THURSDAY January 19, 2017
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Community members to march for women’s rights
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New student government holds first meeting
er communities soon followed suit and planned marches in areas including Chicago and Champaign. “We faced an election fi lled with misogyny, and I expect this march to assert that antiwomen policies will be opposed vehemently by the American people,” said Illini Democrats President Spencer Haydary in an email. Haydary will be attending the official march in Chicago. Haydary added that an incredibly diverse range of women and people will participate in the march. This “remarkable demonstration of
BY JESSICA BURSZTYNSKY STAFF WRITER
Thousands of people plan to gather on Jan. 21 for women’s marches at local and national levels across the U.S. to defend women’s rights. Some of these marchers include members of the University and Champaign-Urbana community. The Women’s March began as an all-inclusive movement to show solidarity with women, following Trump’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. The march’s original time and location was planned for Saturday in Washington, D.C., but once popularity of the Women's March spread, oth-
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The newly created Illinois Student Government held its first meeting Wednesday at the Illini Union. During the meeting, the senators went through the entire constitution page-by-page and adopted each by-law. President Ron Lewis said the biggest changes include that he no longer presides over the meeting and there is now a speaker of the senate. Legislation is passed through a new process and Lewis will have the ability to veto laws. Additionally, Lewis said, the student government is more accountable than the student senate was.. During the meeting, Sam LeRoy, junior in Business, was elected as the first speaker of the senate and will serve by leading future meetings. MICHELLE TAM THE DAILY ILLINI
Major changes for UI system on Board of Trustees agenda Killeen to debut plans to increase campus enrollment
Board of Trustees to vote on policy changes
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BY ANGELICA LAVITO
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University president Timothy Killeen will outline plans to increase enrollment by 15 percent over the next five years, across all three campuses. Killeen hopes that this will raise the University's commitment to Illinois students and underrepresented minorities by enrolling more than 93,600 students across all campuses, with more than 80,000 students enrolled currently. Illinois residents make up about 80 percent of on- campus undergraduates on all three campuses combined. He will present the plans during Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting in Chicago. “Big numbers aside, this enrollment initiative is really all about opportunity – giving more students the opportunity for a world-class education that will transform their lives and seizing on our opportunity to serve the needs of the state by expanding the pipeline of talent that is so critical to its future,” Killeen said in a press release. Each campus has different enrollment goals, but overall, enrollment would rise by a
The Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday in Chicago. Some of the policies were reviewed in committees on Wednesday before the board votes.
international students. “I want to remind us all that we don’t know how long we can do this because as long as the state has unpredictable funding, especially for higher education, we don’t know what the future will hold,” Wilson said.
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Background checks
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The Academic The University implemented a nd St udent Affairs committee a backg rou nd a p p r o v e d check policy for some prospective proposed tuition employees Nov. 1, rates, wh ich 2015. i ncluded a In its fi rst year, freeze for new the policy cost Illinois resident the University u nderg raduate students. $456,498.51. If approved, this The average would be the third cost for UIUC was consecutive year $41 per applicant, the University has and the costs held the current varied depending rate. on which state the It would be applicant lived, BARB WILSON the longest Ja mi Pa i nter, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT consecutive assista nt vice freeze the system president for human resources, has imposed in 40 years, according to Barb Wilson, said in her presentation to executive vice president and the governance, ethics and vice president for academic personnel committee. affairs. Tuition would increase 1.8 percent for non-resident and SEE TRUSTEES | 3A
“I want to remind us all that we don’t know how long we can do this because as long as the state has unpredictable funding ... we don’t know what the future will hold.”
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University may increase contracts with minority-owned businesses BY ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITER
The Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal Thursday that would increase its goals for contracting businesses owned by minorities, women and people with disabilities. If approved, the plan would align the University’s policies to meet the state’s updates to the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Females and Persons with Disabilities Act, which aims to promote and encourage economic development of these groups. The state amended the bill to increase the percentage of total construction spending
awarded to businesses owned by minorities and women from 10 percent to 20 percent. The University’s proposal would increase guidelines from 15 to 20 percent at its Urbana and Springfield campuses, and at its Peoria and Rockford satellite campuses. Goals at the Chicago campus would increase to 30 percent for construction projects since there are more opportunities “ to i mpact u nderser ved communities,” according to a press release. Sharla Roberts, director of procurement diversity, thinks the University can meet these goals.
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“I think the goals are reasonable and attainable,” she said. “We looked at the scope of availability of minority and women-owned vendors and that the goal we set is reasonable and attainable.” The University spent $71.3 million on contracts with minority and women owned businesses throughout the 2016 fi scal year. Roberts thinks increasing goals would have a “huge” effect on economies near the campuses. She said the University also hires mainly local companies for construction projects.
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