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Wisconsin Professor Gets New Job After STALKING RANDOM FRESHMEN ON TWITTER, Hitler Comparisons

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor who randomly stalked teenagers just out of high school on Twitter over the summer and tweeted that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker resembles Adolf Hitler has announced she will take a new job at a different school.

The professor, Sara Goldrick-Rab, appears to have followed through on a threat to quit her taxpayer-funded job if legislators changed a law which had made Wisconsin America’s only state law providing statute-protected tenure.

Goldrick-Rab, 39, has accepted a faculty position — in sociology and higher education policy — at Temple University. She’ll start at the Philadelphia public school on July 1.

In a March 8 blog post that is 166 percent of the length of the United States Declaration of Independence, Goldrick-Rab argues that Wisconsin is now a terrible state because universities — not the state government — can set their own tenure policies.

“I look forward to joining a university and a state that embraces its responsibility for providing the earned tenure protections required to rebuild public higher education,” she writes.

“The last year has been extraordinarily difficult. The only way I could survive was by consciously choosing hope over despair. As Noam Chomsky says, ‘Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.'”

“McCarthyism is alive and well — especially here in Wisconsin,” Goldrick-Rab, who did not lose her job after stalking random teenagers, anguishes.

“#FakeTenure” “fools even the most intelligent people into believing it is real,” she also gripes. “Except it is not. Following passage of #FakeTenure by the UW Regents later this week, firing me would be quite easy.”

Last summer, Goldrick-Rab decided it would be a good idea to troll recently-graduated high school students roughly half her age who were preparing to enroll at Wisconsin’s famous flagship school. She warned that she and a bunch of other professors would all quit their jobs.

The Daily Caller obtained screenshots of at least some of Goldrick-Rab’s tweets and subsequent replies from the young recipients. (RELATED: HERE ARE THE TWEETS The Wisconsin Professor Sent To Random Freshmen After Comparing Scott Walker To Hitler)

In her tweet storm to high school graduates who had no idea who she is, Goldrick-Rab suggested that “many” incoming freshmen at Wisconsin-Madison were “very concerned” about changes to tenure law.

She also threatened these high school students that changes made by state lawmakers will cause a mass exodus of professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Eventually, at least one tweet recipient responded to Goldrick-Rab by saying “no one cares sara.”

“Who are you lol” another student also replied.

The University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. recipient responded by mocking kids just out of high school. “I thought you want a degree of value,” she wrote to a teenager. “Too bad.”

One person Goldrick-Rab found when she searched Twitter for teenagers had posted a photograph of himself and friends in caps and gowns at a high school graduation. The Twitter user was proudly making a “W” with his hands in the photo.

“On (to) Wisconsin!” the tweet read. The tweet also said @UWMadison and #FutureBadgers.

“Neither he nor any of his friends had ever had any contact with this professor before and had no clue who she was,” a Wisconsin College Republicans representative told The Daily Caller.

Goldrick-Rab later defended her random tweets to people fresh out of high school she does not know.

The professor also used her Twitter account to explain her theory about how Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker strongly resembles Adolf Hitler because Walker advocated a state budget repealing state tenure guarantees and slashing higher-education spending. (RELATED: Taxpayer-Funded Professor: ‘Terrifying’ ‘Similarities’ Between Scott Walker And HITLER)

Goldrick-Rab later attempted to hide her tweets from The Daily Caller, which is odd because there is no way to prevent the general public — including anyone who is “blocked” — from viewing the contents of a public Twitter account. (RELATED: Wisconsin Professor Who Stalked Teens On Twitter Also Doesn’t Understand Twitter)

Wisconsin-Madison is ranked 41st among America’s national universities by U.S. News.

Temple is ranked as the 115th national university — just behind the University of Dayton — by U.S. News.

Wisconsin-Madison’s board of regents is still drafting its new tenure policy, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The image in the Journal Sentinel story about Goldrick-Rab’s new job shows her in an office, holding a cat.

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