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Eastern’s Council on Academic Affairs met Thursday for their weekly meeting to discuss and approve new courses. The Council approved English 3902, a second language acquisition and the teaching of English. This course is primarily for students who plan to teach English in their future career.  Council member Marita Gronnvoll said, “For example, you graduate...

A new, strike-ending contract for Eastern Illinois Universitys faculty and academic support union is set for a vote of the universitys board of trustees, following its formal approval by union

The tentative contract agreement will next go before the EIU Board of Trustees for a vote.

Members of the Eastern Illinois University union came to a tentative agreement with the university administrators Thursday, while unions at Chicago State University and Governors State University remain on strike. Unions at the three Illinois public universities went on strike in early April after contract negotiations with their respective administrations fell through, primarily over increasing...

Faculty and staff will return to work at 8 a.m. Friday.

A tentative agreement was reached Thursday after almost a year of bargaining. Strikes continue at Chicago State and Governors State.

The union is expected to hold a ratification vote next week on the proposed contract, though a date had not been set.

EIU-UPI and Eastern’s administrative team did not reach a contract deal after administration did not respond to the union’s last contract proposal made at 11 a.m. and the teams agreed no more progress could be made around 5:30 p.m. It is strike day two, and Eastern will continue to have faculty within Eastern’s chapter of...

Governor’s State is the third state university to go on strike this month, following Chicago State and Eastern Illinois.

Negotiations to end a strike by Eastern Illinois University faculty and support staff were ongoing late Friday.