With the 10th day of school complete, the Faculty Senate will bring three guests to discuss different enrollment figures.

Director of Admissions Brenda Majors, Robert Augustine, dean of the Graduate School, and Bonnie Irwin, dean of the Honors College, will discuss with the senate 10th-day enrollment numbers.

The senate typically conducts a discussion on enrollment figures every year. Last year, the senate hosted the discussion before the 10th day of school, making the discussion based on enrollment projections.

“We wanted to wait until the 10th day came through,” said Faculty Senate Chair John Pommier. “Most of them already have their presentation together, but they also wanted to make sure that they are giving us real numbers.”

The senate will host its regular meeting at 2 p.m. today in Booth Library Conference Room 4440.

Pommier said Majors will discuss freshmen and new transfer enrollment numbers. Augustine will discuss graduate and international student enrollment, and Irwin will discuss enrollment in the National Student Exchange.

“I wanted to try and keep getting exposure with NSE, but if she has other enrollment numbers she wants to throw at us, that’s great,” Pommier said of why he wanted Irwin to visit the senate.

NSE is an undergraduate program that allows students to attend universities in other places in the United States or Canada.

Pommier said the senate will be interested to hear what stories each guest has to share. He added the senate wants to hear about the quality of the students Eastern is bringing to campus, such as the ACT scores of freshmen and new transfer students.

The overall enrollment total could possibly be lower, but that is not necessarily a bad statistic for Eastern, Pommier said.

“There’s another side to it,” he said. “They are lower, possibly, but look at the quality of the students.”

He said Augustine is excited to share information with the senate.

“But he’s not telling me what it is, but he’s excited about the graduate and international enrollment,” Pommier said.

He added the senate would also look at enrollment trends and what each department has done differently with enrollment.

Blair Lord, provost and vice president for academic affairs, said 10th-day enrollment numbers would be released to the media and public either today or Wednesday.

In other business, the senate will take a vote on filling positions left by Robert “Bud” Fischer, who took a job at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and English professor Robin Murray.

Pommier said Murray’s class schedule conflicted with senate meeting times. The replacement for Murray will only be for the fall semester, he added. Murray will then return to the senate in the spring semester.

Pommier would not release the names on the potential replacements. A majority vote of senate members is needed to approve the replacements.

Stephen Di Benedetto can be reached at 581-7942 or at [email protected].