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didn’t have the label. Otterson explained a few goals of the Women’s Center. “Whether it is the True Life sexual assault awareness we provide to all First Year students every August, or the Half the Sky viewing last week about the sexual violence done on a massive scale to girls worldwide - or, yes, the Barbie for President TGIF this week WUIS-ad-20121011-18-3.75x6.pdf - all these (events)1 are carefully thought through
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Addressing the Campus Senate, Pardie said, “The University of Illinois as a whole has been told to prepare for a possible 40 percent increase in pension and health care costs, which will represent an enormous additional pressure on the budget.” Shures wants to be clear that, “We are now playing on a whole different field. We’re always looking for ways to do things better with less money.” UIS has recently hired more part-time instructors to teach classes. Although Shures acknowledges this is a “smart business maneuver” that avoids the hiring commitment made to tenure-track faculty, he does not necessarily see it as a trend for UIS. Utilizing non-contractual instructors and part-time faculty is an inevitable cost-cutting measure, but the number of instructorships at UIS is still lower than that of peer institutions, according to Shures. The university has begun keeping track of “instructional resource metrics” to measure such things as how many students a faculty member teaches each term. If the load is high enough, then a departmental dean may be able to justify a new faculty hire, but only after it can be demonstrated that the money spent on salary and benefits will come back in tuition and enrollment. “That’s the worst part,” Shures said, “having to hook those two things together.” Higher education has historically focused on, “What is best academically for these students in this program. But, unfortunately, now the external funding is drying up.” Pardie is looking for ways to meet the needs of prospective and current students by forming an ad hoc steering committee to collect data from occupational outlooks, ideas from faculty, and inquiries from students. The goal is to anticipate the majors students will be looking for. “We know that we have many prospective students that contact us who are looking for particular majors,” she said while addressing the Campus Senate. “If we don’t offer them, they’re not going to entertain us as a possibility.” “This has been a story we’ve been telling for a long time,” said Shures. The ways in which the campus administration reacts – by cutting costs where it can and adapting to the needs and desires of students – will maintain educational quality without exorbitant price increases.
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choices meant to, in their combined wholeness, really speak the core issues of a lessening of fear-based power structures, encouraging human compassion and responsibility to radical truthfulness and kindness - and offer some of bit transformative empowerment for all,” she said. “Generally, humans don’t relish the ideas of change anyway - and this feminist insight is profoundly transformative, not simply a rights movement - although it is that, too,” Otterson said. 10/5/2012 6:02:45 PM
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