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Here’s a story with some particular local interests: from Inside Higher Ed, “Making Adjuncts Temps — Literally.” The opening paragraphs: Last year, a small community college in Michigan considered a plan to stop employing adjuncts and to have a temporary services agency instead do the formal hiring. The idea was to save the college [...] I heard this story this afternoon on Michigan Public Radio: “Community College Enrollment Increases.” And basically, that’s what the story is about. Among other things, the story talks about how this is having a big impact on available classroom and parking spaces at Henry Ford CC and Washtenaw CC. Is this a good trend [...] From the Washtenaw Voice comes this news, “WCC offers shuttle from Eastern to ease parking.” Here are the opening paragraphs: In order to free up parking spots on campus for the Winter 2010 semester, Washtenaw Community College will rent the parking lot located across the street from Rynearson Stadium at Eastern Michigan University, [...] That is, Washtenaw Community College is not going to buy the Washtenaw Country Club, as reported on the YpsiNews.com. The opening paragraphs of that story: In a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees of the Washtenaw Community College, the board has decided to reject the offer to purchase the Washtenaw Country Club. [...] This is a little off-topic, but it came up in my Eastern Michigan University Google feed today: “Unfit for students: College prohibiting students from parking in Fitness Center lot,” from the Washtenaw Voice (which I presume is the student paper at Washtenaw Community College). A snippet to explain what this is all about: [...] While linking to the article about the rape at the Kappa Omega Alpha house, I came across a couple of other articles that connect to some previous posts/news-bits here at EMUTalk.org. First, there is the front page story in today’s AANews, “Officials say proposed acquisition of country club by Washtenaw Community College tempting, but [...] Or, just to be a bit more clear: Washtenaw Community College might take over the Washtenaw Country Club, according to this article in the AANews. Here’s a quote: “We’re not looking for a golf course, we’re not shopping for one and we’re not going to buy one,” [Washtenaw Community College President Larry] Whitworth [...] |
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