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I just received this email from Chad Crocker, who I guess is in charge of the Physical Plant: The Health and Safety office has scheduled an asbestos abatement in the west mechanical room on the first floor of Pray-Harrold. Abatement activities will begin on Tuesday 12/4/07 and will be completed by the end of the day. Please contact [...] The campus community is invited to participate in an open forum with each of the candidates for Executive Director of Public Safety. All forums will be held from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in 201 Welch as follows: Monday, December 3 – Lloyd Collins Chief of Police, City of South Lyon Police Department Wednesday, December 5 – Adam [...] Back before the term started, members of the EMU faculty, myself included, organized an “Assembly of the Faculty” to discuss vital issues for EMU. I spoke on the matter of “creating transparency” at Eastern. I argued that the reasons so many problems erupt into scandals at EMU is because of the willingness of upper [...] There is a very good (detailed and kind of on the long-side of things) in today’s Inside Higher Ed that everyone at EMU who is concerned about the crappy er, problematic email service we have here, “When e-mail is outsourced.” The upshot of the article is that outsourcing things like e-mail to operations like [...] An ad soliciting applicants for the open EMU presidency is posted to the online CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION today. Copied below: PRESIDENT Eastern Michigan University The Board of Regents and the Presidential Search Advisory Committee announce a search to recruit the next President of Eastern Michigan University.Founded in 1849, Eastern Michigan University is a public [...] I should have posted this yesterday but I just didn’t see the article until now: Inside Higher Ed has a piece titled “The Pilgrimage Home,” which is about different rules at different schools for the Thanksgiving break– to have or not have classes on Wednesday, for example. I know that EMU has played around with this [...] From an undisclosed location on the road to see in-laws, sitedad wishes one and all a Happy Thanksgiving. May you and yours enjoy some turkey, tofurkey, or whatever is the tradition with your family. In any event, I also thought I’d point folks to a couple of articles about the Department of Education’s report on [...] Today’s online CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION covers the murder of a chemistry graduate student near the campus of the University of Chicago, and its coverage worth reading. I have pasted the article below, along with some of the “comments” appended to it. The student had just defended his dissertation. There is a good article about the decreasing number of tenure-track faculty, reduced to around 30% of all college teachers. There are bills being introduced in some states to reverse that proportion, which seems like an excellent proposition to me. Lecturers are not only poorly paid, over-worked, non-tenured, and without almost any benefits (from basic health care [...] I’d like to give readers, posters and the general EMU community an update on the Laura Dickinson Memorial Scholarship that I first proposed in August. At that time I thought and still feel strongly, that this scholarship fund would be a way to honor Laura’s memory at EMU and provide some healing for those of [...] |
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