The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Faculty Senate criticizes University of Illinois proposal

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter December 7, 2016

  The Faculty Senate debated a resolution condemning the University of Illinois system for a funding proposal it sent to Springfield and set a date to discuss the vitalization project at its meeting...

Faculty Senate to discuss downsizing

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter November 29, 2016

  Faculty Senate will talk about possibly downsizing and voting on a new replacement for a Council on Academic Affairs member in their next meeting tomorrow at 2 p.m. in room 4440 of the Booth...

Faculty Senate talks vitalization transparency

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter November 16, 2016

  The Faculty Senate passed a resolution saying they rely on Eastern President David Glassman’s assurance that profit/loss sheets are only going to be used as one measure of data to critique...

Faculty senate seeks transparency

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter November 1, 2016

  The Faculty Senate raised concerns about workgroup transparency and discussed the search for a new provost during their meeting Tuesday. The workgroups the senate talks about are part of the...

Faculty Senate to discuss communications

Staff Report October 17, 2016

The Faculty Senate will discuss communications sent to them from philosophy professor and Faculty Senate member Grant Sterling and Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, at their next meeting. The...

Academics, athletics profit loss sheets raise questions

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter October 4, 2016

Jon Blitz, the president of Eastern’s chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois, spoke to the Faculty Senate Tuesday about the differences between the academic and athletic departments’ accounting...

Faculty Senate discusses potential nominees for vitalization project

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter September 26, 2016

Editor's Note: In the Sept. 21 issue of The Daily Eastern News the article covering the Sept. 13 Faculty Senate meeting was accidentally re-run in place of the Sept. 20 meeting article. This article from...

Groups to discuss Vitalization Project

Cassie Buchman, News Editor September 12, 2016

    Following a speech where Eastern President David Glassman announced the implementation of a Vitalization Project, the Faculty Senate will have an emergency meeting to discuss Tuesday. Faculty...

Glassman announces plan to ‘vitalize’ university

Cassie Buchman, News Editor September 8, 2016

At his State of the University Speech, President David Glassman announced the creation of a Vitalization Project meant to guide planning and budgeting decisions and make changes to programs and services...

Faculty Senate talks committees, profit-loss sheets

Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter September 7, 2016

  The Faculty Senate discussed concerns with how Eastern is approaching some trouble areas, such as the profit-loss sheets, and it assigned members to committees. Profit-loss sheets look at...

Faculty Senate to hear resolution on CUPB

Cassie Buchman, Administration Editor November 30, 2015

The Faculty Senate will hear a proposed resolution concerning the number of members on the Council on University Planning and Budgeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Room 4440 of Booth Library. Grant Sterling,...

Faculty Senate to close part of meeting, vote on resolution

Cassie Buchman, Administration Editor November 16, 2015

The Faculty Senate will invoke the Open Meetings Act to close part of the meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Booth Library. The first hour of the meeting will be open like any other Faculty Senate meeting,...

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