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This came to me via a mailing list I’m on: from the CHE blog, “Seton Hill to Offer iPads to Full-Time Students.” Here are the opening paragraphs: Seton Hill University, a liberal-arts institution in Pennsylvania with more than 2,100 students, announced a program on Tuesday that offers an iPad to every full-time student. Distribution [...] I came across this post via my EMU feed: “EMU Lecturers Halt ‘Visits’ as President Martin Shows Sincerity” is a post on Ken Wachsberger’s Blog, and it’s about some of the tension in the on-going discussions of part-time faculty unionizing. Here’s the opening paragraphs: Members of Eastern Michigan University’s Adjunct Lecturers’ Organizing Committee (ALOC) [...] Remember that story last year, “University to student: Endorse being ‘gay’ or leave?” Well, via the phi beta cons blog (which is sponsored by the conservative National Review and is a blog that describes itself as “the right take on higher ed”) comes this: “No Qualified Immunity for Professors at Eastern Michigan University?” As [...] As the EMU press release notes, “Governor Granholm appoints Michael Hawks and Erane Washington-Kendrick to Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents.” Here are the opening paragraphs: Governor Jennifer Granholm has appointed Michael Hawks and Erane Washington-Kendrick to the Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents. Their terms begin January 1, 2011. Hawks, a graduate of [...] One of my Facebook “friends” (actually, this person really is a friend) posted this tidbit today: apparently there is a Quidditch match between EMU and Miami of Ohio today at 2 pm someplace on campus (near the soccer fields? I’m not sure). By the way, the EMU team is known as the “Flying Squirrels.” [...] One of the things that has come as a result of the whole health care debate is that the federal government is now taking over all student loans. I’m listening to some discussion on talk radio right now, and there was a good story on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning, “Can Education Dept. Handle [...] Folks, I hope you find time to take a look at this week’s FOCUS. It features a story on the “Reacting To The Past” teaching method, as practiced by Professor Mark Higbee here at Eastern. You will see why this story was great fun to report and how students become immersed in this method [...] I came across this via Facebook this morning: The Ypsi Project is an effort by Erica Hampton to take photos (portraits and otherwise) of various Ypsilanti things. But she’s trying to raise $2400 to make it all happen. Check out the kickstarter page here (it tells you how you can participate and donate, along [...] This came my way today, a Washington Post article with the headline “College students rally for student loan legislation on hill.” Here are the opening paragraphs: College students swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for more financial aid as private lenders made a last push to preserve their endangered role in making federal [...] Via my Google feed about EMU comes this: “Michael Harris selected as new chancellor of IU Kokomo.” Go figure. |
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