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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 [...] 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 [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader (perhaps one interested in becoming a regular contributor?) sent me a link to this Jack Lessonberry commentary, “Praise for the Governor.” Lessonberry is commenting on Granholm’s reply to Mike Bishop’s plan for cutting state employee pay, something we discussed here a couple weeks ago. I thought this quote was pretty good: The [...] A loyal EMUTalk.org reader (perhaps this person would be interested in becoming a regular contributor to EMUTalk.org?) sent me this: from WWJ Newsradio, “Senate Leader: Cut All Public Workers’ Pay, Benefits.” The bullet point that caught my eye/wallet: Reduce pay for all school, university, community college, state and local government workers by 5 percent, and freeze [...] There’s an intriguingly one-sided article on the front page of the Eastern Echo that has made it to its web site, “The problem of dropping athletics to Division II.” It begins: In a letter written to The Echo in October from Zachary Jones — an adjunct instructor and research assistant at EMU — he suggested what [...] This from today’s Inside Higher Ed, “Textbooks for Rent… Everywhere.” Basically, it’s about the (compared to the sales) small business of renting textbooks and how it’s on the rise. Two kind of interesting things to me: According to the article and I guess the CEO of BookRenter.com, “The textbook industry does about a $7-9 billion in [...] In the ongoing saga of the presence or absence of a budget surplus (see this and this), EMU-AAUP’s Howard Bunsis offers this analysis of the financial condition at EMU in response to this “Q&A” (sorta) with Chief Financial Officer John Lumm. I know, that’s a lot of reading to assign right before finals week, [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader pointed out this story to me, my initial reaction to which was whaa??? As reported on the public radio show “Marketplace,” “Pittsburgh may tax college tuition.” Why, you may ask? Mayor Ravenstahl calls it the “fair-share tax” saying the students are using millions of dollars in city services every time [...] I didn’t realize that Governor Jennifer Granholm was going to be on campus so early today, 9 am. I couldn’t have made it if I had remembered though. Did anyone go? How was it? I also discovered this morning this fine press release on the EMU web site, “An open letter to EMU [...] From Inside Higher Ed this morning, ” Northeastern Ends Football.” In many ways, Northeastern University is very different from EMU; but, as this quote suggests, they share a lot in common: Joseph Aoun, president of the university, said in his statement that the decision involved setting priorities. “Northeastern has always been guided by the principle [...] |
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