MU names new Provost, Dr. Daniel Myers from

[warriorchick]

From an email I received from Marquette:

Later today, President Michael R. Lovell will announce that Daniel Myers, vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as Marquette University provost. The press release can be found below.

The decision to appoint Myers was made after an extensive search led by key members of Marquette faculty, staff, students and alumni with input from the entire Marquette community.

The infilitration of Marquette by Domers continues.

[GGGG]

http://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/council/daniel-myers/

Lot's of red-flags here besides the Notre Dame connection.

"Myers previously chaired the Department of Sociology and was director of research and faculty development in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies."

So he's clearly a liberal who hates people like McAdams.


"Myers earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University before completing a master's and doctorate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison."

Probably will wear Badger red to basketball games.

[g0lden3agle]

http://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/council/daniel-myers/

Lot's of red-flags here besides the Notre Dame connection.

"Myers previously chaired the Department of Sociology and was director of research and faculty development in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies."

So he's clearly a liberal who hates people like McAdams.


"Myers earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University before completing a master's and doctorate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison."

Probably will wear Badger red to basketball games.

What MU hat will he wear?

[wadesworld]

What MU hat will he wear?

I forgot all about that, outstanding!

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/council/daniel-myers/



So he's clearly a liberal who hates people like McAdams.

It's academia.....a blind squirrel could have nailed his ideology 8 times out of 10

[4everwarriors]

What MU hat will he wear?

Salt stained, for sure, ai na?

[jsglow]

I'm glad we're limiting our jabs to some good natured teasing.  I've not met Dr. Myers but I do know that the search committee took their work very seriously and his record of accomplishment speaks for itself.  Welcome to the family Dan.

[79Warrior]

Notre Dame

[Eldon]

http://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/council/daniel-myers/

Lot's of red-flags here besides the Notre Dame connection.

"Myers previously chaired the Department of Sociology and was director of research and faculty development in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies."

So he's clearly a liberal who hates people like McAdams.


"Myers earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University before completing a master's and doctorate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison."

Probably will wear Badger red to basketball games.

[Eldon]

It's academia.....a blind squirrel could have nailed his ideology 8 times out of 10

Yea but sociology is especially bad.  In my experience they are the worst kind of charlatans.  They have just enough knowledge about statistics and just enough jargon to make them sound like they know what they're talking about.  They use this cursory knowledge to push their often extreme agenda.

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://www3.nd.edu/~dmyers/

[GGGG]

Yea but sociology is especially bad.  In my experience they are the worst kind of charlatans.  They have just enough knowledge about statistics and just enough jargon to make them sound like they know what they're talking about.  They use this cursory knowledge to push their often extreme agenda.

SEE!!!!

I AM SURE THIS WAS ALL A PLOT BY NOTRE DAME!!!!

[ChicosBailBonds]

If anyone is interested in reading what he has published:




    Myers, Daniel J. and Alexander J. Buoye. (forthcoming). "Campus Racial Disorders and Community Ties, 1967-1969." Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change.

    Oliver, Pamela E. and Daniel J. Myers. (forthcoming). "Diffusion Models of Cycles of Protest as a Theory of Social Movements." Mobilization.

    Oliver, Pamela E. and Daniel J. Myers. (forthcoming). "Formal Models in Studying Collective Action and Social Movements." In Suzanne Staggenborg and Bert Klandermans, (eds.), Methods in Social Movement Research, University of Minnesota Press.

    Myers, Daniel J. (forthcoming). "Social Activism through Computer Networks." In Orville Vernon Burton (ed.) Renaissance in Social Science Computing, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (revised and updated version of Myers 1994).

        Reprint forthcoming in Orville Vernon Burton, Terence Finnegan, and David Herr (eds.) Wayfarer: Charting Advances in Social Science Computing (CD-ROM edition). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

    Myers, Daniel J., Alexander J. Buoye, Janet McDermott, Douglas E. Strickler, and Roger G. Ryman. (2001). "Signals, Symbols, and Vibes: An Exercise in Cross-Cultural Interaction." Teaching Sociology 29(1):95-101.

    Myers, Daniel J. 2000. "The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks." American Journal of Sociology 106(1):178-208.

    Oliver, Pamela E. and Daniel J. Myers. 1999. "How Events Enter the Public Sphere: Conflict, Location and Sponsorship in Local Newspaper Coverage of Public Events." American Journal of Sociology 105(1):38-87.

    Michener, H. Andrew and Daniel J. Myers. 1998. "Probabilistic Coalition Structure Theories: An Empirical Comparison in 4-Person Superadditive Sidepayment Games." Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(6): 830-860.

    Michener, H. Andrew and Daniel J. Myers. 1998. "A Test of Probabilistic Coalition Structure Theories in 3-Person Sidepayment Games." Theory and Decision 45(1):37-82.

    Myers, Daniel J. 1997. "Racial Rioting in the 1960s: An Event History Analysis of Local Conditions." American Sociological Review 62(1):94-112.

    McCrary, Michael D., Kimberly B. Dugan, and Daniel J. Myers. 1997. "Authority Challenges for Graduate Teaching Assistants." Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development 4(2):63-70.

    Michener, H. Andrew and Daniel J. Myers. 1996. "CSPRED: A Program for Computing Payoff Predictions of Coalition Structure Theories in Characteristic Function Games." Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 28(4):631-632.

        Code and user's manual available at: http://www.nd.edu/~soc2/workpap/.

    Myers, Daniel J. and Kimberly B. Dugan. 1996. "Sexism in Graduate School Classrooms: Consequences for Faculty and Students." Gender & Society 10(3):330-350.

    Myers, Daniel J. 1994. "Communication Technology and Social Movements: Contributions of Computer Networks to Activism." Social Science Computer Review 12(2):250-260.

