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Come check out the Celebration of Student Writing on Thursday!

sitedad — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:53:43 +0000

A somewhat self-serving plug: tomorrow is the bi-annual (or is it semi-annual? well, twice a year) Celebration of Student Writing in the EMU Student Center, between 4 and 5:30 pm. It’s a sort of writing “fair/festival” for students in English 121, which is the required first year writing class, and it really is a [...]

Has Pray-Harrold funding been nixed?

sitedad — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:17:07 +0000

I heard a rumor today– mind you, just a rumor since I haven’t seen it reported anywhere, and I’ve been kind of busy wrapping up my spring teaching to do much “investigation” on my own– that the governor’s office has pulled the plug on the funding for remodeling Pray-Harrold and put that money instead [...]

Building better EMU/Ypsi connections

sitedad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:02:56 +0000

Here’s an example of the sort of thing that I would like to do more of on EMUTalk.org: link to and discuss posts from other blogs, especially posts from EMU and Southeast Michigan bloggers. See this post from Mark Maynard, “emu president dr. susan martin on town/gown relations.” Incoming President Susan Martin did an [...]

“Ypsilanti boasts trendy, cultural downtown”

sitedad — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:38:24 +0000

Ypsi city council member Bill Nickels wrote a rebuttal to an editorial that ran in the Detroit News a couple weeks ago (and which I talked about/linked to here), “Ypsilanti boasts trendy, cultural downtown.” I don’t know if the adjectives “trendy” and “thriving” are accurate, but I do agree that Ypsi is not nearly [...]

“EMU 1, Gov: Zippo”

sitedad — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:15:21 +0000

Tim Skubick has some interesting observations about the EMU Presidential search on his blog, Skoop’s Blog, “EMU-1 Gov: Zippo.” Here’s a passage:

By going public with her endorsement of Flanagan, the governor put the board in a box. If they voted for him, it would look like the governor had “pressured” the board [...]

Besides setting “a new tone,” what else should Martin do?

sitedad — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:19:20 +0000

Even though I subscribe to and actually read this past weekend the paper version of the Ann Arbor News, I missed this editorial suggesting that incoming EMU President Susan Martin ought to set a new tone– here’s a link to it. On the whole, I agree with the points this editorial makes, but this [...]

EMU President Q&A (and video– and accounting news)

sitedad — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:40:16 +0000

From the AANews, “For Martin, presidency ‘a dream job’ EMU’s new leader emphasizes stability.” Basically, she says all the right things– you know, emphasizing the positive, talking about the stuff she needs to learn, getting out there to meet with students, putting the past behind us, etc. All good, as long as she doesn’t [...]

Martin’s first action as president: giving EMU money

sitedad — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:07:08 +0000

I actually heard about this from someone coming out of the reception today with EMU President Susan Martin, but it’s reported in this mlive/AANews blog entry: “New president of Eastern Michigan University commissions excellence fund with $10,000 donation.” From the article:

Speaking at a press conference shortly after EMU regents formally approved her [...]

A couple of more articles for the Martin presidental time-capsule

sitedad — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:26:32 +0000

I suspect the honeymoon articles for EMU President Susan Martin will continue for a while, as well they should. Pam Young sent around an email about a reception tomorrow (there’s a light lunch, so maybe I’ll stop by and try to sneak a sandwich before I go and meet my students who want to [...]