The professor who made headlines for comparing Scott Walker to Adolph Hitler has been trying to discourage students from attending the University of Wisconsin — yes, the school where she works.

In a very strange, almost unbelievably unprofessional move, Sara Goldrick-Rab tweeted at a high-school graduate who had posted a picture of himself and his friends making the Wisconsin “W” with their hands and expressing their excitement to attend UW in the fall — to tell them that they should rethink going.

Why? Well, according to Goldrick-Rab, the state budget signed by that evil, Hitler-ish Republican governor Scott Walker on Sunday was going to make the school a terrible place. (It included provisions allowing schools to lay off tenured faculty “when deemed necessary” for budget or program-change reasons.)

In Goldrick-Rab’s response to the student’s May 31 photo post — which, by the way, was captioned “On (to) Wisconsin! @UWMadison #FutureBadgers” — Goldrick-Rab tweeted: “I hate to bring bad news, but…” followed by a link to an article about the potential negative impacts of the budget.

When another student responded “no one cares sara” (sic), she snapped back: “Oh good. I thought you want a degree of value. Too bad.”

#related#Goldrick-Rab’s tweets are dated June 7 — a full week after the student posted that picture — which suggests that she may have been actually searching for posts by people with Badger pride in an attempt to dissuade them from attending the institution that pays her salary. Well, at least for now — the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that the educational policy professor is currently looking for another job.

National Review was tipped off to the professor’s bizarre actions by an e-mail from the school’s College Republicans group, which also issued a statement about the matter on its Facebook page on Wednesday that asked the university to address the incident.

In response to the controversy, UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank released a statement explaining that “any institution has its critics” but that “especially in social media, it’s important to remember that the loudest voice usually isn’t the most accurate.”

— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.