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I thought this was pretty interesting: There was a discussion in my department recently about a policy restricting the use of laptop computers; Lord only knows what some of my colleagues would think of adding Twitter to a class discussion. But I have to say I found this pretty persuasive, and it rings [...] Kind of an interesting little piece in the CHE: “Sartorial Study Suggests Professors Should Wear What They Want.” A quote from the beginning of the piece: How academics dress for a lecture doesn’t affect how students perceive them — at least in the long run. That was the conclusion of a study at [...] Ugh, what a snarky and badly-written article on the Detroit Freep web site, “Why don’t colleges cut costs? While families tighten belts, universities’ budgets grow.” I’m not going to pretend to understand all of the reasons why university expenses have been increasing over the last 20-odd years, but I will say this: Part of [...] From the most recent CHE: “Lawyers’ Advice to Colleges About Internet Gossip: Educate, Don’t Regulate.” With the proliferation of Internet sites for personal expression, colleges have become entangled in numerous high-profile scandals in recent years after students or faculty members have posted mean-spirited rumors or salacious photos online. But the way to curb [...] (With three slight updates on June 25– see below): Susan Moeller sent around an email yesterday about a rather strange development coming out of the Board of Regents from their recent meeting; she wrote:
I thought Moeller was a little vague about it all in her email. So I went to look at the documents from the Board of Regents meeting, and while I didn’t spend a lot of time with it, I couldn’t find anything about folks being denied tenure. I did find some kind of weird documents though. Check the link above and you’ll see the “Faculty Tenure Appointments (Sections A and B)” (a PDF). Page 1 is boiler-plate language on tenuring 30 faculty and is dated (handwritten) June 10, and page 2 is the list of 30 faculty. Page 3 is the same boiler-plate language for 2 faculty, and page four lists those two faculty. Perhaps those are the ones who didn’t get tenure and promotion? This is all very strange. I was on campus today, and I heard some rumors about all this that, if true, strike me as extremely problematic to say the least. So, what do folks know? Any more rumors or theories? Feel free to post in the comments or to drop me an email. I just got an email from “Office of the President,” and what OotP (aka Susan Martin) is discussing is various budgeting issues. Not a lot of details about how we’re going to make our way through this year, and almost nothing about next year, but there was this little nugget: Despite the uncertain [...] Sitedad has returned from a previously undisclosed trip to California– the University of California at Davis to be precise so that I could attend the annual Computers and Writing Conference. A good time was had for one and all. Davis itself is a lovely college town just outside of Sacramento; it reminded me a [...] There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed the other day about the AAUP with an EMU connection: “AAUP Says It’s Rebounding, Though Challenges Remain” includes mention of EMU’s own Howard Bunsis, who is now the National Treasurer. Here’s a quote featuring him: Howard J. Bunsis, the group’s secretary-treasurer and a [...] Alert EMUTalk.org reader/Ypsi Food Co-Op guy/Solar power enthusiast Dave Stenski sent me the following the other day: I wanted to make your blog aware of a local solar power project that is getting a lot of help from EMU professor William Sverdlik and student Nik Estep . You can see the webpage at SolarYpsi.com [...] Kind of an interesting little news item about former EMU interim president Craig Willis: “Interim president named for Kansas Wesleyan.” I guess he’s kind of an interim president specialist now, huh? |
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