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After audit, dropping classes could get harder JEFF ENGELHARDT Daily Egyptian The window of opportunity to drop classes could be closing after an audit showed SIU failed to report enrollment changes in the required timeframe, university spokesman Rod Sievers said. The enrollment reporting was one
of four different areas shown to have deficiencies in a report from the Illinois Office of the Auditor General, Sievers said. Many students drop classes after the 10-day window closes, making it hard to keep track of enrollment statuses for individual students. The report found 25 enrollment status changes went unreported out of a sample of 33 cases.
Sievers said the university failed to report the enrollment status of students to the National Student Clearinghouse for federal student loan programs because there was not strict enough implementation of the classdropping policy. Please see AUDIT | 3
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SIUC to offer textbook rentals RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian
SIUC will begin to rent textbooks to students after months of planning, Chancellor Sam Goldman said. At the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday, Goldman said the university would implement early stages of the plan in the fall, though it will not be in the early
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t will be implemented in the fall, but it will not be across the board. We have people still in meetings right now to discuss everything.
stages. “It will be implemented in the fall, but it will not be across the board,� he said. “We have people
— Sam Goldman chancellor still in meetings right now to discuss everything.� Goldman said members from the Saluki First Year Experience
committee had been in discussions to implement the program next year to help incoming freshmen. The university is in the last semester of its contract with the Follett Higher Education Group, the school’s textbook provider. Larry Dietz, vice chancellor for student affairs, had previously told the Daily Egyptian the university was looking to implement the program as it renegotiated its
contract with Follett. Follett launched a textbook rental program in fall 2009 at seven universities across the country. SIUC is not among the 58 universities listed to adopt the Rent-AText program this fall, according to the group’s Facebook page.
Ryan Voyles can be reached at rvoyles@dailyegyptian.com or at 536-3311 ext. 259.
ST. PATTY’S STEW
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Kyndal Park, the head cook at Callahan’s Irish Pub at 760 E. Grand Ave., stirs a pot of Guinness stew Tuesday in the pub’s kitchen. Guinness stew is one of three meals being offered today at the pub for St. Patrick’s Day and is also the most intricate, according to Park. The stew includes a gallon of Guinness beer, less than a gallon of
red wine and is cooked for three days, Park said. Corn beef and cabbage, the stew and bangers and mash were also offered for unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, but Park said he hopes there is a better turnout today. “We’re trying to bring back the Irish food since we’re the only Irish bar in Carbondale,� Park said. “We have big shoes to fill.�
Layoffs, furloughs, budget perturb Faculty Senate RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian
10 percent cut proposals due today for all colleges
Despite the sun shining through the windows, it was a gloomy atmosphere inside the Student Center Tuesday as members of the Faculty Senate discussed the state of the budget and what it meant to their jobs. Philip Howze, president of the Faculty Senate, said he went into the
meeting wanting to understand from Chancellor Sam Goldman how the budget would affect him and his peers. “What I want to know is how bad this cut is going to be and how bad is it going to affect SIUC — this university,� he said. “Tell us our problems, and don’t keep everything under wraps. We’ve got to know.�
Goldman addressed the senate with news that each college had to create a proposal to present a way each college could cut 10 percent from its budget. He said each proposal would be due by the end of today’s business hours, when they would be sent to SIU President Glenn Poshard, who would send them to Illinois legislators for review.
The General Assembly asked for the school to provide the proposals as it tries to cut away the state’s $13 billion debt. The 10 percent cuts would need to be made by June 30, the end of the fiscal year. The proposals would show legislators how devastating a 10 percent cut would be to the university,
Goldman said. “We started looking around and seeing what the impact would mean, and let me tell you it would be terrible,� he said. “The amount of bodies strewed all over the place would be incredible, and the impact on the local economy would be crippling.� Please see FACULTY | 11