UP TO BAT
After being delayed for weather, the Panthers baseball team lost a doubleheader against Austin Peay during the OVC opener Sunday in Clarksville, Tenn. PAGE 8
FLEXIN’ TO THE FINISH A total of 22 participants competed for
the body-sculpting titles of Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness and Ms. Physique Saturday in the McAfee Gym. PAGE 3
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“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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Athletic budget specifics expanded By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News Eastern has been experiencing a lack of revenue over the years, mainly due to the enrollment decline. As a result, many areas have sustained losses in funding for their departments. Recently, many faculty members have questioned the athletics budget when it was reported that the athletic department spending resulted in a $1 million deficit. Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said Eastern has experienced significant revenue loss because of the lack of enrollment. “Most recently, not unlike a lot of areas throughout the university, there’s been a shortfall of revenue, and that basically has been primarily because enrollment has gone done significantly in a short period of time,” Nadler said. Nadler said this past year athletics had its own shortfall of revenue, which resulted in the $1 million deficit. “What I have been doing is going around and trying to share some numbers and circumstances and situations with various groups,” Nadler said. “I’ve presented to the Faculty Senate. I’ve presented to Student Senate. I’ve presented to CUPB. I’ve presented to the Board of Trustees.” Nadler said Eastern has 452 student-athletes and they generate close to $3.8 million in tuition revenue on a yearly basis, which then goes into the university’s income fund. “From the income fund, athletics receives an annual allocation of $1.8 million,” Nadler said. Nadler also said subtracting the $1.8 million from the $3.8 million will result in a tuition revenue contribution of $2.8 million. Jonathan Blitz, a chemistry professor, said one of the problems with the athletics budget is the $3.8 million calculation is highly inflated. Blitz also said while $3.8 million is the true number, Nadler should not be counting on the assumption that the entire amount will be received. “What he’s assuming is all these 452 would leave and there would be no tuition revenue generated if they weren’t student athletes,” Blitz said. Blitz said this equates the students paying tuition with them being athletes. “The assumption that he makes in this number is that every one of these students would not attend EIU if they weren’t participating in athletics,” Blitz said. “That’s how he comes up with that number, that’s the implicate assumption.” Blitz also said Nadler did not include the amount of student fees that goes toward athletics. “This past year, there was a million-dollar shortfall,” Nadler said. “Basically, student athletes contributed about $900,000 to the income fund.” Blitz said the statement about student athletics generating $1 million is true. “The claim that student athletes generate $1.8 million in tuition factually correct,” Blitz said. “However, much if not most that is subsidized by student fee money in the form of grant-in aid scholarships go to support student athletes.” Blitz said Nadler acknowledges $2 million is provided from state appropriations, but he does not acknowledge as student fees as income.
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Greta Dieter, a sophomore political science major, gives tours of Andrews Hall to admitted students and their families on Saturday.
Admitted students tour campus By Cassie Buchman City Editor| @DEN_News Many prospective students and parents could be seen walking through campus, going on tours and attending different programs at Eastern’s Admitted Student Day on Saturday. Danish Mohiudden, an admitted student from Park Ridge, said he was really tired after the threehour drive to Eastern. He said he decided to apply to Eastern because he thought he could get in, and it was somewhat far away from where he lives. Finding out about housing, classes and the faculty-to-student ratio were especially important to Mohuidden. “Some friends said it was a good college,” he
said. “I’m just trying to see how it is.” Afrian Ali, from Norwood Park, also thought the distance was an important factor in choosing where to go. “I wanted to be away from all the distractions of home,” he said. Programs for prospective students included financial aid counseling, a “classroom experience,” where they could see what classes were like, an academic fair and a student involvement fair. At the academic fair, students like Conner Land, from Paris, Ill., were able to get information about their potential majors, which in his case was art. He said the people were helpful and answered a few questions he had. Eastern was the only school he applied to.
“I knew I wanted to go here,” Land said. Land said he wanted to go into video game designing, and Eastern had a good graphic design program. Amijah Collins, from Swansea, was also able to talk to people about her nursing major. “I talked to the biology department, the Lakeview College of Nursing,” she said. Her grandmother, Phyllis Goss, said her granddaughter wanted to become a nurse after seeing her grandfather in the hospital with cancer. “He was in the cancer department, and when she was a little girl she was always with us,” she said. Goss said she was looking for a school for Collins where she would be successful. ADMITTED, page 5
Glassman to face Eastern’s challenges By Luis Martinez Administration Editor | @DEN_News With David Glassman set to fill the president’s seat on June 1, many are anticipating how he will deal with two issues facing Eastern: low enrollment and decreasing state appropriations. Glassman said he is anxious and ready to get started. “Eastern is not unique in enrollment decline,” he said. “What I hope to do is develop a plan to move forward.” Glassman said he thinks the proposed 31.5 percent cut to higher education in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget should be discussed among all the public institution presidents. “I want for all presidents to come together and have a uniformed voice,” Glassman said. “I’m going to be a strong advocate and talk with our legislators, administrators and the media.” Paul Schroeder, the vice president for enrollment management at Bradley University, has worked with Glassman for two and a half years. Glassman is currently the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bradley. “I have seen him in the position of provost be
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David Glassman, the newly elected president of Eastern, answers questions at a press conference in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union March 2 in the University Ballroom. Glassman will begin his presidency in the summer of 2015.
able to work with the deans, with the faculty, work very closely with the president, worked with myself in terms of enrollment management issues,” Schroeder said. “And I believe he has a broad knowledge base on which to deal with the challenges that colleges and universities face today.”
He said Glassman has encouraged deans and faculty to support enrollment management efforts and examined academic programs to make them more “robust and attractive” to incoming students. Schroeder said both private and public universities are having enrollment issues, especially in the Midwest with the declining number of students graduating high school, and both types are facing less state appropriations in Illinois. “Consequently with dwindling resources, they are going to have to think a little bit more like a private institution in terms of how to attract students to the university,” Schroeder said. Glassman said he plans on showcasing what an Eastern education looks like and talking to different areas on campus including admissions to examine ways to bring in more students. Glassman also said social media is important when it comes to attracting students to the university. Jason Blumenthal, the student body president at Bradley, said Glassman is a leader who wants to hear others’ opinions, and he often looks specifically at national trends for other universities.
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