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The Eastern women’s soccer team is in seventh place after its first win of the season.
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Freshmen numbers up 24.5 percent from last year, total headcount up 7 percent Editor’s note: An additional story will be published in Thursday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News that takes a closer look at the factors that went into the increase in enrollment, how the increase in enrollment has affected Housing and Dining and the current retention efforts the university is using.
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Kendall Gibson is a junior family and consumer science major with a concentration in family sciences. She is leading students from the child and family life education center to the taste of the College of Health and Human Services event, which happened Tuesday in the library quad.
Eastern’s overall fall enrollment increased by 7.1 percent and the first-time freshmen enrollment increased by 24.5 percent compared to last fall. According to Eastern’s Tenth Day Enrollment numbers, there is a total head count of 7,526 students compared to last year’s number of 7,030, and of that there are 789 freshmen unlike last fall, which saw a total of 634.
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Faculty Senate discusses adding Study abroad seat for Unit B faculty member opportunities By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News The Faculty Senate discussed the role Unit B faculty should, or are able to, play on the senate, as well as shared governance and an annual lecture series at its meeting Tuesday. Annually contracted faculty, a part of the overall Unit B faculty, make up from one-third to one-fourth of almost every department on campus, with some departments employing more or less ACFs. Historically, there has been no involvement from ACFs in relation to the senate. Unit A faculty are evaluated on their campus service, while Unit B faculty are not required to be involved on campus. Provost Jay Gatrell said this lack of obligation should not matter, as being involved is important for all members of campus. “I think the challenge for Unit B colleagues, as well as ACF, is to bring them into the community, to encourage them to participate and to actually invite them to serve,” Gatrell said. “(University) citizenship isn’t merely about evaluations. I believe there’s something bigger about what we do here everyday.” Stefan Eckert, associate professor of music and senate member, said he is not sure that the lack of obligation is the only thing causing Unit B members hesitation. “After talking with (music Unit B faculty), we decided not to ask them to serve because … there is a possibility they won’t have a job, and that is very different from Unit A,” Eckert said. “It’s kind of bizarre to say ‘oh, we want you to be a part of (senate) but no, no, (the university) might not actually have a contract for you’. I find that a little cruel because we have this issue that (music) could not function without (Unit
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Any students interested in studying abroad should check out the Eastern’s study abroad fair. It will be held on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the University Ballroom at the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. Emily Tooy, the study abroad coordinator, said the fair is helpful for students wanting more information on studying abroad. “Students interested in studying abroad are encouraged to go to the study abroad fair,” Tooy said. Eastern offers numerous programs all over the world for students to study abroad, many of which will make an appearance at the fair. “Eastern has hundreds of programs for students who want to study abroad,” Tooy said. There are in fact 583 programs at 303 locations in 56 different BROOKE SCHWARTZ | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS countries, according to Eastern’s study abroad website. Steve Brantley is the head of reference and instruction services and a member of the There are faculty-led programs, exchange programs and indeFaculty Senate. The senate met Tuesday and discussed Unit B faculty participation on pendent programs for all different areas of study. the senate, shared governance and a presidential lecture series. Eleni Tzounakos is a graduate assistant majoring in counseling who is from Greece, and she is studying at Eastern this year. B), and we talk about … including them, but at said, while it would be important to have their She also works in the study abroad office. the same time if there is anyone laid off, it will voices on the senate, it might be too much. “The experience is incredible,” she said of the study abroad be them before (Unit A) because of contracts.” “We are basically asking them to do some- program. Gatrell said that historically, Unit B positions thing for nothing,” he said. Before applying to study abroad, students should consider have been “extraordinarily stable” positions, and Todd Bruns, scholarly communication li- when they want to go and which program is best for them. Eckert said that that is true, except when look- brarian and institutional repository director as According to Eastern’s study abroad website, students can ing back at the past three years, which he said well as Faculty Senate chair, said he would be choose to study abroad during spring or winter break, fall or were extremely hard on Unit B faculty. in favor of creating a set Unit B position on the spring semester, during the summer or even all year. Eastern is an extremely different environ- senate in an effort to encourage someone from Spring and winter break programs last one or two weeks. Summent now than it was in the recent past, Ga- that category to run. mer programs last anywhere between two and six weeks, dependtrell said. ing on the location. Without a contractual obligation, Eckert FACULTY SENATE, page 5 STUDY ABROAD, page 5