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SIU Board of Trustees approves fiscal year 2006 budget proposals
Ashley Richardson
Daily EgyptianThe SIU Board of Trustees was hard at work Thursday, approving budget requests, performance reports and faculty and administrative positions.
The BOT unanimously approved the Resource Allocation and Management Program proposals for fiscal year 2006 during its meeting at the SIU School of Medicine in Springfield.
The SIU System will request $377 million in planning and operation costs for fiscal year 2006. These costs include program creation and the recruitment and retention of critical faculty and staff, as well as graduate and minority students. SIUC is requesting a total amount of $292.2 million.
Capital requests, which include construction projects and renovations, total more than $131.4 million, with $70.8 million going to SIUC and the SIU School of Medicine.
Also approved at the meeting was the "FY 2004 Performance Report", an annual report mandated by the Illinois Board of Higher Education in conjunction with the Illinois Commitment.
Adopted by the IBHE in 1999, the Illinois Commitment identifies six goals to help guide Illinois colleges and universities in their policies and budgets for 10 years.
Don Sevener, IBHE director of external relations, said the report is a way for Illinois colleges and universities to relate their individual campus goals to the statewide objectives outlined in the Illinois Commitment.
Goals listed in the commitment are: economic growth, affordability, access and diversity, productivity and accountability, teaching and learning, and high expectations and quality.
John Haller, vice president for Academic Affairs, said he believes the SIU System was effective in meeting the six goals, despite the budget crisis.
"I think we fulfilled what our objectives were," Haller said. "I think given the fiscal constraints that affected all of us in higher education, we did extremely well in meeting the goals of the Illinois Commitment."
The report will be submitted to the IBHE, where a statewide report will be compiled.
The BOT also ratified the appointments of Gary Minish as the new dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Jerry Blakemore as the chief legal counsel to the University. Minish, whose term begins Aug. 1, will replace interim dean Robert Arthur. His salary is reportedly $155, 000.
The board will reconvene Sept. 9.
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