Professors on University of Wisconsin System campuses occasionally get into trouble for what they say in class, on social media or on the Internet.
Rachel Slocum, a UW-La Crosse assistant professor of geography, urged 18 students in an online course last October to do whatever they could, despite limited access to data for an assignment, because the federal government had partially shut down as a result of a budget impasse.
The message didn’t get her into trouble. The way she said it did.
“Hi everyone,” she emailed the students “Some of the data gathering assignment will be impossible to complete until the Republican/Tea Party controlled House of Representatives agrees to fund the government.”