The amount of funding the colleges received this fall from extra tuition revenue was about half of what it was last fall.

Collectively, the four colleges received $503,455 this semester, while last fall they received $987,457.

The money is distributed based on the Tuition Recovery Model, which takes profit made from non-major courses designed to attract enrollment and gives them to each college.

The amounts range from $5,571 this semester for the College of Arts and Humanities to $289,878 for the College of Sciences.

Faculty Senate will address this decrease in funding, as well as the elimination of the John Wiley periodical package of more than 2,000 journals from Booth Library, during its meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Booth Library Conference Room.

Grant Sterling, the chair of Faculty Senate, said members would likely have questions about why such a drastic change was implemented, and why it was implemented without warning the departments.

He said the Tuition Recovery Model funds are critical parts to some academic programs, and coupled with the existing university-wide budget cuts, the departments are struggling.

The Tuition Recovery Model Policies and Procedures was revised and signed by Paul McCann, the interim vice president for business affairs, on Nov. 21.

Sterling said discussion on the elimination of the John Wiley periodicals would likely consist of similar questions on why such a decision was made and without consultation with faculty or the Faculty Senate.

“People will probably have concerns over whether that was really the best way to save money for the university and concerns about the way the decision was made,” Sterling said.

Kraig Wheeler, a chemistry professor, sent an email to the Faculty Senate expressing his apprehensions about the collection’s removal.

“I realize we are in economic turmoil, but the removal of this fundamental resource will have far reaching impact on our scholarship/teaching community,” Wheeler said in the email.

Wheeler also indicated in the email that the decision should have involved conversations with faculty.

“The Library has made and implemented a decision without providing discussion from those this decision impacts,” he said.

According to statistics Wheeler sent to the Faculty Senate, 5,264 of the Wiley journals were used in 2013, and the collection is set to be eliminated Jan. 1.

The Faculty Senate will also review data regarding changes in enrollment, degrees and credit hours from 2009 to 2014.

On the agenda as well is planning the Faculty Senate schedule for the spring semester and considering changes to its constitution and bylaws.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].