The number of administrators, those who oversee large portions of the campus’ activities, that the university must replace has grown even larger.

Herb Lasky, director of the university’s honors college, will retire this summer, the Faculty Senate learned on Tuesday. In addition, Blair Lord, provost and vice president for academic affairs, updated the senate on the replacement process of two other administrative positions, director of minority affairs and director of enrollment management.

Lasky’s departure only adds to the number of administrative openings the university must fill because of retirement, resignation or death. A 38-year employee, Lasky started the university’s program in 1982 with 56 students and now the program has 654 students.

In the last seven months, six administrators have left their positions. While interim replacements have safely been found for some of the vacancies, others have left some departments scrambling.

An advertisement for interim replacement of the late Johnetta Jones, director of minority affairs, resulted in nine applicants. An interim find, Lord says, will hopefully be found for the spring semester for continuity reasons as the burden of the position has fallen on the department’s project directors.

A nationwide search will name a permanent candidate, Lord hopes, for the next academic calendar year this spring.

“We want a committee that is broadly representative on all dimensions,” Lord said. “The committee needs to be put together with care.”

Lord also told the senate a search committee for the dean of admissions opening has also been formed. Dale Wolf currently works in the position, but he has announced his retirement plans for this summer.

While the university will replace vacated positions, the senate unanimously voted to support the creation of a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Coles County.

The resolution, written by senators Dave Carwell and John Henry Pommier, highlighted the senate’s hopes for the organization of “fostering greater harmony between the university and community.”

There is a university chapter here, and the movement for a Coles County chapter began after an editorial column written by Lee Graham ran in The Daily Eastern News earlier this semester.

Also, Matthew Monippallil, an accountancy and finance professor, said his colleagues are concerned with nighttime on-campus parking security.

The senate passed a resolution 8 to 4, with two abstentions, to ask the Parking Advisory Committee to consider extending faculty and staff-only hours in the parking lot between Coleman Hall and Weller residence hall four hours.

The current permit-only hours are from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. The new changes will extend the faculty and staff exclusiveness until 9 p.m.

The discrepancy results from a lack of parking spots in the West Garfield parking lot, between Weller residence hall and Coleman Hall, used by students resulting in a long walk, usually, to the lot adjacent to the Wesley Foundation church on Fourth Street.

Monippallil says the area isn’t well lit therefore, he suggested two rows with 40 to 45 additional spots, be locked up for the additional hours.

Technology professor Mori Toosi estimated the Garfield lot had 8 to 10 rows.

The senate passed another motion regarding on-campus parking in the same area that asks the parking committee to look at the request and response letters of senate Chair David Carpenter and Jeff Cooley, vice president for business affairs.

Previously, the senate wondered why the campus road running east and west connecting Fourth and Seventh streets dividing the south portion of the campus from the north section near Booth Library was blocked.

The road, which the senate believes could open up more parking, is reserved for construction equipment used on the campus network and Tarble Arts Center renovations, Cooley wrote to Carpenter.

The road has been inactive for five or six years, biology professor Bud Fischer said, and the Campus Master Plan, the university’s blue prints to remodeling the campus, calls for the street to be inactive.

During the summers, Fischer said, the road could be used for shops.

The senators conceded the improbability of the road being re-opened for further usage, but took solace in that the blockage means the campus is being improved.

“I’ll take any ugly as long as we’re building something,” Fischer said.