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Wendler to take questions at Faculty Senate meeting

Daily Egyptian

Factoid: The Faculty Senate meeting is at 1 p.m. today in the Kaskaskia-Missouri Rooms of the Student Center.

Chancellor Walter Wendler will give a report on the collective bargaining process and the 5 percent and 10 percent department budget cuts at today's Faculty Senate meeting.

Wendler will give a brief update on the collective bargaining process. During last week's three-day stretch of faculty and administration bargaining, proposals from both sides were exchanged Friday.

The administration will review the Faculty Association's proposals, which included compromise language on salary, workload and student-faculty ratios, until Thursday's negotiations resume.

Departmental proposals on 5 percent to 10 percent budget cuts have all been submitted to the Chancellor's office in late November. Wendler said a campus-wide committee is in the process of being formed to review the recommendations. The committee will decide which of the ideas presented would be beneficial to the University as a whole, Wendler said.

Wendler, along with Provost and Vice Chancellor John Dunn, will take questions from the senate members.

The senate will also vote on a resolution to eliminate a bachelor's degree in Music education in the College of Education and Human services and another resolution to approve financial and international specializations for the undergraduate economic degree in the College of Business Administration.

James Allen, chair of the senate's Undergraduate Education Policy committee, said the resolutions are "housekeeping operations" that will not have a negative impact on students or faculty.

Music majors are enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts' School of Music program while no student is currently enrolled in the College of Education's music program.

For the other resolution, Allen said approving the business resolution will only enhance the degree's marketability.

Reporter Jane Huh can be reached at jhuh@dailyegyptian.com

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