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I thought I’d go ahead and group three sports oriented bits ‘o news together in one post: EMU Men’s Basketball goes down, but it was close and after double-overtime, 97-98 to Akron. So Ramsey will coach another year, but let’s see if we can’t kick it up a notch next year, huh? More sad news this morning, I’m afraid: Donna Selman, a regular EMUTalk.org reader, sent me an email and a link to this article at Freep.com, “Cop died doing what he loved, dad says,” which is an article about Jackson City Police Officer James Bonneau, who was killed while on duty. Dr. Selman asked [...] 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 [...] Once again, the so-called “March Madness” is upon us and it’s time for basketball fans and non-fans alike to put together their picks for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (aka, “the final four.”) Last year, we had a small but enthusiastic group participate in the picks here at EMUTalk.org, and the victory went to Honolulu [...] According to an article on the Inside Higher Ed site, “Salaries Fell for 32.6% of Faculty.” Here are the opening paragraphs: The median salary change for faculty members in 2009-10 was 0 percent — and for many professors, no change would have been better than the decreases they experienced. The figures on faculty salaries come from the [...] 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 [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader emailed me today about an article in the New York Times, “Digital Billboards, Diversions Drivers Can’t Escape,” which, as the headline suggests, is about these new digital billboards and if they are (or aren’t) dangerous. But by coincidence (I presume), this article features prominently an EMU “Explore Eastern” ad on an [...] 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 [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me information about an article in the current Inside HigherEd about a forthcoming movie called Tenure, which will apparently star Luke Wilson. Here’s a quote describing the project: Blowtorch Entertainment will next month begin filming on “Tenure,” which is about a college professor coming up for tenure (Luke Wilson) and facing [...] Also on annarbor.com, “Naked man steals children’s books from Ypsilanti District Library, police say.” The opening sentences: Ypsilanti police say a library patron took off his clothes and exposed himself to an employee today before fleeing with children’s books in hand. The man hasn’t been located by police. Sure, harass a couple college kids about making a perfectly [...] |
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