… I came across many things I thought about posting about here. I don’t have the time nor the desire to make these all individual posts, but here’s just some of what I thought was pretty interesting EMUTalk-wise during the holiday break (in no particular order):
- Judge Mathis spoke at EMU graduation. Based on the AnnArbor.com story, it sounds like Greg Mathis had quite the risky youth….
- From Inside Higher Ed, “Second Opinion.” This article about auditing the books at the University of Main, sent to me by a loyal EMUTalk.org reader, has an interesting EMU connection, as this paragraph makes clear:
Administrators say we’re broke? That’s not what our accountant tells us. Such is the sentiment at the University of Maine, where a recently completed audit challenges the notion that the university is in dire straits and will have to cut positions. Drawing primarily upon audited financial statements, an Eastern Michigan University accounting professor issued a student- and faculty-commissioned report last week that found the Maine system’s unrestricted net assets grew to $84 million in 2009, up from about $50 million in 2005. The findings contradict administrators’ gloomy public statements about the fiscal situation at the system, according to Howard Bunsis, who wrote the report. The University of Southern Maine campus, which was given its own analysis in Bunsis’s audit, sustained a $2.7 million budget reduction last year, prompting controversial plans to cut German studies, among other measures.
- “Engaging Students with Engaging Tools” from EDCAUSE Quarterly is about using social media to teach– maybe more something I’m interested than EMU as a whole, but I’m trying to spread the word a bit….
- Alas, Mittenfest has come and gone.
- I’ve come across a new news/publishing outlet in the area, The Bohemian.
- Also from Inside Higher Ed and maybe something I’m more interested in than the EMU community is interested in: “Hybrid Education 2.0,” which begins with the provocative sentence “What if you could teach a college course without a classroom or a professor, and lose nothing?”
- Go figure– Ypsilanti has a film office!
Okay, you’re all caught up. Almost.
