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		<title>Budget cut woes in Pennsylvania and Kentucky</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2012/02/budget-cut-woes-in-pennsylvania-and-kentucky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the &#8220;it could be worse&#8221; department, Inside Higher Ed links to two budget cutting stories of note.  First, from philly.com comes &#8220;Under Pa. plan, state-system colleges could lose a third of their funding &#8211; after 2011&#8242;s 20 percent cut.&#8221;  &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2012/02/budget-cut-woes-in-pennsylvania-and-kentucky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Michigan&#8217;s public universities see 24% increase in &#8216;unrestricted&#8217; net assets&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2012/01/michigans-public-universities-see-24-increase-in-unrestricted-net-assets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the freep.com comes &#8220;Michigan&#8217;s public universities see 24% increase in &#8216;unrestricted&#8217; net assets.&#8221;  Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but this seems to be a pretty muddled and confusing article to me.  It seems to be saying that public universities in &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2012/01/michigans-public-universities-see-24-increase-in-unrestricted-net-assets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Michigan Democrats developing college grant plan&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2012/01/michigan-democrats-developing-college-grant-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it&#8221; news, I heard on Michigan Radio this morning this story, &#8220;Michigan Democrats developing college grant plan.&#8221;  In the nutshell, the proposal would pay for college tuition at a public Michigan university for students &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2012/01/michigan-democrats-developing-college-grant-plan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;State aid to universities soon could hinge on performance goals&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/11/state-aid-to-universities-soon-could-hinge-on-performance-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard this one this morning on WEMU, but here&#8217;s the Freep article on it:  &#8221;State aid to universities soon could hinge on performance goals.&#8221;  To quote: Michigan is one of 17 states implementing or studying performance funding. The goal &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/11/state-aid-to-universities-soon-could-hinge-on-performance-goals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rick Snyder to announce sweeping DPS reforms Monday&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/06/rick-snyder-to-announce-sweeping-dps-reforms-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Freep comes &#8220;Rick Snyder to announce sweeping DPS reforms Monday.&#8221; Read on for the EMU connection: The plan would restructure the failing school district, which has a $327 million budget deficit, by moving underperforming DPS schools under a &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/06/rick-snyder-to-announce-sweeping-dps-reforms-monday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>But there is some good news once in a while</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/05/but-there-is-some-good-news-once-in-a-while/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it&#8217;s important to point out that the &#8220;good news&#8221; comes in the form of &#8220;things might not be that bad.&#8221;  EMU Faculty Senate President Matt Evett emailed faculty over the weekend to let us know that a) the cut &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/05/but-there-is-some-good-news-once-in-a-while/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>EFMs makes the Colbert Report</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/05/efms-makes-the-colbert-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually don&#8217;t stay up late enough to watch The Colbert Report live, so I just saw this now.  It&#8217;s a commentary on the &#8220;Emergency Financial Managers&#8221; (or F-&#8217;em, as he pronounces it) in Michigan and Benton Harbor.  Worth watching &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/05/efms-makes-the-colbert-report/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry for Snyder&#8211; wondering what that means for a recall</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/05/sorry-for-snyder-wondering-what-that-means-for-a-recall/</link>
		<comments>http://emutalk.org/2011/05/sorry-for-snyder-wondering-what-that-means-for-a-recall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 10:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man about town Mark Maynard has an interesting post at his blog, &#8220;Rene Greff on her support of Rick Snyder for Governor.&#8221; Greff (and her husband) own the Arbor Brewing Company, which includes Ypsilanti&#8217;s popular Corner Brewery, and the Corner &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/05/sorry-for-snyder-wondering-what-that-means-for-a-recall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Michigan Teachers Forced to Rely on Food Stamps&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/04/michigan-teachers-forced-to-rely-on-food-stamps/</link>
		<comments>http://emutalk.org/2011/04/michigan-teachers-forced-to-rely-on-food-stamps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from a colleague and friend of the site:  from Politicususa, &#8220;Michigan Teacher Forced to Rely on Food Stamps.&#8221; Basically, it&#8217;s a story about a full-time adjuncts at Central Michigan University who is being paid so well (not) that he &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/04/michigan-teachers-forced-to-rely-on-food-stamps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great&#8211; Michigan is increasingly like Wisconsin (and the email problem)</title>
		<link>http://emutalk.org/2011/03/great-michigan-is-increasingly-like-wisconsin-and-the-email-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://emutalk.org/2011/03/great-michigan-is-increasingly-like-wisconsin-and-the-email-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Inside Higher Ed: A think tank in Michigan has filed state open records requests seeking e-mail messages to and from labor studies scholars at three universities, related to the skirmishing over public employee unions in Wisconsin, according to &#8230; <a href="http://emutalk.org/2011/03/great-michigan-is-increasingly-like-wisconsin-and-the-email-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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