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.
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The union voted this week to approve the agreement 139-74, said Dave Wilcox, president of [...]
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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, 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 [...] 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 the Echo are, as [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 a year [...] 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 it [...] 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 the [...] Taylor’s pretrial held to June 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 Orange Amir Taylor III’s defense to [...] |
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