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Michael Baird/Staff Reporter
Issue date: 6/16/09 Section: News
The Council on University Planning and Budgeting (CUPB) has recently started a new initiative of Cost Containment.
The program hopes to help lessen the costs associated with running and maintaining Eastern. This program also seeks to improve the functionality of the school through the people that know their areas the best.
CUPB is under the auspices of the Office of the Eastern President William L. Perry.
The program is designed to set up a committee of people representing each of the different facets of Academia at Eastern.
Each of the major departments of the school has at least one or more representatives on the council.
Jocelyn Tipton, associate professor of Booth Library, has enjoyed working on CUPB. Tipton found it enjoyable to "work with faculty members from different departments" that she would not normally work with under normal circumstances. Tipton cited one of the major benefits is its "grass-roots" appeal.
Departments are asked to look within their own area and to find spots that can have costs reduced. Students need not fret over a loss of services. Cost reduction should not affect any services offered at Eastern.
Ideas do not have to be ground breaking. They can be as simple as switching the type of light bulb used within their departments offices. Other cost cutting ideas have included distributing the catalog electronically, eliminating printing costs and other energy cutting ideas.
This program is being designed like its predecessor program, Parking.
Ideas will be gathered by smaller departments and eventually town hall style meetings will be given to discuss the viability of the proposals.
CUPB is made up of several sub-committees. Main CUPB meetings are scheduled once a month. However, CUPB will not meet if there has not been any significant change from the previous meetings to discuss. Tipton said a lot of their work depends on news that comes from Springfield.
The next meeting is scheduled for September 18 of this year.
This committee does not have direct jurisdiction nor direct power needed to enact any proposed changes. This is purely for the development of a proposal for Perry to act upon.
Michael Baird can be reached at 581-7943 or at mpbaird@eiu.edu.
The program hopes to help lessen the costs associated with running and maintaining Eastern. This program also seeks to improve the functionality of the school through the people that know their areas the best.
CUPB is under the auspices of the Office of the Eastern President William L. Perry.
The program is designed to set up a committee of people representing each of the different facets of Academia at Eastern.
Each of the major departments of the school has at least one or more representatives on the council.
Jocelyn Tipton, associate professor of Booth Library, has enjoyed working on CUPB. Tipton found it enjoyable to "work with faculty members from different departments" that she would not normally work with under normal circumstances. Tipton cited one of the major benefits is its "grass-roots" appeal.
Departments are asked to look within their own area and to find spots that can have costs reduced. Students need not fret over a loss of services. Cost reduction should not affect any services offered at Eastern.
Ideas do not have to be ground breaking. They can be as simple as switching the type of light bulb used within their departments offices. Other cost cutting ideas have included distributing the catalog electronically, eliminating printing costs and other energy cutting ideas.
This program is being designed like its predecessor program, Parking.
Ideas will be gathered by smaller departments and eventually town hall style meetings will be given to discuss the viability of the proposals.
CUPB is made up of several sub-committees. Main CUPB meetings are scheduled once a month. However, CUPB will not meet if there has not been any significant change from the previous meetings to discuss. Tipton said a lot of their work depends on news that comes from Springfield.
The next meeting is scheduled for September 18 of this year.
This committee does not have direct jurisdiction nor direct power needed to enact any proposed changes. This is purely for the development of a proposal for Perry to act upon.
Michael Baird can be reached at 581-7943 or at mpbaird@eiu.edu.
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