[ChicosBailBonds]

He got a "hot" rating for looks by one female student at rate my professor....which is good.

I enjoyed this article


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127575676


Dan Myers of Notre Dame University talks to Robert Siegel about his claim that he's figured out what theoretically the shortest possible game of Monopoly would be. That is: If everything went just the right way, with just the right sequence of rolls, Chance and Community Chest cards, and so on, what is the quickest way one player could go bankrupt?

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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

Monopoly, the board game, requires many things. And at the top of that list would be time and patience. It seems you can pass Go and collect your $200 for days before someone, anyone, at the table actually manages to win.

So Dan Myers, a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, wondered how long the shortest possible game of Monopoly would take. And after deriving what we shall call Myers' Theorem, he and his son acted out their theoretical shortest possible Monopoly game.

Mr. DAN MYERS (Sociology Professor, University of Notre Dame): Ready? Go. Twelve, electric company. Twelve, a light company. Nine, Community Chest, collect $200. Four, income tax; 11, (unintelligible). Four, Park Place; I'll take it. Two, Boardwalk, I'll take it. Four, Baltic Avenue, turn it out for going around. I'll take five houses. Seven, Chance, go to Boardwalk. I'm bankrupt.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SIEGEL: Twenty-one seconds. Professor Myers, how many moves, actually, would there be in such a short game?

Mr. MYERS: There's actually two turns per player, and it's a total of nine rolls of the dice, actually.

SIEGEL: Because somebody rolls doubles.

Mr. MYERS: Right, and so their turn continues after the doubles.

SIEGEL: Well, take us through the game here. What happens in the beginning?

Mr. MYERS: One player moves around the board very quickly to buy Boardwalk and Park Place and places houses on that, and the other one ends up drawing a Chance card that sends them to Boardwalk. And they don't have enough money to pay the rent with three houses, and the game is over.

SIEGEL: And you and your son were sort of playing at high speed and did it all under half a minute. But in reality, such a game could take just a couple of minutes if people...

Mr. MYERS: That's right.

SIEGEL: If those rolls of the dice actually happen.

Mr. MYERS: That's right and it's very, very unlikely, of course. And people out in the blogosphere have calculated the odds of that game happening now, and it's in the one-in-quadrillion range. But it's a theoretically possible game, yes.

SIEGEL: Has peer review in the blogosphere generally approved of you as having the shortest game, or has somebody come up with a theoretically shorter game so far?

Mr. MYERS: Well, there have been some proposals for some that are shorter, and so we're going to have to check those out, but we're confident we're in the top handful, even if we're not number one.

SIEGEL: How long did it take you to come up with this theory of the shortest Monopoly game?

Mr. MYERS: This is actually a project that started a long time ago, just me and my son trying to figure out how to play shorter and shorter games of Monopoly. But it's been about three weeks now that we decided that we wanted to see what the shortest possible game could be, and we spent a couple of days working through different possibilities to come up with the one that we present on the YouTube video.

SIEGEL: Monopoly, famously, was popular in the Great Depression, when people were going broke. And now, you've come back during the Great Recession of the 21st century, with this theory.

Mr. MYERS: Yeah, well, there have been some comments out on the blogosphere about how it's representative of what's going on in our economy, that people could go bankrupt so quickly. We didn't intend to parallel but certainly, it's been drawn by a number of people out there.

SIEGEL: Well, what will fill the void, now, that's occupied you for the past few weeks?

Mr. MYERS: Well, we've been getting suggestions from those out in the blog world. So the next one is to try to play the shortest possible game of Risk.

SIEGEL: Which you think might be more complicated or...

Mr. MYERS: I think it will because making someone go bankrupt isn't quite as complicated as world domination.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SIEGEL: Well, professor Myers, thanks a lot for talking with us.

Mr. MYERS: Thank you.

SIEGEL: That's Dan Myers, sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has developed, along with his son, the shortest possible game of Monopoly.

[GGGG]

His vitae

http://sociology.nd.edu/assets/136785/cvwebmyers.pdf

Pretty impressive rise up the administrative ranks in a short period of time.

[mu-rara]

How long until we are the Notre Dame of the Upper Midwest?

[jsglow]

His vitae

http://sociology.nd.edu/assets/136785/cvwebmyers.pdf

Pretty impressive rise up the administrative ranks in a short period of time.

Looks like he has the energy to keep up with Mike.  Impressive CV.

[keefe]

I'm glad we're limiting our jabs to some good natured teasing.  I've not met Dr. Myers but I do know that the search committee took their work very seriously and his record of accomplishment speaks for itself. 

"Record of accomplishment?"

He went to that school in Ohio

[Blue Horseshoe]

From his bio page, "Email: dmyers AT nd DOT edu"

LOLZ

[Tugg Speedman]

Great pick!

http://news.marquette.edu/news-releases/notre-dames-daniel-myers-named-marquettes-next-provost/

[ChicosBailBonds]

He is railed on pretty good at Culturewars......that's essentially further proof what side of the ideological spectrum he is on (as if Sociology professor didn't convince the other 99%).   

[ChicosBailBonds]

Great pick!

Why?

[GGGG]

Why?

**A solid academic
**A track record of moving quickly up administrative ranks.
**An understanding of Catholic higher education given his work at Notre Dame.

Really what else can anyone go on?  I don't see anything particularly negative in his background.  Time will tell if this was a good hire.

[ChicosBailBonds]

So by default, then, pretty much anyone we hired that had a "solid" academic record and promotion would be a great pick.

[GGGG]

So by default, then, pretty much anyone we hired that had a "solid" academic record and promotion would be a great pick.

Well like with anything, people are giving him the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.  Really no harm in that.