Editor’s Note: This story looks at some of the recommendations made in regards to academic programs during the vitalization project. Other Workgroup’s recommendations and how they pertain to and affect...

Edit: This story has been updated to to correct that it was the Master's program in Special Education that was being discussed, not the undergraduate program. The News regrets the error. Workgroup...

  Several members of Workgroup no.7, looking at academic programs, detailed the process and steps they took in their recommendations for the vitalization project. In an interview with The Daily...

Workgroup No. 3, enrollment management, acknowledged the need for improving transfer and non-traditional student registration, recruitment and evaluation efforts after listening to suggestions from staff...

  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...

  Workgroup No. 5, charged with looking at facilities, discussed its plan to modify their recommendations based on the responses they received about their report. Workgroup chair Steven Daniels,...

  Workgroup No. 7, focusing on academic programs, questioned how to format its final draft of recommendations and whether or not it should prioritize its recommendations at its meeting Tuesday. Workgroup...

  Workgroup no.8, Academic Visioning I, discussed sharing their group’s preliminary discussions online and having a town hall meeting next semester for the public to give feedback on them at...

Workgroup no. 1, focused on student services, discussed the responses to their recommendations and their plans for how they would change, reaffirm, modify or delete the items in their preliminary report. Heidi...

Workgroup No. 4, which is charged with making recommendations for intercollegiate athletics, discussed its next steps regarding the feedback from their preliminary recommendations at its Thursday meeting. They...