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THURSDAY November 17, 2016
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LONGFORM
More than a black engineer BY JAMES BOYD STAFF WRITER
It’s the first day of fall classes in 2013. Matthew Duncan isn’t sure about his major, but he is sure about something else. He wants to be on time. The first class of his college career, Preparation for Calculus, starts at 8 a.m., and he arrives 30 minutes before it begins. When Duncan opens the door, no other people are inside. Not even his professor. Several minutes pass before everyone else shows up, but then, class gets underway. That was four years ago, when Duncan was just a freshman in DGS. When he looks back on his freshman year, it’s one of the many moments that still stands out to him. It was the moment he realized he was actually a college student. “I was scared,” Duncan said. “I came from a graduating class of about 55-60 (people), and now, (I’m in) a graduating class of about 7,000.” On that day, Duncan became the first person from his high school, New Tech in Zion, Illinois, to attend the University. And soon after, he would become one of just 129 African-Americans in the College of Engineering.
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PORTRAIT OF MATTHEW DUNCAN BY RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINI
No heavy sanction for skipping FYCARE ry training programs. The University addresses the issues of sexual assault and harassment through these two programs: Haven and FYCARE. FYCARE is the most commonlyknown program, as every freshman is required to complete it. But Renee Romano, vice chancel-
lor of student affairs, said, “There is not a heavy sanction against those who don’t complete it.” She noted, however, that a high percentage of students do complete FYCARE successfully. Romano did not have numbers available for the percentage that completes Haven. “We try to emphasize to students that they need to complete these programs, and we get a really good response,” Romano said. Danielle Morrison, the University’s interim Title IX coordinator, said in an email that the University is committed to the safety of students and to improving prevention of and response to sexual misconduct. “The University’s Prohibition of Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct Policy requires all incoming, returning, and transfer students, LILY KATZ THE DAILY ILLINI as well as all faculty and staff, to
BY ANDREA FLORES STAFF WRITER
When students do not complete First-Year Campus Acquaintance and Rape Education, FYCARE, or Haven, they are referred to the Office of the Dean of Students, but there is no real punishment for not completing the so-called mandato-
The Women’s Resources Center provides a plethora of resource information.
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University awards nearly $2 million in raises we can to keep our amazing faculty here because other universities look at us and think this is a good time to poach.” Equity issues also merit raises. Such cases would arise when the University hires a new faculty member at a higher wage than current professors make because of the job market. The University would then increase the current professors’ salaries to match the new hire’s salary. Professors who receive campus,
ipate in a one percent campus salary program, which would award everyone a one percent raise, the cost would total around $8.5 billion, according to UI spokeswoman Robin Kaler. There are several reasons why faculty would receive raises despite the University not awarding them across the board. Promotions and tenure are common factors, Kaler said. Faculty retention was another major component this year. “Retention is very important, especially in challenging budget times,” she said. “We do everything
BY ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITER
The University awarded nearly $2 million in raises this year despite suspending campuswide raises amid the state budget impasse. The total so far reaches $1,911,465.42, just shy of last year’s $1,951,305.02 in raises. The raises range from $319.12 to $80,000 for salaries in the annual Gray Book, which includes all salaries the Board of Trustees approves. This figure is much smaller than in a typical year. In a normal year when the University would partic-
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Top 5 faculty raises NAME
DEPARTMENT
COLLEGE
JOB TITLE
PRESENT SALARY
PROPOSED SALARY
RAISE
Elizabeth Ann Chorvat
Accountancy
College of Business
Clinical assistant professor
$105,000
$185,000
$80,000
Thomas Sternburg
Accountancy
College of Business
Clinical assistant professor
$107,425
$185,000
$77,575
Assata Zerai
Office of the Chancellor
Chancellor
Interim associate $105,839 chancellor for diversity
$164,943
$59,104
Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk
Coordinated Science Lab
Alaina Kanfer
Institute for Genomic Biology
Engineering
Principal research scientist
$69,138
$104,754
$35,616
Research Institutes
Director of engagement and external relations
$51,600
$86,000
$34,400
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Students gather at Alma Mater to march through the Quad and down Green Street in order to protest President-elect Donald Trump on Friday.
Petition circulates for UI as immigrant sanctuary BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER
A petition to make the University a sanctuary for undocumented students is spreading in the wake of President-Elect Donald Trump’s win. A sanctuary area has policies of not cooperating with federal immigration authorities, providing public protection and safety for undocumented students. For example, the University of Illinois Police Department would not execute deportation orders and the administration would not share private student information about where they live. The petition was started by a group of professors from various liberal arts departments and has over 1,700 signatures so far. It will be sent to President Timothy Killeen, Chancellor Robert Jones and Associate Chancellor for Diversity Assata Zerai. Naomi Paik, assistant professor in Asian-American studies, helped start the petition and said faculty were brainstorming how they could show their students they want them to stay on campus. “There is definitely a deep and profound concern about what is
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going to happen come January 21,” she said. “Even for our U.S.born citizen students, they have parents, aunties and uncles that could face deportation. So we are talking about rupturing their foundation of their life.” She said she is unsure how many undocumented students are on campus, but she also said that number should be kept private so immigration officers and people who are anti-immigrant do not know. The idea is spreading across college campuses throughout the United States in fear of Trump’s plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants once he takes office in January. He has also promoted repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program created by President Barack Obama in an executive action in 2012. The act allows undocumented immigrants who were in the United States before the age of 16 to get a renewable work permit, allowing them to stay in the country for two years. “We are dealing with the Trumpeffect and want to make sure
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