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“Why Teaching is not Priority No. 1″

sitedad — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:45:08 +0000

I was going to post this yesterday, though I got pretty busy then getting ready for teaching today, going to (at least part of) the CAS meeting, etc., etc., but it seems like a good post for the first day of the school year. From The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Why Teaching is Not [...]

I suspect the IT Labor Day picnic has been disrupted

sitedad — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:59:08 +0000

September 6 Update: The latest sent around by Walter Kraft on this:

As we reported yesterday, an investigation is underway into a breach of security in an EMU server that controls my.emich passwords and Banner Self-Service PIN codes for students and employees. The area that was compromised did not contain social security numbers or [...]

“Shifting the Health Costs Burden”

sitedad — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:47:36 +0000

A loyal EMUTalk.org reader passed along to me a couple of links (one of which is embedded in the quote below) from the New York Times about shifting the costs of health care from the employer to the employee. The editorial “Shifting the Health Costs Burden” states the problem pretty bluntly:

The latest annual [...]

“EMU won’t permit medical marijuana on campus”

sitedad — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:17:14 +0000

This in the EMU Echo (though I found it via annarbor.com): “Eastern prohibits medical marijuana.” Here’s a quote:

According to Greg O’Dell, the police chief at EMU, marijuana is prohibited on campus for any reason, including medicinal uses.

Associate Director of University Housing Brian Fitzgerald said though there were meetings in place discussing the [...]

Last thoughts on not striking/the latest contract

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:30:42 +0000

Slight update #2: Here’s a link to the Annarbor.com wrap-up article, one that I don’t think is quite right, but….

A slight update: I’ve cut and pasted EMU-AAUP President Susan Moeller’s email to faculty below after the “read more” part. Note that the two links in her email take you to PDF files.

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At the EMU-AAUP meeting

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:03:38 +0000

And I know that everyone is pretty happy that it’s a meeting to talk about terms instead of a meeting to talk about striking. A pretty good crowd; here’s hoping the terms are decent enough. Much more after the break.

Moeller introducing, we do indeed have an agreement. Lots of applause, happy and [...]

Wow, we have a deal!

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:20:22 +0000

From Susan Moeller:

We have a tentative agreement. Please come to the meeting to hear the details. The rally and informational has been canceled for this afternoon.

Congratulations to the negotiating team – please come and thank them. They have worked so hard.

Wow, go figure! I’ll still be blogging from the meeting about [...]

Negotiating into the night?

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:07:36 +0000

I don’t know if this is good news or no news, but I noticed this morning that there has been no update from the EMU-AAUP and the update on the EMU web site says:

Monday, August 30

As of 9 p.m., negotiations remain under way. Further details will be provided when available.

By the [...]

One last update for the night

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:27:05 +0000

…. and then I’m going to turn off the computer and/or go to bed: Susan Moeller sent around an interestingly short message tonight:

Unfortunately, today’s negotiations have been distressing. At several points, we thought we were on the road to an agreement, but nothing has materialized. We are meeting again tomorrow morning, and hopefully [...]

EMU Football MAC Media Day Stuff

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:46:56 +0000

Also in non-strike EMU news (well, sort of) is the above video and this link to EMU’s Ron English (and a couple players) talking Media Day stuff with the MAC folks.

I say “non-strike” news, but it is hard for me not to flinch/remember the stuff that the EMU-AAUP has been saying about [...]