A HOPEFUL RETURN
LIFE OF A LATINX
Volleyball head coach Julie Allen said 2017 All-OVC Senior Taylor Smith could return to the lineup as soon as this weekend in a game against Austin Peay and Murray State. PAGE 8
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Discussion on shared governance continues By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News The Council on Academic Affairs discussed shared governance and the makeup of the Academic Program Elimination Reorganization Committee at their Thursday meeting. Since Jan. 2018, a shared governance plan has been discussed around campus with varying solutions. The most recent two solutions discussed by the Faculty Senate in Sept. included a change in the senate’s constitutional language or the creation of a Faculty Congress that would act as an umbrella for committees on campus. The discussion of any shared governance issues was tabled until the senate’s Oct. 16 meeting, with committee chairs, including the senate chair and vice chair and the chair of CAA, having met Wednesday to discuss different solutions. New possible ideas of shared governance were discussed at this lunch meeting. Marita Gronnvoll, CAA chair and communication studies professor, said the discussion centered around what part the senate plays in the committees. “(There were) quite a few questions about what role Faculty Senate would play in the curriculum process, if any,” Gronnvoll said. “This discussion is going to have to continue on whether or not the senate should have a role (in curriculum).” One potential idea that was discussed at the meeting was, Gronnvoll said, having the senate review new programs, not for curricular content, but for their continuation of Eastern’s mission and the resources that new program will need. Gronnvoll said that these are things the provost’s office looks at before a new program gets to CAA, but she said she thinks having faculty input on resources and mission could be beneficial. “I wouldn’t say it’s duplicating what the provost does, but it is a different set of eyes rather than just the provost’s office,” she said. Jeff Stowell, senate vice chair and psychology professor, was in attendance of Wednesday’s meeting and also attended CAA to aid in the shared governance developments. He said he sees this plan as a way to show unified faculty approval of a new program when it ends up in the provost’s office. “I don’t want this to be perceived as just a
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Marita Gronnvoll is the Council on Academic Affairs chair and a communication studies professor. The CAA met on Thursday at 2 p.m. in room 4440 of Booth Library.
stopping mechanism, but also a support mechanism,” Stowell said. Gronnvoll and Stowell said this proposal is in a very early draft mode, and that the various committee chairs will continue meeting to work out the details, such as at what stage in the curriculum approval process the senate would look at the new programs. The council also looked at the possibility of taking on the duties of APERC, which was discussed at Tuesday’s senate meeting. Many council members said the plan made sense, but the biggest problem is that, to serve on APERC, a faculty member has to be tenured, while that is not a requirement to serve on CAA. This means that some CAA members would not be able to serve on APERC if the council ended up taking those responsibilities.
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Carole Collins-Ayanlaja, an educational leadership professor, and Rebecca Throneburg, a communication disorders and sciences professor, speak at the Council of Academic Affairs meeting Thursday in Booth Library. The council got updated on potential shared governance plans.
History department welcomes new chair By Katelyn Eddington Contributing Writer | @ DEN_News History professor Sace Elder became the new chair of the history department on July 1 after teaching at SACE ELDER Eastern for 15 years. She said she believed becoming the department chair would be the next step and challenge in her career and when it was announced, she said she felt humbled. “I felt pleased that my colleagues thought highly enough of me that they had confidence I could do it and that the dean and provost also had confidence in me,” Elder said. Elder said the hardest and longest thing she thought about when she became the department
chair was leaving the collective bargaining unit, Eastern’s chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois. She said she has been a union member since she was a graduate student at the University of Illinois and she was on the EIU-UPI executive board for the last three years. She said another challenge that comes from becoming department chair is not having as much of an opportunity to work directly with students. Elder is a modern German historian by training and teaches Modern Germany, History of World War I, Women and Gender in Modern Europe, History of Human Rights, Modern World History and the Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. “You have to find the time differently, it doesn’t happen quite as organically as when you’re teaching full time or coordinating a program and teaching,” Elder said when talking about her new position. She said she is working to stay in touch with students, which is important to her.
Myrtle Trazo, a graduate history student, said Elder is a phenomenal educator and is dedicated to the well-being of her students. “She isn’t just involved, she’s very involved in the history department,” Trazo said. “She’s also a very active member on campus. She’s always wanting to improve what's out there in terms of education.” As for the future, Elder said that she and the history department are in full planning mode for upcoming events. In November, both the history and English departments will partner up for the James Jones Lecture Series. In February, the department is having its annual History Careers Day and from May 9 to May 31 Elder and Christine Eydt-Beebe, the chair for the foreign languages department, will lead a study abroad trip to Germany. Katelyn Eddington can be reached at 581-2812 or at kdeddington@eiu.edu.
CUPB will talk about proposed bylaw changes, FY 18,19 budget updates at 2 p.m. Friday meeting Staff Report | @DEN_News The Council on University Planning and Budget will discuss proposed bylaw changes at its meeting 2 p.m. Friday in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The CUPB will also hear from the Graduate School regarding sponsored research and fiscal year 2018 and 2019 budget updates. The News staff can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.