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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 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 to basic office supplies), but they are also seldom able to find full-time, tenure-track positions of their own. Ironically and tragically, that is precisely because college administrations are outsourcing the work to them rather than hiring teachers in the proper way–with the proper compensation and the proper protections–to do the work that is necessary to educate students. Continue reading Decline of the Tenure Track 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 [...] |
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