DOUBLE OVERTIME
ROC THE HALLS
The Eastern men’s soccer team fell to Oral Roberts Saturday, 2-1.
Residence halls will compete for the title during ROC Fest.
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Glassman to give State of the University address By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman President David Glassman will give his State of the University address to the students, faculty and staff of Eastern and community members at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. In the speech, he will focus on three topics, which are an update on the budget, the strength of the university and the vision for Eastern’s future. Glassman will address the measures the university has taken so far to balance the budget and the implications of uncertainty in the state’s appropriation, the need for the university to come together in optimism and positivism for its future. The need for marketing and branding the university and implementing an integrative and strategic recruitment plan to increase Eastern’s student enrollment will also be a topic. “I will also be presenting a framework for a pathway of EIU success,” Glassman said. Glassman said he hoped the remarks will provide an understanding of where the university is relative to balancing the budget for the current year, how strong the university is from viewing the accomplishments from the past year and the knowledge that a collaborative plan will be developed for moving the university forward in its educational mission and with financial sustainability. This is the first time Glassman has given such a speech. “As dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana, I would annually give a State of the College address,” he said. “But this will be my first State of the University address.” “I have been working on the remarks for several weeks,” he said. “First by outlining the areas and topics I wanted to include in the address; researching the facts and data to be presented, writing each section individually and
Yearbook photos to begin Staff Report | @DEN_News Starting Monday, registered student organizations will be able to take organization photos for the Warbler yearbook. Dominic Baima, the editor for the Warbler, said these photos would take place at 5-8 p.m. in the Greenup Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. “All RSO(s) are welcome; they’re free,” Baima said. “No reservations are required, they just have to show up.” Also starting this week will be senior portraits; senior portraits will start Monday through Oct. 9th in Buzzard Hall. “You can schedule them, if you’re graduating in December, spring, or summer,” Baima said. “You can get it for free, or you can pay for poses. There is a basic option you can do for free.” Students looking to sign up for senior photos can go to laurenstudios.com to schedule their appointment using the school code, Panther. “It’s a chance for (students) to be a part of EIU’s documented history,” Baima said. Senior portraits will be in the journalism conference room in Buzzard Hall.
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David Glassman was approved as Eastern's next president succeeding Bill Perry on March 2 during the Board of Trustees meeting in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Glassman will be holding his State of the University address Monday at 3:30 p.m. in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
going through numerous drafts.” These drafts were used to edit and reduce the length of the speech to fit a time of approximately 45 minutes. Glassman said he invites all members of the university to attend the speech, according to a press release written in the university newslet-
ter. “I invite all to attend and ask supervisors to allow staff members interested in attending to be able to leave their work areas for the presentation,” he said. “I look forward to seeing you there.” The Office of Marketing and Creative Ser-
vices is planning to publish the delivered speech at the conclusion of Glassman’s address. Those interested can find the speech on the media relations website. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
Administrator optimistic for Eastern By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman Although the state budget for Illinois has not been passed yet, the university is still operating without one. Paul McCann, the vice president of business affairs, said right now the lacking state budget does not affect the university as a whole. “Eventually, when we use all of the tuition money at that point then it will have some effect because then I need those dollars to pay people to run the university,” he said. McCann said although they have tuition money now, it will run out at some point this year. “Tuition money is about as broad a use as any dollars that we get,” McCann said. At the Council on University Planning and Budgeting meeting, he told the members of the CUPB that they were looking at a March-April timeline when they will start running low on money. “During the budget cuts, we’ve been looking at various other ways we might be able to save money,” McCann said. “The bottom line is the state budget will be adopted at some point. There will be money coming forward to the university.” McCann said he does not know what the numbers will be; he said the university would still continue to run the way they have in previous years.
“The bottom line is the state budget will be adopted at some point. There will be money coming forward to the university.” - Paul McCann, vice president of business affairs “We will do whatever we have to do to maintain the university and to produce students and to provide their education as we’ve done in the past,” McCann said. Eastern usually gets around $40 million from the state. McCann said there are four or five sources of funds. About $100 million comes from tuition and from the appropriation from the state. “There are local fees, the fees you pay in your tuition bill that makes up another part of the money we have, and then you have the housing and the auxiliary facilities areas that make up the rest of our total,” McCann said. So far the university has cut operating expenses over the last few years, but when that was no longer an option, they started cutting per-
sonnel. McCann said he was not aware of the budget being this late before. “A few years ago, maybe 10 years ago, it did come in September, maybe October in that timeframe, but I’m not even sure we’re going to have a budget at that point this year,” he said. They usually expect the budget to be done May 31, of the last fiscal year, becoming effective in July, meaning the budget for this fiscal year was expected May 31, 2015. McCann said he thought the reason for the budget being late this year is because of the disagreements at state levels. “The Democrats and the Republicans and the governor and the speaker of the house don’t agree on how to fund the operations of the state,” McCann said. The governor proposed a 31.5 percent decrease in his original budget address as opposed to a 6.5 percent decrease proposed by the legislatures. McCann does not know where the budget is going to be, but he does not think it will be 31.5 percent. “I don’t know where it’s going to be. I don’t think it’s going to be at 31.5, don’t think it’s going to be at zero. It’s going to be somewhere in between there,” McCann said. “Our job is then to figure out how to use that money once the legislature decides.”
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