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“Even in a Recovery, Some Jobs Won’t Return”

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 [...]

No really– there’s a $5.8 million surplus

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 [...]

Three of the many reasons why money confuses me

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.”

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President Martin to host budget forums

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 [...]

You think we’ve got at tough at EMU? At least we’re not Harvard

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 [...]

Obama administration coming to campus to talk about the collapsing auto industry– but not to the public!?

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 [...]

Welcome to my world

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 [...]

Freeze my tuition– please!

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 [...]

“For-Profit Colleges: Scooping Up the Stimulus”

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 [...]

Somehow, I don’t think this threat/strategy would work at EMU…

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 [...]