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The Echo has an article on the presidential search, “Regents continue search for university president,” which is rather worrisome. Apparently, the Regents believe that appointing a president after most faculty and students have left after the end of the Winter term will allow for sufficient input from the campus community. Stapleton said he hopes it will [...] Computational Thinking is the title of a talk given by Dr Jeannette Wing this Wednesday, April 2, 3pm, Ballroom B Student Center. Abstract: Computational thinking is a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. The two A’s of computational thinking, abstraction and automation, help us to solve problems, create designs, and understand human behavior. Based on [...] I just heard on WEMU that the Orange Taylor retrial begins today, which I find kind of odd only because I had not read about this in the paper or heard it on any of the local TV stations or what have you. Of course, Taylor is being retried for the murder of Laura Dickinson [...] On Wednesday, the 2008 winners of the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Awards were announced at a very nice ceremony in the Student Center. The winners are outstanding representatives of the EMU faculty. The awards were presented by previous award winners for each category, and the comments were touching and indicative of the breadth and [...] I haven’t heard much lately about the ongoing search for a new EMU president, rumor or otherwise. I have heard kind of mixed reviews on the finalists for the job– some good ones and some, um, not so good ones– and I have heard that the hope is to have these folks on campus [...] Last week, there were a couple of burglaries reported at UMich of semi-precious gems from display cases. Today they arrested an EMU student who attempted to have them appraised not too far from UMich campus. They also seized several knives and have submitted some suspected drug residue for testing from his on-campus apartment.. I don’t know how many EMU faculty have participated in the HERI (Higher Education Research Institute) survey. There are a few questions at the end of the survey dealing with specific EMU issues — e.g., should faculty evaluate academic leadership (DH, dean, provost, president) regularly — that are worthwhile. I suppose it’s [...] I make this request because of the email that was sent out by Dr Loppnow. It reads - Please take some time out of your busy lives to help save someone else’s. EMU is pleased to be partnering with the American Red Cross by hosting blood drives on April 1, 2 and 3 from 12 noon [...] The headline for this post just about says it all. I cannot absolutely confirm that this is true, but I’ve heard it enough, from people I consider reliable and well informed, so I believe it overwhelmingly likely to be true; I’ve not seen documents that prove this (but I’m told they exist). Further, [...] My RSS Feed reader turned up two different articles the other day I thought I’d share here since they’ve been a topic of discussion– sometimes heated discussion– over the last six months. “Text, trust, and third parties” comes from Inside Higher Ed, and “Hopes for wireless cities fade as internet providers pull out” from [...] |
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