The Illinois Board of Higher Education will discuss a two-part report on salaries and fringe benefits at Illinois colleges and universities that will be presented at the meeting.

Part A of the report considers salaries for full-time employees of higher education institutions, and Part B will deal with non-salary benefits along with salaries for an examination of total faculty compensation for the fiscal years 1995 and 1999 through 2002.

The competitiveness of salaries and the absence of new funds for salary increases in fiscal year 2003 will be a part of this report.

The IBHE meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Kishwaukee College Conference Center in Malta.

Presentations from various committees, including the Faculty Advisory Council and the Student Advisory Committee, concerning items on the meeting’s agenda will be made, and other orders of business will follow.

The Committee of Affordability, established at a meeting on Aug. 20, will announce its members, who have been appointed from the IBHE and the Illinois Student Advisory Committee. The first meeting for the Committee on Affordability will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago.

A presentation of Institutional Results Report will follow. The purpose of the Results Report, the institutions and agencies submitting reports and the winners of the best reports will be identified.

Kennedy-King College, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of St. Francis and Western Illinois University are among the winners being presented.

An item focusing on student success also will be discussed by the IBHE. Factors including student persistence and degree completion, institutional practices and the breadth of diversity in the system of higher education will be part of the discussion, and the ultimate goal related to this issue is to increase both the number and the various backgrounds of students completing degrees.

The items on the IBHE’s agenda for today’s meeting are light at this time of year, as the board is between budget discussions, said Blair Lord, vice president of academic affairs.

Lord said the next budget meeting for the for the fiscal year 2004, which usually generates the most interest, will occur in December.