{"id":7152,"date":"2015-02-19T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2015-02-19T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:53:05","slug":"on-point-with-tom-ashbrook-testing-the-wisconsin-idea-of-public-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7152","title":{"rendered":"On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Testing The &#8216;Wisconsin Idea&#8217; Of Public Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/on-point-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7153\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/on-point-logo-150x141.jpg\" alt=\"on point logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/on-point-logo-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/on-point-logo-160x150.jpg 160w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/on-point-logo.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s\u00a0first hour of <a href=\"http:\/\/onpoint.wbur.org\/\">On Point<\/a>, a National Public Radio radio talk show hosted by Tom Ashbrook, featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/onpoint.wbur.org\/2015\/02\/19\/university-of-wisconsin-scott-walker-cuts-2016-gop\">discussion<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wisconsinidea.wisc.edu\/\">Wisconsin Idea<\/a>, Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7020\">budget cuts<\/a> for the University of Wisconsin System, and how they relate to the the governor&#8217;s national political ambitions. Audio is below.<\/p>\n<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor <a href=\"http:\/\/history.wisc.edu\/faculty_js.htm\">John Sharpless<\/a> and academic staff\u00a0member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiscape.wisc.edu\/wiscape\/people\/staff\/noel-radomski\">Noel Radomski<\/a>, director of WISCAPE, were joined on the panel by two members of the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> staff &#8212; higher education reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/columnists\/28319939.html\">Karen Herzog<\/a> and columnist\/blogger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/news\/the-smart-set.html\">Christian Schneider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframewidth=100%height=124scrolling=noframeborder=nosrc=\/\/embed.wbur.org\/player\/onpoint\/2015\/02\/19\/university-of-wisconsin-scott-walker-cuts-2016-gop\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.wbur.org\/player\/onpoint\/2015\/02\/19\/university-of-wisconsin-scott-walker-cuts-2016-gop\" width=\"100%\" height=\"124\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s\u00a0first hour of On Point, a National Public Radio radio talk show hosted by Tom Ashbrook, featured a discussion of the Wisconsin Idea, Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s proposed budget cuts for the University of Wisconsin System, and how they relate to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7152\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,13,17],"tags":[108,31,40],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-national-context","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2015-17-state-budget","tag-scott-walker","tag-wisconsin-idea","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}