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I’m sure we’ll see other obituaries and memorials from other sources, but this is the first one I’ve come across: from Crain’s Business Detroit comes “Vernon Polite, dean of Eastern Michigan University’s College of Education, dies at 61.” Oh, and then there is also this article from annarbor.com: “Eastern Michigan University College of Education Dean Vernon [...] Not that I want to give the Board of Regents any ideas, but remember that whole bit about how tenured faculty can’t get fired unless the institution is about to go broke? Well, Inside Higher Ed’s “Layoffs Without ‘Financial Exigency’” suggests not so much. Here’s a long opening quote from the article: One of the ultimate [...] I was not planning on posting much or at all over the break here, but when I came across this article via Geoff Larcom’s Facebook profile, well, how could I not pass it along here? “Shrinking Newsrooms Put Colleges in the Content Business” from this week’s CHE is about what’s happening with fading media coverage [...] This notice just sent around from Edward Mullens: From the Physical Plant: Construction on the new science complex during winter break (March 1-5) will impact cooling units in Halle Library. Temperatures inside the library may become warmer than normal, possibly as high as 85 degrees. People using the building may want to dress in layers. Halle Library [...] … I’m a little surprised. I mean, I tend to think that the schools around here get closed a little too easily– I have accused Southeast Michiganders of being “weather babies” in the past. But EMU was closed on February 10, I believe with less snow on the ground (though that’s just a guess based [...] This was forwarded to a mailing list I’m on in my field, but I thought it was really quite relevant here: “Public Agenda survey finds deep skepticism” is from the Washington Post blog “College Inc., ” which is an interesting blog about the business of higher education. The subtitle of the piece is “An annual [...] I came across this just now– Susan Martin was interviewed on WEMU this morning (this opens to the mp3 file). She talked about a bunch of different things, though the thing that I was most struck by was the discussion about the budget for EMU (she basically said that if we don’t get cut, as the [...] A couple interesting articles/headlines from the Eastern Echo: “Martin gets feedback from forum,” which is a summary of a public forum EMU President Susan Martin held on Monday. I thought about going, but it sounds like it was mostly students there– which is good, but they might have had different interests than me. FullOfQuestions comment on the “An Open Letter Regarding the EMU Chief Government Relations Search” reminded me of an email that Geoffrey “Geoff” Larcom sent around the other day. Remember those heady days of the Chief Government Relations position, the one that was going to replace Freeman Hendrix in that job? Well, that’s turned into a [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me an email today that raises some interesting questions about the recent news about a student with a documented case of tuberculosis. The official EMU announcement, with the easily deleted subject line “Message from University Health Services,” does not mention that the student worked for EMU food service (The Eastern [...] |
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