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Monday, April 2, 2018 - Vol. 118 Issue 72
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No confidence vote passed by faculty 37 percent of faculty abstain in referendum By Nicholas Ebelhack editor-in-chief
The Western Illinois University Faculty Senate revealed the results of referendum of no confidence in the school’s administration, with 42 percent of voters (213 votes cast) claiming “no confidence.” Twenty-one percent of voters (109 votes cast) voted “confidence” in Western’s administration. The vote stems from a petition asking for a vote of confidence, in which 24 percent of faculty members asked for a referendum. While not a majority of all votes able to be cast, as 37 percent of votes (181 votes) were not mailed in, the majority of voting faculty who voted “no confidence” elicited a response from Board of Trustees Chair Cathy Early on Friday. “We value our faculty, and we certainly respect the differing points of view,” reads
By William Turkington courier staff
The Thomas E. Helm Undergraduate Research Day will be held April 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the University Union. The Undergraduate Research Day provides students with a forum to conduct undergraduate research, scholarship or creative activity. Students from all academic disciplines are welcomed and encouraged to submit their faculty mentored research, scholarship, or creative activity. Submissions can be either completed or in-
progress and the deadline for submissions is April 6. Research, scholarship, or creative activity can be presented either as a poster presentation or a podium or performance presentation. The poster method uses a poster as the primary means of showcasing their project. Presenters are encouraged to have an abstract, an introduction, a discussion of methodology, a conclusion statement, and an indication of the project’s actual or potential contribution to knowledge, understanding,
or appreciation. The podium or performance sessions are best utilized for oral or creative presentation, and may be aided by audio/ visual expressions like PowerPoints. Each podium session is no more than 10 minutes and each performance presentation is no more than 20 minutes. All presentations will be delivered in a group setting. The presentations should be limited to three or less presenters per presentation. Question and answer sessions will be held at the end of
each session. Last year ’s performance presentation winners were Nathalie Hernandez, Luciana Hontila, Vlad Hontila, and Giorgi Khatalev, who performed “The American Quartet” from the school of music. Their faculty sponsor was Istvan Szabo. Hannah Knox, Janelle Hohenberry and Briana Michael’s work on “Prevalence of Microorganism Growth on Name Badges of Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Workers” from the school of Nurs-
Early’s statement. “When the results of the vote are formally brought forward to the Board of Trustees at our next meeting, we will discuss further.” Early further said that the Board of Trustees remains in support of Western’s administration despite the results of the vote. “It is the opinion of the WIU Board of Trustees that the University administration has maintained the University's viability, as they were asked to do, during these unprecedented times of financial crisis and has continued to move the University forward,” Early said. In her statement, Early states that because of the abstaining voters, the motion did not pass when considering the total number of eligible voters, 503.
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ing won the poster presentation. Faculty members Julie Baylor and Patricia Eathington assisted them. Lastly, Allison Hartman’s “Examination of Pool Fingers from the Blauhohle Cave System, Germany,” courtesy of the Department of Geology, bagged first place among podium presentations. Professor Leslie Melim helped supervise the project. Questions can be submitted to Alex Geisler of the Centennial Honors College at angeisler@wiu.edu or go to wiu. edu to make a submission.