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Pray-Harrold in Exile begins….

sitedad — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:09:43 +0000

The beginning of the school year is always hectic, and this year, I think it’s fair to say that the remodeling of Pray-Harrold (not to mention the ongoing work in Mark-Jefferson) makes it extra-crispy chaotic. Thus the Pray-Harrold exile kicks in at full speed.

Believe it or not, I’m planning to do a scholarly [...]

Just testing something.

sitedad — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:17:33 +0000

Testy-test

Extensive story on three budget forums in FOCUS

glarcom — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:05:17 +0000

The latest edition of our weekly, online campus newspaper, FOCUS, contains a story on the three Academic Affairs budget forums that were held in Welch Hall last month. I hope you folks get time to read the piece, and others in this issue. http://www.emich.edu/focus_emu/040610/budgetforum.html

Reacting To The Past, with Prof. Higbee

glarcom — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:18:54 +0000

Folks, I hope you find time to take a look at this week’s FOCUS. It features a story on the “Reacting To The Past” teaching method, as practiced by Professor Mark Higbee here at Eastern. You will see why this story was great fun to report and how students become immersed in this method [...]

I’m guessing there will be no Halle rave anytime soon

sitedad — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:13:35 +0000

Apparently, there was a “rave party” at the library at James Madison University on December 6. Here’s a link to a story about it on the blog OnwardState (which is actually a student run blog about stuff going on at Penn State), and here’s a link to some YouTube video of the event:

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While I was away….

sitedad — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:40:07 +0000

In the last six days, I am certain that I spent at least 25 hours in the car and most of it behind the wheel. A long but good family trip. Anyway, I’m a bit behind, but I came across a couple of things I thought I’d group together in one post to kick [...]

Pray-Harrold No Smoking “pilot” zone

sitedad — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:46:36 +0000

This was new to me today (mainly because I have been working a lot at home lately): as this flyer taped to the window indicates, there’s a “Entrance Pilot” program at Pray-Harrold right now to enforce a no smoking zone entrance.

My pictures are not that great here for giving perspective, but the [...]

Crime at EMU (or, perhaps safer than most)

sitedad — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:50:38 +0000

Long-time EMUTalk.org commentator “Alum” sent me some crime statistic data a while ago, and I am just now procrastinating long enough from the work I should be doing during finals week finding the time to make this available here. It’s interesting stuff.

Here’s a chart that breaks down the data, comparing EMU to other [...]

The year that was 2008 at EMUTalk.org

sitedad — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:42:30 +0000

More or less in this chronological order, here are some of my favorite posts of 2008 (after the “Read More” break). I have to say that I think that my favorite headline for last year was Does the EMU student center smell like poo? But feel free to take a look through these and [...]

“Transformation 101″ (or, if technology is driving down the cost of instruction, then why is tuition still increasing?)

sitedad — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:23:13 +0000

Now that everyone’s turkey/Emu omlettes have settled:

EMUTalk.org regular Public Crabgrass sent me a link to a provocative story very worthy of sharing here: “Transformation 101,” which was in the Washington Monthly and written by Kevin Carey, who is a researcher at a D.C. education think-tank. I’m not entirely sure I agree with the [...]