The Marquette Tribune Volume 108, Number 3
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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Securing Our Future Plan
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Several crowd members design signs advocating for proper teaching salaries in protest of university recommendations. By Gabriel Mannion
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At the Sept. 30 University Academic Senate meeting to discuss the Securing Our Future plan, around 10 student and staff attendees held up signs with messages like “unions are indispensable,” “underpaying workers is theft” and “more work for less compensation” to protest the university’s budget cuts within the recommendation. Several attendees of the meeting specifically named academic programs they know are being cut and
By Lance Schulteis
felt the university was attempting to keep a secret. The UAS meeting saw over 50 in-person attendees and nearly 100 viewers on Zoom. Overall, the atmosphere was tense due to the nature of the discussion about budget, staff and salary cuts. Displeased murmurs could be heard in the crowd each time one of these topics was brought up. The Marquette Board of Trustees endorsed the new strategic plan, Marquette 2031: Securing our Future, last December. 2031
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Hispanic Heritage Month
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On Sep. 13, the Marquette Mile was graced with a myriad of colors as students marched with flags to officially open a month-long stretch of cultural celebration. The parade of designs recognized each Lat-
in American country to acknowledge those with connections to every nation. As opened by the march, Marquette University is recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month from Sep. 15 through Oct. 15 with a variety of events to commemorate
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Students marched with flags that represented different Latin American countries.
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will mark the 150th anniversary of Marquette and the new strategic plan will shape how the next 150 years may look. The strategic plan implementation is co-led by Alix Riley, chief academic effectiveness officer, and Lora Strigens, vice president for planning and facilities management. The Marquette Board of Trustees sees this plan as necessary after holding conversations with peers at other universities facing larger budget shortfalls, resulting in
some universities closing entirely. The Securing Our Future Plan states, “Many saw the same issues [in the budget] coming but did not act soon enough.” Guided by Mission, Inspired to Change serves as the framework for the strategic plan which highlights three key themes and goals. The first theme, Thriving Students, focuses on the objectives of ensuring excellence, strengthening learning opportunities, advancing innovation and fostering belonging. Healthy Campus is the second theme that focuses on a welcoming environment, alumni engagement, programming to meet the needs of society and delivering Marquette’s mission efficiently. The third and final theme is Care for the World. It focuses on systems that facilitate faith and justice, creating community networks, enhancing campus research and expanding strategic partnerships. Roughly $12.4 million of the $31 million of the Securing Our Future plan will fund initiatives in the 2031 Strategic Plan including staff, faculty compensation and student success. This money will be reinvested over the next six fiscal years. The recommendations for the plan are specific and cover multiple topics. They highlight enrollment strategy, program sustainability, reorganization of college and academic department structure, teaching efficiency, investment in research and centralization of services. The recommendation will look to see how the campus budget is
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culture and community. The collection of festivities in collaboration with the Center of Engagement and Inclusion strives to foster identity, connections and cultural pride, some students say. The celebration began with the Orgullo Hispano (Hispanic Pride) March. The march spanned across the Marquette Mile, looping from 11th Street to 16th Street while displaying flags of Latin American countries. The flags played a role in representation during the march, as the inclusion of each Latin American country aimed to make students feel seen and celebrated. “Even if there’s maybe only one student on campus that’s from a certain country like them, seeing
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that flag being walked across the campus might mean something to them,“ Laura Hernandez, Business Operations Coordinator of the College of Nursing and co-chair of the Latinx Employee Resource Group, said. “It might be something super simple as taking some flags and walking across campus. But just the fact that there’s employees and groups on campus that are willing to put this together, it really means a lot.” While the flags were intended to convey meaning by celebrating individual backgrounds, there was also significance found in the collection of different heritages. “We had students from Colombia, from Peru, we had Costa Rican
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