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Craig Willis was an example of “The Wolf”?

Kind of an interesting/amusing article in Inside Higher Ed today called “Send in the Wolf.” “The Wolf,” as fans of the movie Pulp Fiction will recall, was the Harvey Keitel character sent in toward the end of the movie to sole a major “problem.” But in this case, the problem solvers are presidents [...]

Anybody know anything about the movie making at Concordia?

Just thought I’d ask. I was driving by Concordia University this morning, and I noticed there was quite the set-up for some sort of movie-making going on about town: many many trucks, looked like some lighting crews wandering about, a guy directing traffic in and out of the school, and five or six [...]

EMU computer stuff broken….

From Ron Woody this morning:

Due to a major disk failure, the it.emich.edu website and several supported web applications are currently down. Division of Information Technology (DoIT) staff are working on the issue now and estimate that affected systems will be restored around 2:00 p.m. today.

Affected systems include (not exhaustive):
- it.emich.edu website
- online campus directory
- [...]

President Martin to host budget forums

This just in from Edward Mullens/the EMU PR folks:

EMU President Susan Martin and Interim Chief Financial Officer John Lumm will host two open campus forums to discuss the 2009-2010 operating and capital budget recently adopted by the Board of Regents. Both forums will be in room 310B of the Student Center. The first forum will [...]

You think we’ve got at tough at EMU? At least we’re not Harvard

I’ve only had the chance to read the part 1 of this 6 screen/page article, but “Hard Times at Harvard” in the August Vanity Fair magazine is pretty interesting reading. Here’s the teaser paragraph at the top:

Only a year ago, Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia. Now that endowment has [...]

Farewell, Ann Arbor News

We won’t have the AAN to kick around here anymore: The Ann Arbor News is publishing its last issue today. Follow that link and you’ll get a boatload of articles about all that was at the News.

I guess I’ll mention four things for now:

I might be the kind of AAN reader who is an [...]

“Whip It” Trailer is out

I just noticed this on the Apple page, actually:

The trailer for the Texas-set/Ypsi (and area)-filmed Drew Barrymore/Ellen Page movie Whip It is out and apparently coming to theaters in early October.

“Negotiating under the radar”

I don’t normally read the AAUP emails I receive once in a while, but I clicked on this one this morning and I thought it was an interesting read: “Negotiating Under the Radar: Preserving contract language is far more important than fighting for insignificant pay increases.” Here’s the opening paragraph:

This January, the [...]

Check out “Project One” art exhibit

A loyal EMUTalk.org reader and art professor Ryan Molloy sent me the following information about the “Project One” exhibit that begins with a reception on July 16 from noon to 2 pm. Alas, I continue to be out of town at an undisclosed location; this might be a nice get-away from the more (in)famous [...]

EMU names Walter Kraft as VP of Communications

Eastern Michigan University names Kraft vice president for communications

Via email from Pam Young:

YPSILANTI – Eastern Michigan University has named Walter Kraft as its new vice president for communications, pending approval by the Board of Regents. The appointment is effective August 10, 2009.

More after the break. To be honest, I don’t know enough about [...]