SOCCER GOALS
The men’s soccer team is looking to end its losing streak when members face off against NIU.
HOME SWEET HOME
Foreign exchange student Nicholas Stuart talks about the differnces between the U.S. and Austrailia.
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EASTERN’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS First-time freshman enrollment is up 2 percent; graduate student enrollment is up 3.5 percent, and honors student enrollment is up 5 percent from last year. U.S. News & World Report ranked Eastern the No.1 public regional comprehensive Illinois university and No. 5 among the 12 state Midwest regional public master’s universities. Eastern was cited among the Best Online Colleges in Illinois for 2015-16 by onlinecolleges.net and recognized in Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges for the third year. Eastern’s University Advancement Office had $11.1 million in gifts received and pledged for FY 15 and passed its goal of achieving 100 new student scholarships. During the past school year 7,400 students participated in a total of 159,000 community service hours. Booth Library was awarded the 2014 Illinois Library Association Demco Library Innovative Award for its programming success.
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President David Glassman addresses students, faculity, staff and community members about the budget, enrollment and the community during the State of the University Address Monday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Dounda Fine Arts Center.
Information from President David Glassman’s State of the University Address given Monday.
Glassman talks marketing plans, athletics By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor|@cjbuchman Eastern President David Glassman said he expects the university’s enrollment to grow and stabilize by 2017 during his State of the University Address on Monday. Glassman also said athletics would report to the Office of the President as opposed to Student Affairs. Glassman said the transition would provide a chance for them to take a long-needed breath. Intercollegiate athletics received $1.6 million
generated from the university’s appropriated and tuition revenue of about $90 million. “This is down from $1.9 million a few years ago,” Glassman said. Glassman said he cut the athletic appropriated and tuition funding an additional $320,000, which brought it down to a total of $1.28 million. The student athletic fee was increased by $4.36 per-credit hour to assist intercollegiate athletics in meeting its expenses. This action was challenging because of the decline in student enrollments, which resulted in
the school getting less fee revenue. Without an increase in athletic fees or appropriated funding, intercollegiate athletics ran annual deficits from about $300,000 to slightly less than $1 million. “These deficits were covered, as were other deficit spending by the university reserves,” Glassman said. Even though they had a reduction in their appropriated funding, Intercollegiate Athletics has had to maintain a balanced budget with the new student fee rate. Director of athletics Tom Michael said he did
not know if the transition would change what everyone sees on the outside about athletics. “What we’re trying to do is make athletics to fit the university better and certainly reporting to President Glassman is something that I’m excited about,” he said. Jonathan Blitz, president of the University Professionals of Illinois, said a part of the address that surprised him was the transition of athletic reports from the Office of Student Affairs to the president.
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Senate to discuss CATS UB tickets selling slowly By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor|@cjbuchman Changes to the Center for Academic Technology Support media center will be a topic for the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday. The meeting will be at 2 p.m. in 4440 Booth Library. Jemmie Robertson, the Faculty Senate chair, spoke at the Board of Trustees meeting Sept. 18, which will also be of topic Tuesday. Robertson asked the board about student fee increases that he and other faculty senate members had noticed. “If we can rescind an instructor’s contract, can we not rescind a fee increase?” he asked. Pete Grant, the director of digital and multimedia services for the CATS, sent an email call-
ing for the CATS Multimedia to be renamed Research, Education, and Applied Learning Multimedia Center. In the email, Grant gave examples of all the ways CATS helps the university, but he understood that the university had to make some difficult decisions. “But my big concern here is two-fold,” Grant said. “First, I don’t know what the future will look like without the valuable services provided by CATS Multimedia Services and Media Services. Second, and most important, what will happen to the student opportunities that were provided by CATS Multimedia, through collaborative efforts with other areas?”
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By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor|@DEN_News
With Family Weekend and the Three Dog Night concert less than two weeks away, more than 300 tickets have been sold. Family Weekend is Oct. 9-11. Director of student life Ceci Brinker said the amount is normal and ticket sales should pick up closer to the actual event. “(The numbers) are low, but we’re still pretty optimistic that they’ll pick up in the next two weeks,” Brinker said. “Parents are still making plans to come to Family Weekend.” Brinker said the tickets sales are slow, but one of the challenging aspects with promoting the event is notifying parents about the concert. “I think part of the challenge is parents are
used to the Family Weekend mailer that use to go out to them in the mail,” Brinker said. “Due to budget cuts, we cut that out about two years ago so that makes it really challenging for them to get information.” Brinker also said students are the ones who receive all the information pertaining to the Family Weekend events. “The challenge there is this is information that the students are passing on to parents,” Brinker said. “We’re still optimistic that sales will pick up.” Brinker said another reason is parents are still trying to make their plans to come to Eastern, and the costs for lodging and other events during the weekend also need to be considered.
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