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MSN’s Encarta has a page up today looking at schools that have gone corporate – including branding campaigns. It’s not the best written article out there – for one thing, it only pays lip service to the idea that this might not be the greatest model for education, and then the idea is refuted by someone [...] The AA NEWS tonight contains an obituary for Donald Anderson, the Director of EMU’s office of Access Services. He died Dec. 25 at his home in Ypsilanti. As the obituary states, “His life’s passion was working for full inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. His career involved helping to provide access [...] Sorry to break the holiday cheer with a nod to the often unwelcome news, but there is a good editorial in the Grand Rapids Press today, “Expensive Mistakes.” In it, the authors list the various costs of the Dickinson rape/murder cover up and then remark: “Those are the bills that can be quantified. Other costs [...] The sitedad (how I love referring to myself both by nickname and in the third person) will be leaving town for the upcoming holidays, pretty much until next year. I’ve decided to not take a computer with me, mostly so I can try to catch up on reading and just generally lay about and/or [...] The University website, as of sometime this afternoon, contains a press release from Ward Mullins of the university public information office with the news that Eastern has been fined $357,500 by the US Dept of Education for violating the Clery Act. The press release does not specify which violations produced fines, or how much per [...] I (along with just about everyone else at EMU, I assume) received an email about a special message from Freeman Hendrix inviting me to join the EMU Caucus, essentially an organizational effort to get various EMU stakeholders together to help lobby Lansing and potentially beyond. Not a bad idea, but the music in the [...] Time for a little Christmas present to the emutalk community. Check out http://jremmers.org/Ragtime/ for emeritus EMU computer science professor John Remmers playing ragtime. Multiple selections. Do you think his mom was disappointed he became a computer science professor instead of a concert pianist? Also see http://youtube.com/profile?user=EMUGuitar for EMU guitar students doing their thing. Pretty inspiring to this [...] Today’s snowfall makes for good sledding conditions in the Ypsilanti area. In the city, the two best sledding hills are probably those in Riverside Park, which is visible from the Cross Street bridge in Depot Town and very well used; and the hill behind and just slightly east of Ypsilanti high school (accessible thru the [...] Today the Student Leader Group held a press conference and here are two articles that have been written about it so far. EMU students optimistic about university’s future Some quotes from the article: “A group of student leaders at EMU conveyed a message of optimism Friday, saying the university has improved its security and communications procedures.” “Chris Bylone, president [...] “UPDATED: EMU to pay slain student’s family $2.5 million,” an extensive piece in the Ann Arbor News that I thought deserved a new post. Two (among many) things I think are worth noting in the piece: first, to quote directly, “Dickinson’s family had not sued EMU, but the settlement was reached to [...] |
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