EMU, 2nd-largest union agree on contract Regents must OK 4-year pact; they meet June 19 Friday, May 25, 2007 BY GEOFF LARCOM News Staff Reporter Eastern Michigan University and the union that represents its professional, technical and office workers have reached agreement on a four-year contract. Â The union voted this week to approve [...]
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Some thoughts after the CAC meeting on 5/24, with guests Janice Stroh, Karen Simpkins present to talk about security on campus, the master key ring, and thefts from academic buildings. This is not a report on the meeting. The administration seems paralyzed in dealing with the rash of thefts on campus beyond exhorting the community that “everyone is responsible for security” and that administration is planning on paying a consulting firm to do a comprehensive analysis of EMU’s security in the near future. Oh, and the purchase of the “lo-jack” for laptops (I forget the name of the system). (Why a perp couldn’t change the BIOS settings to boot from CD, reformat the disk, then install a new OS, I don’t know. It’s what I would do if I were a bad guy and wanted the laptop for myself. Or just pawn it a hundred miles away and caveat emptor.) My perception of the reason for the administration paralysis is that 1) they don’t know whether the theft of the master key ring is actually involved in the current thefts, 2) if it is the master key ring that’s involved, then the cost of rekeying all campus doors seems prohibitive, 3) no apparent pattern in the thefts. At least they say that they have analyzed the data for patterns, but their manner of delivering that statement did not fill me with confidence. Also, don’t forget, friends, that Continue reading Thefts on campus — thoughts after a faculty meeting with Stroh & Simpkins Everyone, excepting faculty and a few academic administrators, may be surprised to learn that we have very few (basically, no) general policies on majors and minors (the courses and prerequisite structures) at EMU. The question of standards has been largely left to departments. I believe this is the common procedure across all universities, especially those in the top and middle tier. Curricula grow almost organically out of the historical precedents of the departments from which professors were graduated and the intellectual culture of the discipline. It’s a good set-up, probably, and has worked reasonably well for, oh, 700 years or so. Still, there are problems. There have been a number of news articles about the master keys lately, but so far very little real action on the part of the administration to improve the situation or to warn staff and faculty of the ongoing vulnerability of locked spaces to burglary, or much worse.   The article and editorial in [...] From the AA News, “Trial under way for EMU rape suspect.” Of course, this is not the same case as the current Orange Taylor case regarding the Dickinson murder. I had kind of forgotten about this case and the circumstances for why James Holland Jr. was being charged with rape and a series of [...] As I have mentioned a couple of times before, I gave a presentation recently (Sunday, actually) where I talked about EMUtalk.org. The conference was the annual Computers and Writing conference, this year hosted at Wayne State University. My presentation was titled “Situation, Exigence, and Blogging: The EMU-AAUP Faculty Strike of 2006 and The Birth [...] From the Ann Arbor News comes this article, “Senior class fuels rise of EMU softball Eagles have come a long way since 2002.” Here’s some of the opening paragraphs: Five years ago, Eastern Michigan’s softball program couldn’t have been further from the NCAA Tournament. The Eagles lost 28 games in 2002 and 38 more [...] One of my colleagues was sort of complaining to me about EMUTalk.org the other day, asking why there isn’t the positive things about EMU there? I do agree that it is far too easy for this site to turn into a combination of a “bitch fest” and a “pity party” far too often, and [...] EMU-AAUP president Howard Bunsis sent around an email about a variety of different union issues the other day, and one of the things it addressed were the ongoing concerns about security on campus (the other issues have to do with domestic partner health care benefits and paying for health insurance, which will start in [...] Taylor’s pretrial held to June By Dan DuChene, Staff Writer PUBLISHED: May 17, 2007  The pretrial for the suspect accused of raping and murdering an Eastern Michigan University student, in December, was adjourned until June 13. Originally scheduled for May 9, in downtown Ann Arbor, the pretrial was adjourned to allow time for [...] |
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