This is kind of a tangent, but EMU is mentioned in this Wall Street Journal article, “Even in Recovery, Some Jobs Won’t Return.” The EMU connection is a sidebar/blurb about a student, 53 year old Jeff Walker of Brighton, “a former auto industry executive, doesn’t mind being among the oldest students at Eastern Michigan [...]
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I received an email the other day from EMU-AAUP President Susan Moeller in response to this post from late October, “Three of the many reasons why money confuses me.” Susan wrote: I have heard from some faculty that on EMUTalk some people are saying my information is incorrect on the 5.8 million dollar [...] Earlier this week, EMU-AAUP President Susan Moeller sent around an email that said, basically, that EMU is currently running a $5.8 million surplus. “Given that our academic departments are suffering from a terrible lack of funding lets hope that the EMU administration uses some of this surplus,” Moeller writes, “to remedy the underfunding SOON.” [...] This just in from Edward Mullens/the EMU PR folks: EMU President Susan Martin and Interim Chief Financial Officer John Lumm will host two open campus forums to discuss the 2009-2010 operating and capital budget recently adopted by the Board of Regents. Both forums will be in room 310B of the Student Center. The [...] I’ve only had the chance to read the part 1 of this 6 screen/page article, but “Hard Times at Harvard” in the August Vanity Fair magazine is pretty interesting reading. Here’s the teaser paragraph at the top: Only a year ago, Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia. Now that [...] From the Freep.com come news of an event that might be kind of interesting to folks in the area/on campus tomorrow: “Two from Obama’s team to be in southeast Michigan on Tuesday.” Here’s the whole article: President Barack Obama’s labor secretary and director of recovery for auto communities will head to Romulus and [...] Well, no, not completely; I am not feeling that demoralized. Still, I think the opening paragraphs of this recent Inside Higher Ed article, “Next Budget Victim? Joy” kind of rings true: Step away from that copy machine, and don’t even think about serving lunch at that next faculty meeting. Oh, and that class [...] The Ann Arbor News has an article on the soon to be defunct paper front page, “Students: Please freeze tuition,” while is online version as the headline “The cry at U-M, other campuses: No tuition hikes.” Here’s the relevant part about this particular “other campus:” Anxiety isn’t limited to students at U-M. “I’ve [...] Via Business Week (which I don’t normally read), “For-Profit Colleges: Scooping Up the Stimulus.” Here’s a quote from the opening: President Barack Obama’s stimulus package directs billions in new funding to higher education. Poised to cash in on the largesse are a group of large for-profit universities that specialize in scooping up student [...] A loyal EMUTalk.org reader sent me news of an interesting tactic in progress at the University of Texas. UT-Austin is an institution that is in many ways similar to the University of Michigan: academically excellent, flagship school, major sports, and highly competitive in terms of admissions. But in Texas, if you are in the [...] |
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