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Hutchinson named to All-Tourney team
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ENROLLMENT
Plans in place; administration looking ahead
CHARITY
BOWL of CASH
By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor
Eastern is not the only school in the area to suffer from an enrollment decrease, but plans are in place to increase enrollment in Fall 2013. Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, said the percentage for the state of Illinois shows the decrease as well. “It turns out that higher education enrollment from 2010 to 2011 in the state of Illinois declined about 2.7 percent,” Lord said. “That’s pretty unusual.” Lord said he believes the numbers from 2011 to 2012 will most likely show the decrease in enrollment to continue statewide. Some of Eastern’s competitors, including Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Western Illinois University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Illinois State University have showed the decrease as well. Lord attributed some of the decreased enrollment to the yearly increase in tuition each year. “Costs have gone up but aid has gone down,” he said. “The economy is just slaughtering people.” Lord said Eastern is down more than some of its competitor institutions for a few reasons. “We were down 6.8 percent this year for total enrollment,” he said. “The worst of our competitor institutions that I’ve seen so far is SIUC, which was down 970 students this fall.” He said to keep in mind that SIUC is a bigger school than Eastern, but the decrease is still 4.9 percentage-wise. Lord explained that Eastern had an enrollment bubble where enrollment was high, with enrollment above 12,000 for three years. Since the numbers were so high, Lord said Eastern slowed down with recruiting. Meanwhile, competitor schools were building up their recruiting styles after seeing Eastern’s numbers. “We weren’t being as aggressive when, in hindsight, we should have been in bringing in some of the best practices,” he said. “This has hit us harder because of that enrollment spike.” Lord said the process took a while to successfully contract with Noel-Levitz, who has been providing Eastern with consulting advice since the beginning of 2012. “We’ve made a ton of changes, progress and implementations of things that have positioned us very well for the next full cycle,” Lord said. “We’ve been using predictor models to help with this process.” To help improve fall enrollment for 2013, Lord said the university has implemented some plans. “For the first time this year with the Noel-Levitz assistance, we have what we call an operational recruitment plan for Fall 2013,” he said. “It has steps for everything they’re planning on doing this coming year.” Lord described the plan as a 5-year strategic plan with individual plans to be spun off of it every year. “This will give us a vision for where we’re trying to go and what we’re trying to accomplish,” he said. The Strategic Enrollment Planning Steering Committee, which is composed of the four vice presidents and four other people intimately involved with enrollment management, meets with a larger planning council that handles what Lord called the “elbow grease” of the operation. Lord said the committee is working on implementing a webpage so the entire Eastern community can follow what is being done to increase future enrollment. “Once everything is finalized, we’ll be able to display it,” he said. “Right now a lot of things are in draft form.” Lord said President Perry has high hopes for Fall 2013. “(President Perry) has stated to the board that it is his goal to have a 10 percent increase in new students,” Lord said. “The internal admissions plan for next fall also set a goal of a 15 percent increase for transfers, so they gave themselves an even higher goal to meet.”
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AMY MENGHINI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
Doyle Nave, a freshman foreign language major, donated money to Habitat for Humanity in the South Quad. The money collected will go toward the building of homes. During the Habitat for Humanity collection in the South Quad students donated money by putting it in a toilet bowl. The popular phrase to encourage students to donate was “Have a heart, have a soul, put some money in our bowl.”
Habitat flushes money into city, builds house for Charleston By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
A toilet has returned to the South Quad for the second year to raise money for the Eastern chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Katelin Caddell, the vice president and fundraising chairwoman, said this is the second year they have hosted “Give a Crap for Habitat.” “This one got a lot of people to notice us so we decided to do it again,” Caddell said. “Just having the toilet in the quad draws a lot of attention.” Brittany Allen, a Habitat member, said this is her first year with Habitat for Humanity, and she loves the toilet fundraiser. “It’s kind of funny standing by a toilet;
people just look at you,” Allen said. “It’s for a good cause.” Allen said the fundraiser works because it makes people wonder what is going on. “It’s abnormal to see a toilet anywhere besides a bathroom, so people want to know why it is in the quad,” Allen said. Caddell, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, and the other members of Habitat for Humanity stood out at the intersection in the quad asking people for spare change and informing them about the program. Roy Lanham, the Habitat for Humanity adviser, said the idea of “Give A Crap” was clever. “The idea is to raise awareness and make a difference in the lives of folks who don’t have
adequate housing so having a clever spin is a fun way to raise awareness,” Lanham said. Caddell said they are trying to make people curious or interested in what they are doing by attracting others with a megaphone and talking to people.
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Single mom to put down roots By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
Laura Cleavers traveled as a child and dreamed of putting down her roots in one place. With the current economy and being a single mom, she never had the resources to have her own home. “I’ve been wanting a house for a long, long time,” Cleavers said. “It was through Habitat for Humanity that my prayer was answered.”
Habitat for Humanity is starting the “blitz build” on Saturday. Cleavers said the foundation for the house has been laid, and they will place the subflooring Thursday. Cleavers said she was born in Hong Kong and traveled the world with her parents as a child before moving to Dallas, Texas. She said she was introduced to the country life of Illinois about 23 years ago when she visited a friend’s family for a week. When her son, Marshall Vaughn, needed tutoring for Attention Deficit Disorder in
the third grade, they moved to Charleston, where he received tutoring from the Newman Catholic Center. Her son, now 22, moved in with Cleavers when the economy had a downturn. Cleavers said she applied for the housing after a lady from her church told her about the program, right before two other people told her the same thing. “It sounded like suggestion, confirmation, confirmation so I acted on it,” Cleavers said. ROOTS, page 5