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Pay increases all depend on enrollment

sitedad — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:11:43 +0000

I heard this story on WEMU news the other day, titled on their web site “Budget On Track; Enrollment Up at EMU” (this link will open an mp3). Ostensibly, it’s about how the enrollment numbers are up quite a bit, about how the 0/0/0% campaign is working, and how things are looking good in [...]

“Lecturers, students protest with sit-in at Martin’s office”

sitedad — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:31:09 +0000

I totally missed this last week and just found out about it yesterday when EMU-AAUP President sent around an email to faculty about it: As reported by the Echo, “Lecturers, students protest with sit-in at Martin’s office.” Here’s the opening paragraphs:

Yesterday, adjunct lecturers and students joined together once again in an attempt to [...]

Also this morning: Susan Martin on WEMU

sitedad — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:05:06 +0000

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, [...]

An opportunity to watch Susan Martin eat a sandwich

sitedad — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:37:21 +0000

Or, perhaps she’ll go for a salad or a veggie wrap; either way, find out on Monday, February 8. I believe this was a public annoucement:

Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend Conversations with the President on Monday, Feb. 8, from 1 – 2 p.m., in the Student Center dining area. President [...]

University House telescope?

sitedad — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:19:30 +0000

I was clicking through the latest version of EMU FOCUS (some good stuff in there), when I found this curious photo/story that I thought might be of interest since there used to be some astronomy club members around here once upon a time:

To quote the story/caption:

NEW TELESCOPE: Members of Eastern Michigan [...]

McKanders Leaving EMU in February

sitedad — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:56:03 +0000

An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me an email complementing me on posting about the “hiring/nonhiring” for the EMU government position, but then pointing out that I had missed the fact that EMU has posted an ad for University General Counsel. “Does this mean that Ken McKanders is gone or being forced out?”

Well, this [...]

So, seriously– what’s the deal with the government relations position?

sitedad — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:34:21 +0000

Okay, just to recap a bit:

Way back in late October/early November, Jerry Gemignani sent and I posted “An Open Letter Regarding the EMU Chief Government Relations Search,” which raised some serious questions about the process of hiring for this position. Many comments ensued. In mid-November, EMU had a press release I posted about [...]

“An Open Letter Regarding the EMU Chief Government Relations Search”

sitedad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:39 +0000

I received an email today from loyal EMUTalk.org reader Jerry Gemignani, who asked if I would post the open letter below. I don’t know much about the details, but Jerry seems to and I’ll pass this along in the spirit of EMUTalk.org as a space for exchange of ideas about all sorts of things [...]

Craig Willis was an example of “The Wolf”?

sitedad — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:08:11 +0000

Kind of an interesting/amusing article in Inside Higher Ed today called “Send in the Wolf.” “The Wolf,” as fans of the movie Pulp Fiction will recall, was the Harvey Keitel character sent in toward the end of the movie to sole a major “problem.” But in this case, the problem solvers are presidents and [...]

“Voluntary Furlough” program announced

sitedad — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:06:34 +0000

I just got an email from “Office of the President,” and what OotP (aka Susan Martin) is discussing is various budgeting issues. Not a lot of details about how we’re going to make our way through this year, and almost nothing about next year, but there was this little nugget:

Despite the uncertain [...]