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

sitedad — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:46:08 +0000

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

sitedad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:06:37 +0000

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

sitedad — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:17:18 +0000

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

sitedad — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:53:56 +0000

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

sitedad — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:05:04 +0000

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!?

sitedad — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:56:25 +0000

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

sitedad — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:00:13 +0000

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!

sitedad — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:34:09 +0000

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”

sitedad — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:23:00 +0000

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…

sitedad — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:05:00 +0000

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 [...]