“This past June, American academia went into an uproar over Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget in Wisconsin, which not only cut $250 million from higher education, but also severly weakened shared faculty governance and effectively destroyed professor tenure at state universities: Specifically, any professor in the system—tenured or not—could be dismissed or laid off by the 18-member Board of Regents using maddeningly vague criteria: ‘when such an action is deemed necessary due to a budget or program decision requiring program discontinuance, curtailment, modification or redirection.'” More …