{"id":993,"date":"2010-11-29T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=993"},"modified":"2010-11-29T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:45:00","slug":"nass-named-chair-of-colleges-universities-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Nass Named Chair of Colleges &#038; Universities Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/steve-nass-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1003\" title=\"steve nass 2\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/steve-nass-21-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"steve nass 2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/steve-nass-21-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/steve-nass-21-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/steve-nass-21.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>As expected, Representative Stephen Nass (R-La Grange) was named chair of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee last week. Nass chaired the committee in 2007 and 2008, and has long been regarded as a vocal critic of UW-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Finkelmeyer of <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/\"><em>The Capital Times<\/em><\/a> spoke with Mike Mikalsen, legislative aide to Rep. Nass, about the upcoming legislative session and writes about it in his <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/education\/campus_connection\/article_284cbbfe-f9a0-11df-a2ce-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story\">Campus Connection blog<\/a>. According to Mikalsen, Nass would like to cap tuition increases at 4 percent per year, less than half the average 9 percent increase over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mikalsen also criticizes campuses that emphasize partisan politics and put indoctrination above education, noting that Nass prefers &#8220;viewpoint neutrality.&#8221; Mikalsen also expressed concern over admission standards, saying that the current process is &#8220;more worried about diversity than academic quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With regard to furloughs, Mikalsen admits that furloughs for federally-funded employees may not be fair, but shared sacrifice might be necessary. Finkelmeyer also writes that Walker will likely require more than 8 furlough days per year in the upcoming biennium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, Representative Stephen Nass (R-La Grange) was named chair of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee last week. Nass chaired the committee in 2007 and 2008, and has long been regarded as a vocal critic of UW-Madison. Todd Finkelmeyer&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=993\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,17],"tags":[24,18,137],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2011-13-state-budget","tag-legislature","tag-uw-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}