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Students will get the chance to eat with pizza with President Perry and discuss issues with him 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the South Quad
Members of the Eastern football team won individual awards after Saturday’s 40-19 victory over San Diego State.
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“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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accreditation
Committee to review, revise new standards By Bob Galuski News Editor @DEN_News
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Jannelle Prisner, a senior tennis player, laughs with a teammate before the Alumni Tennis Match Saturday. Among the attending alumni, were all seven of Eastern’s last victorious Midcontinent University Championship team. Eastern has not won the championship in 30 years.
Jan Easter, class of 1977, returns the ball to her opponent during the Alumni Tennis Match Saturday. Easter met her husband, Ron Easter, on Eastern’s tennis courts in 1972. The two have been together ever since and will be celebrating their 37th wedding anniversary this year, Ron Easter said.
Current and former Eastern students gather for the Alumni Tennis Match Saturday at the Darling Tennis Courts.
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Art to be auctioned for HOPE By Stacey Catterson Staff Reporter @DEN_News Artists, a coffee shop owner, poets, bands and others are aiming to spread awareness on domestic violence for the 10th annual Night of HOPE. The non-profit organization HOPE of East Central Illinois will have art pieces from local artists available for auction throughout the month of September at Jackson Avenue Coffee to raise awareness of domestic violence. The art pieces will be up for display and available for bidding on the walls of Jackson Avenue Coffee. The bidding started Monday and will continue
through Sept. 27 until the event Night of HOPE bidding closes at 9 p.m. Along with the auctioning, there will be raffle tickets that cost $5 for purchase until Night of HOPE. Gaye Harrison, a board member of HOPE, said domestic violence is an on-going issue, and the efforts of HOPE continue all year long. “Music and ar t seems like a very good vehicle to spread awareness on domestic violence,” Harrison said. “We have been overwhelmed by the response by local artists.”
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Dano Reible, Althea Pendegast and Gaye Harrison stand behind artist Jamie Willis’s quilt piece Moonlight Magnolias. A Night of HOPE will take place at 6 p.m. on Sept. 27 at Jackson Avenue Coffee, 708 Jackson Ave.
Beginning in the fall of 2012, a two-year accreditation process came to full steam Wednesday and will be continuing for most of the school year. An accreditation for Eastern is a quality check for the university. Eastern’s steering committee, which oversees the process, has two chairs: Bob Augustine, the dean of the graduate school and Jeff Stowell, a psychology professor. The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools is accrediting Eastern. Augustine said the process is a two-year workin-progress and is constantly being worked on throughout the year. “The infrastructure of it began last fall,” he said. Augustine said the accreditation looks at the progress Eastern has made since the last time the university was accredited. “We also want to make sure the campus is informed about what we’re doing,” Augustine said. Even though the process has already started, Augustine said Eastern community members could contribute by coming to a First Friday seminar, which are checkpoints for the steering committee. The First Friday seminars are at 7:30 a.m. in the Loft of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. At each of the First Friday seminars, members of the steering committee will be presenting their section of the criterion. The criterion is split up into five different sections. The Mission criterion consists of explaining Eastern’s mission and making sure the public knows it. The Integrity criterion deals with the ethics of the university. The Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources and Support criterion works with the quality of the education offered to students. The criterion Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Improvement deals with how the institution handles the responsibility of its education quality and how effective the learning process is. Finally, the Resources, Planning and Institutional Effectiveness criterion sums up how Eastern is able to plan for the future with the quality of education it has, along with Eastern’s mission. Augustine said anybody who wants to come to the First Friday seminars are welcome. Augustine also said the criteria are available online on Eastern’s website. “Each First Friday we report out what we’re doing,” he said. He also said each report is a draft of what is happening and how the specific criterion is being handled, and they are looking for input from Eastern members. Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or rggaluski@eiu.edu.