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From the AANews/mlive, “Eastern, other universities call for more state aid.” Not exactly a surprise that state universities would like more aid though, is it? I know that the EMU-AAUP sent around in email the speech that Howard Bunsis (who is now the treasurer of the union but who still does a lot of [...] From the Chronicle of Higher Education “blog” of sorts: “Kent State U. Dean Resigns After Police Say She Defaced a Parking Sign.” When the dean of Kent State University’s Stark campus resigned abruptly last week, a press release issued by the university, in Canton, Ohio, said she was leaving for personal reasons. But [...] From Freep.com, “Woman changes story of EMU rape, but cops not done.” Basically, the victim of the rape at Kappa Phi Alpha is now saying “she ‘probably consented,’” which sounds to me like a young person still not completely sure what happened. In the mean-time, the fraternity (which, as others have talked about here, [...] While linking to the article about the rape at the Kappa Omega Alpha house, I came across a couple of other articles that connect to some previous posts/news-bits here at EMUTalk.org. First, there is the front page story in today’s AANews, “Officials say proposed acquisition of country club by Washtenaw Community College tempting, but [...] From the AANews, “Woman reports rape at Eastern Michigan University fraternity house.” The commentary on the mlive.com site is kind of interesting. Among other things, this event is used by one writer as an example of why Ypsilanti is so “ghetto” (as if rape and/or sexual assault never ever happens over at U of [...] Kayla, a fine EMU student and regular EMUTalk.org reader/contributor, sent me an email the other day about a conference she’s organizing. It seems like a quite worthy event to me, so here it is: Do you have a VOICE? Do you want to use it? The VOICE: Advocacy in Action Conference will talk about [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me a link this morning to an article that could be an intriguing twist to the budgetary soap operas in higher ed in Michigan: from The Detroit News, Michigan schools spared from cuts: Federal stimulus rules prevent state from slashing funds for colleges, public schools. The opening paragraphs: [...] Just the other day, I saw this sign on each of the entrance doors of Pray-Harrold Hall. The rather direct warning seemed to have the intended impact: all the smokers were dutifully away from the building. Of course, it’s easier to obey a “no smoking near the building” warning when it is sunny [...] Once again, that pesky day job has taken me away from various blogging activities lately. Anyway, this came to me via a press release from the Franco Public Relations Group, which (I think?) represents athletics at EMU. As the sentence summary of the release puts it, “Eastern Michigan University is the first NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision athletic department to be led by six African American men and women.” The whole press release is below the “Read More” part. I didn’t have a chance to write a post over the weekend, but President Susan Martin sent around the email I include below about the prospect of fairly severe budget cuts for 2010. Martin’s email was mostly a cheer-leading effort to buck up the troops, including a reference to her one-room schooling with a school teacher who graduated from what was EMU, the Michigan Normal School. I appreciate Martin’s efforts, and I also appreciate what appears to be a comparatively open process. Budgets were never this openly discussed prior to John Fallon’s presidency, who tried to open things up but bungled that process a bit. But it’s awfully hard to really know what the cuts are going to be. Martin suggests up to $12 million, but that assumes that EMU really won’t raise tuition, which seems ridiculous to me. I was at a meeting last week about Pray-Harrold that included actual suits from Welch Hall (more about that tomorrow or so) in which the deficit was described as being more like $3 million. And besides, the governor’s budget still has to be approved by the state and we aren’t quite sure what the impact of the federal stimulus is going to be. So I predict a budget cut between $12 million and $0. It’d be nice if this were to settle into place though…. |
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