I came a across an interesting query from a stripper grad student financing her education, but worrying about the fallout, in Cary Tennis’ Salon column.

I am a graduate student in a college town. When I was in college here, I worked as a full-nude dancer in a neighboring town (also a college town) in order to support myself and to work a few hours at a more compassionate, poorly paid job in the meantime. On a couple of occasions, people I knew showed up at the strip club, including a former instructor, and I laughed it off, telling them that anyone who knows me had better buy a lot of lap dances from me to make up for my embarrassment.

I need to study for my Ph.D. exams this summer and I won’t get any funding. …

I haven’t been to a strip club for a while, but it always seemed that the strippers I’ve run across in my days have always been working hard to finance their higher education.

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Will Purdue University Calumet and Indiana University Northwest soon be one entity? Will we see the creation of an IUPUNWI in the near future?

The Northwest Indiana Times reports the Indiana Commission for Higher Education is looking at merging the two state universities’ branches located in the Calumet South Shore Region. A PDF of the ICHE’s report Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions For Higher Education In Indiana is available.

The study, “Reaching Higher Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana,” is “not an official recommendation or proposal of the commission,” (Jeffrey) Spalding (senior associate commissioner) said.

“It was presented as an example of how to illustrate the concept and how to get more for your dollar through more coordination. Thinking outside the box how you can make the system better.”

I’m curious to see if Purdue Prof. Maurice Eisenstein posts any thoughts on the proposal to merge IUN and PUC on his Northwest Indiana Comical Politics blog.

IUN and PUC work well from what I’ve seen at the Merrillville Academic Learning Center, so merging the two universities may be a way of strengthening both.

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