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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 [...] 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 the ability to think at multiple levels of abstraction at once, computational thinking has influenced many disciplines and should play a key role in education that will inspire future generations. Speaker: Dr Jeannette Wing is Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation’s Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate and President’s Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Food: Reception immediately following the lecture. LBC: Lecture qualifies for Gen Ed Learning Beyond the Classroom credit. Continue reading Computational Thinking: A Talk by Dr Jeannette Wing 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 yet this April. Why so very late in the school year? Well, someone in the know told me that the process just ended up taking a lot longer than the folks involved originally thought it would, but I have to wonder if part of the delay isn’t at least in part an effort to minimize campus involvement. If candidates come to campus in May, the number of students and faculty who attend these interviews is going to a heck of a lot smaller than if they had held these things in March or even April. But it is what it is. Anyway, EMU Faculty Council President Russ Larson sent around an email to faculty the other day where he and Jim Carroll (the other faculty representative on the search committee) asked for input for six or so common questions to be asked of each candidate when these folks finally do show up on campus. So, what would you ask these candidates? I’ve got a couple ideas to get the ball rolling– I hope others chime in. 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 a good [...] 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 [...] 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, it is reported that VP Stroh hired this assistant without the required approval for hiring someone, thus violating University rules. And the rate of pay would make this assistant one of the highest paid university employees — not bad work if you can get it, eh? All this, plus VP Stroh’s widely acknowledged dismal job performance over the last year, apparently explain the motivation and timing of the decision to put her on paid admin. leave. Normally I don’t repeat rumors that I can’t myself verify to be true, but the widespread concern around campus for why VP Stroh was removed from her duties requires an explanation. 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 the New York Times (you’ll probably need an account to read that one, but it’s free). The first one about campuses outsourcing their email is especially interesting here since (as I was tipped off/told the other day by a EMUTalk.org commentator who has yet to verify their email address and thus has not had their comment posted) EMU has announced (in a forum many people don’t read at all) that the two choices that mysterious committee are considering are gmail and MeritMail supported by something called Zimbra. |
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