45","slug":"whats-the-matter-with-wisconsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/04\/whats-the-matter-with-wisconsi\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Matter with Wisconsin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> reports on an impressively bad idea from the upper midwest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“If we can’t lure them here, let’s tether them here,” said Mark O’Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association, a lobbying organization, and a member of the Commission on Enhancing the Mission of the Wisconsin Colleges, a group created to advise the network of 13 two-year colleges in the state.The commission, appointed by the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges in August, submitted a report late last month calling for an investment in new scholarships pegged to residency requirements post-graduation. “If we can’t lure people to our state, smart, young people, let’s give them education and then require them to stay here a certain number of years,” O’Connell said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have a 9am lab today (this article, like most of my daytime posts, comes to you via the “schedule posts” feature), so I was lamenting the fact that I wouldn’t have time to rant about what a silly idea this is. Happily, though, the Dean Dad did it for me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside Higher Ed reports on an impressively bad idea from the upper midwest: “If we can’t lure them here, let’s tether them here,” said Mark O’Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association, a lobbying organization, and a member of the Commission on Enhancing the Mission of the Wisconsin Colleges, a group created to advise… Continue reading What’s the Matter with Wisconsin?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-economics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}