Faculty Senate members will get their chance to weigh in on the proposal for funding Recognized Student Organizations at today’s meeting.

Cole Rogers, student vice president for student affairs, will speak to the senate to share the research gathered by student senate on the possibility of funding RSOs.

“Faculty compose the majority of the advisers (for RSOs) here on campus,” Rogers said. And we thought we would go present them our findings and get a little feedback on what they would like to see.”

The student senate’s plan would fund RSOs through a student fee, Rogers said. He is not releasing any figures as to how much the fees might be at this time.

The final decision to fund RSOs would have to go through Dan Nadler, vice president for student affairs, and the Board of Trustees.

Rogers said he could not put a final timeline on the plan, but student senate plans to compile a final recommendation after receiving final input from the faculty and students.

“We’ll see what (faculty senate) thinks about it, and see if there’s anything in the presentation that they would like geared toward their interests,” Rogers said.

John Stimac, recorder for Faculty Senate, also expects the faculty senate to encourage its members to attend the open question sessions with the presidential candidates this week.

“We’re trying to encourage all faculty and staff to come out, to listen to the various candidates,” Stimac said.

The presidential search activities this week has kept the meeting agenda fairly short, Stimac said.

“The agenda doesn’t look that hard at all,” he said. A presentation by the office of facilities planning and management was postponed until April because of a conflict with the presidential visits.

Stimac also expects the senate to announce the faculty retirement reception at the meeting. The reception will be 2:30 p.m. April 3 in the Tarble Arts Center. He expects plans for a faculty retirement wall to be constructed in Booth Library to be announced at the reception.

The Faculty Senate meeting will be today at 2 p.m. in the Booth Library Conference Room.