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‘HEAR MY STORY’
Students heard the perspectives of immigrants at the presentation of ‘Hear my Story,’ a documentary created by Students for Peace and Justice.
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Faculty Senate discusses Unit B involvement By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News The Faculty Senate met on Tuesday to discuss Unit B faculty members serving on the senate and the possible combination of the Academic Program Elimination Reorganization Committee and the Sanction Termination Hearing Committee. In the senate’s Sept. 4, 2018 meeting, they first discussed Unit B faculty’s role on the senate. Annually contracted faculty, a part of the overall Unit B faculty, make up from one-fourth to one-third of almost every department on campus, with some departments employing more or less ACFs. Although these Unit B faculty members are currently allowed to serve in any position on the senate, there has been historically no involvement from Unit Bs for many reasons. One reason discussed at that Sept. 4 meeting is the lack of incentive Unit B faculty receive compared to Unit A faculty, who are required to serve on campus. Despite this lack of contractual obligation, Todd Bruns, Faculty Senate chair and scholarly communication librarian and institutional repository director, said that in his visits to various departments around campus, when asked, Unit B faculty said they have interest in being a
part of the senate. In this spirit, Bruns suggested making one of the current senate positions a dedicated Unit B position in an effort to better invite those members to serve. Education professor Dawn VanGunten said she is unsure of the point of a dedicated position specifically for Unit B faculty. “I don’t understand; if (Unit B) are eligible to run for all of the positions, why does there need to be a dedicated spot?” VanGunten said. “The invitation is for us to include them in this process, to recruit them, not to dedicate a seat to them.” Bruns said having that dedicated seat would be a stronger invitation. “There’s something about that there is a Unit B seat that seems to really resonate with them. (VanGunten is) right, (Unit B) could have run any time, and they haven’t, they never have, and I point that out when I talk to the departments,” Bruns said. “But what I’m getting back is, they feel like a Unit B seat is an invitation to have a Unit B voice, they feel like there’s something about (a dedicated seat) that seems to formalize that.” Nursing professor Sue Gosse said the senate is getting to a bigger problem with these discussions.
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Todd Bruns is the Faculty Senate chair and the scholarly communication librarian and institutional director. The Faculty Senate met Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth Library.
Eastern’s year in review President Glassman to give State of University address By Analicia Haynes Editor-in-Chief | @Haynes1943 Eastern President David Glassman will give his State of the University Address from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Glassman said in an email sent to the campus community that he will outline this year’s budget, goals and opportunities as well as talk about the “successes” Eastern has had. Year in Review Eastern has seen several changes this year compared to last, including receiving state appropriations, the deployment of a new college reorganization plan that was introduced in April 2018, enrollment increases, a new merit scholarship model and a grant opportunity for future students that is funded by the state. After Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a $38.5 billion budget into law in June 2018 for Fiscal Year 2018-2019, Eastern saw a 2 percent increase in state appropriations. This came after a two-year-long budget impasse that forced Eastern to dig into its reserves, front the money for the Monetary Award Program grants, lay off about 200 employees and establish the vitalization project, which resulted in the new college reorganization plan that was introduced by Eastern Provost Jay Gatrell last April. The Board of Trustees approved the new plan at a June 22 meeting. This plan created a new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that combined the College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Sciences
and the College of Health and Human Services. This year, Eastern has seen an increase in enrollment according to the tenth day numbers. Overall enrollment increased by 7 percent, and freshmen enrollment increased by nearly 25 percent. In an article from Sept. 4 in The Daily Eastern News titled, “Freshmen numbers up 24.5 percent from last year, total headcount up 7 percent,” Paul McCann, the interim vice president of business affairs, said with the increase in enrollment he has to take another look at the proposed budget. In the article, he said it was nowhere near the initial 9 percent decrease he originally predicted at a June 22 Board of Trustees meeting. Ultimately, he said the increase is something to be excited about because of the large turnaround in enrollment, according to the article. Along with an increase in enrollment, Eastern revamped its merit scholarship model and revealed the EIU Promise Program, which is funded by the state’s AIM HIGH grant program. The new scholarship model has a base ACT score of 20 and looks more at a student’s GPA rather than ACT score in order to determine what award the student will receive. The EIU Promise Program is expected to reduce or offset the full cost of tuition and mandatory fees (except for room and board and course-specific fees) for qualified incoming Illinois students. This was introduced as a way to curb out-migration and encourage student retention. According to a Sept. 16 article in The Daily Eastern News titled “AIM HIGH Grant funding will make Eastern accessible to bigger pool of future students,” Josh Norman, the associate vice president of enrollment management, said this means Eastern will receive just shy of $1 million from the grant. Starting with its Fall 2019 incoming class, Eastern will use three funding mechanisms supported by the grant funding.
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Charleston Mayor Brandon Combs talks during the Charleston City Council meeting Tuesday night at City Hall.
City Council approves contract for resurfacing Madison Avenue By Corryn Brock Staff Reporter | @corryn_brock The Charleston City Council approved accepting a bid award for the Madison Avenue Resurfacing project along with 11 other actions items during the Oct. 2 meeting. The contract for the Madison Avenue Resurfacing project has been awarded to Neco Asphalt Company, the contract price being $99,986.80. Work will be done on 0.2 miles of Madison Avenue, spanning from 4th Street to 7th Street and include the milling of two and a half inch-
es of asphalt, the resurfacing of two and a half inches of asphalt, partial depth patching, detector loops and re-striping of the road. A raffle license was also approved for Court Appointed Special Advocates of East Central Illinois. Funds raised from the raffle will be used to assist with the training of CASA volunteers for abused and neglected children. The raffle sales began Sept. 27 and ended on Sept. 29. The winner of the raffle was determined on Sept. 29 at the Brickhouse Bar & Grill in Charleston.
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