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According to the Eastern Echo, it would appear that the governor signed the deal: “EMU awarded $31.5 million for Pray-Harrold renovations.” This is basically all good and old news, though I’m not sure I agree that we’re completely “done” raising money here. Heck, with the way the markets have been lately, the state might pull some “take-back” scheme or something.
Anyway, I was more interested in something else that comes up in the Echo article:
Continue reading “EMU awarded $31.5 million for Pray-Harrold renovations” (well, for at least half the building)
In the “where are they now?” category of things: John Fallon is one of four finalists for the job as president of North Country Community College in New York: NCCC narrows presidential search to four. This brief article from the local media in northeastern New York emphasizes Fallon’s past job as president of SUNY-Potsdam, [...]
As Mark Higbee noted recently, there’s a story in today’s AANews about Pray-Harrold renovations, “Legislature grants EMU request for funding of Pray-Harrold renovation.” Now, not to take anything away from Susan Martin and this new era of transparency, but this request has been in the pipeline for about 10 years. Martin et al pushed it across the finish line, but there were a lot of others– including Kirkpatrick and Fallon, frankly– who did some of the heavy lifting.
Anyways, it’s good news, even if a real start to ground-breaking is years off. Maybe years and years off.
What is the best guess as to when it will happen? No one knows. But just to keep it interesting, I would like to propose a friendly contest.
Continue reading Introducing the “Pray-Harrold renovation finally begins” pool
Here’s the info from an email Susan Martin sent around this afternoon:
I am pleased to report that the State legislature has passed Senate Bill 511 which includes a $31.5 million capital outlay appropriation for the renovation of Pray-Harrold. The bill now will move to the Governor’s desk for signature and we hope that [...]
As I often do on a Friday afternoon, I was doing a YouTube search for “emus,” and I came across this very old footage of the British comic Rod Hull with his puppet, Emu:
I have vague memories of this from my childhood, and there are actually a number of Hull and Emu [...]
The emus are playing the Northern Illinois Huskies here on Saturday at noon. It’s all part of homecoming week; by the way, what’s with the western theme, anyway? It strikes me as a little weird since the last thing I think about as being a part of this area is anything having to do [...]
I came across this article from a blog I read on a regular basis that is written by someone who teaches at the University of Illinois: “Beware the Button Police,” from Inside Higher Ed. Here are the opening paragraphs:
Sporting an Obama or McCain button? Driving a car with one of the campaigns’ [...]
This isn’t the kind of thing I would normally post here on EMUTalk.org, but this $700 billion or so bailout that is necessary to save the U.S. and the world economy from collapse is most certainly big news that might hurt higher ed, or, at least according to the opening paragraph of this “for pay” article in the CHE, this bailout might help banks loaning to students and thus help higher ed.
So I thought it might be something worthy of discussion here.
Continue reading What else could $700 billion buy?
This just in from Pam Young:
EMU’s new e-mail system, EagleMail, will be implemented in 10 days (Oct. 3). Most users will not need to do anything except be sure their password is up to date.
Those who use an e-mail client such as Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, Entourage or Mac Mail will need to change a few security settings. Those who wish to forward their EMU e-mail will need to set up forwarding once the new system is live. An update on the system is here:
http://www.emich.edu/email/092208update.html
Clearly, the “contest” for naming the new email system was rigged, and/or the only people who voted for this were marketing wonks who like Eagles. EagleMail is a dumb name, period. Henceforth, I will refer to the new system as EmuMail or– just to simplify the abbreviation and keep everyone happy, “e-mail.”
In any event, for most EMU email users, the system should just work. But it isn’t completely clear to me when this is going to be “turned on” for everyone (wasn’t the original plan to get people onto this new system in stages?), and there are also some things in the “update” document that people should read:
Continue reading Repent, for EagleMail (shoulda been EmuMail) is near!
This got forwarded to me via one of the mailing lists I’m on: Judgment Day, a long piece from the New York Times Magazine this past Sunday, Among other things, it quotes a U of M researcher on student evaluations, and it tells the story of a non-tenure-track instructor/professor who was not hired back [...]
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