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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 [...] Here’s the latest quote about Ron English’s foot-in-mouth about single mothers, from “clickondetroit” channel 4, “EMU Coach Defends His Words About Single Moms.” Here’s a quote: Eastern Michigan University’s head football coach Ron English said he wasn’t attacking single moms.Earlier this summer, English said he wants recruits that have fathers in their background [...] 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 [...] Also in non-strike news (sort of) and news I find personally amusing: From the Waterloo Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier comes this, “Expert on financial state of universities to speak at UNI.” That expert is none other than our own Howard Bunsis, and UNI is the University of Northern Iowa in my hometown of Cedar [...] We interrupt the strike negotiation news and other EMUTalk.org events to point you to a great fund raiser for a great cause: 826 (which includes local chapter 826 Michigan) is a non-profit and nation-wide organization that helps kids with creative and other writing skills. They do great work, believe me. So why not take [...] This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education could have been titled “Why Faculty Unions Do Matter,” too. “More Pressure on Faculty Members, From Every Direction” is a “by subscription only” piece, but you can get to it if you go to http://chronicle.com.ezproxy.emich.edu and use your EMU credentials to log in. A couple of Chronicle of Higher Ed blog pieces I thought were interesting and worth sharing here: The first is “Killing the Lecture With Technology, Part 1:” Earlier this month, The Chronicle wrote about New York University’s attempt to reprogram the roles of some professors in large undergraduate classes, using technology to free them up [...] From AnnArbor.com from a few days ago, “University of Michigan students can now gamble on their grades online.” Basically, it’s a program from a web site called Ultrinsic that enables bets on grades. Here’s a paragraph from the annabor.com piece: Ultrinsic CEO Steven Wolf, 27, said for students to earn cash, they have to [...] I’ve come across a couple of interesting articles analyzing the reasons why higher education is so expensive, especially relative to other things that people value. This article in Forbes.com, “Why Does College Cost So much?” is a summary of a forthcoming book by Robert Archibald and David Feldman, and it rings true to me. [...] It’s Sunday morning, and this seems like a nice and happy feature story to share around EMUTalk.org: from Annarbor.com, “Eastern Michigan professor Howard Booth, 67, one of state’s best Senior Olympian pole vaulters.” The opening lines: Howard Booth was curious. He cut down the sapling in his three-acre backyard and shaped it into a [...] |
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