WE ARE SERIOUS.

Egypt may well be Obama's 9/11
His ultimate test of leadership.

I got some views of transparency and as usual, the going is more than the getting.

Congrats to those appointed - we need you.

One thing we do know is how he boasts to his wife, family and friends how important he is...going to meetings with the queen and king. at least he is recorded as doing something w3ith his time (see Pharoah about increasing work so as not to leave time for diversions and time to think[always dangerous])

Reminds me of some hospital officials I know...telling me who they met with, who they hang out with-the implication of importance hanging in the air; you are worth less since you don't hang with the same crowd, etc.

Of course, look what happens to poor Haman in the end. is this what boastfulness gets you?
sic transit gloria mundi.

at least haman lives on in our imaginations.

Dear CWRU Faculty Member:

As part of its work in the 2009-10 academic year, the CWRU Faculty Senate passed a resolution which significantly raises the importance of academic advising and mentoring on our campus. This resolution amends the Faculty Handbook to include language that describes advising and mentoring as a form of teaching, and thus the quality of a faculty member’s advising may now be more heavily weighted in promotion, tenure and salary decisions. We wholeheartedly support the changes that will stem from this Faculty Senate resolution.

Effective and attentive advising and mentoring of all students – undergraduates, graduate and professional students, as well as postdoctoral scholars/fellows – now has increased institutional priority. Academic advising is an integral element of our institution’s commitment to the success of our students and their persistence to graduation. We have already begun to make considerable investments toward building a more effective advising and mentoring systems that nurtures the relationships between students and the faculty. Over the past year, Don Feke, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, has led a faculty and administrative initiative to assess our advising practices and make recommendations for improvements. The Faculty Senate requested funds that will underwrite five new initiatives in undergraduate advising this fall. Also, over the past several years, the Graduate Student Senate has published Handbooks for Mentor and Mentees that reflect their appraisal of the best practices for graduate students and mentors. To reinforce their recommendations and to recognize excellence in mentoring, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Chuck Rozek, and UCITE Director Mano Singham, working with a committee of former Diekoff mentoring award winners and graduate students, have developed a Mentoring Fellows program to engage faculty more fully in this important mission.

Over the next few months, you will hear more about our investments in advising and from your deans and department chairs about advising. As part of the Faculty Senate resolution, each constituent faculty has been charged to submit, by the end of the calendar year, a plan aimed at ensuring the quality of academic advising and mentoring. We look forward to your participation in the development of these plans.

Sincerely,

W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III, Provost and Executive Vice President
Lynn T. Singer, Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

I CAN FEEL THE BOILING WATER BEING POURED ON THE HEAD OF MY FELLOW MAN, AND FELLOW GULF NO MATTER HOW FAR HOW REMOTE

IT ONLY TOOK A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND THE REST IS HISTORY

RIP
GULF OF MEXICO
2 ZILLION BC - 2010

Granted that lots of not so nice stuff happened
George Bush
9/11 became a noun
Iraq war
Afghan war
Stock meltdown (x2)

Lots of other stuff happened:
Barack Obama
2 of my children graduated college and a third enrolled at The Ohio State University
Got promoted (x2)
Endowed chair
Joined a new synagogue
Guantanamo (should be on other list)

here's the deal.....why would we want to forget the decade? Do we want to forget the lessons learned?

it never looks so good the next day.

in this case, I just made it up to have something to say, and something you can read