The Faculty Senate will be given a little insight to the process behind the Clean Energy Research and Education center at the meeting today.

The group will meet at 2 p.m. in the Booth Library Conference room

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Peter Ping Liu, a technology professor and a coordinator of graduate studies, and Bob Chestnut, the director of research and sponsored programs, will be speaking about the center.?

Liu will explain the creation process for the center as well as who it will benefit. ?

The purpose is to inform the campus and to welcome more participation from faculty, staff and students to be engaged in renewable, clean energy research and education, Liu said.??

Strategic Planning will also be a topic at today’s meeting. Vicki Woodard, the coordinator of public information and university communications, and Karen Drage, from the School of Technology, will be speaking to the senate.??

John Pommier, Woodard, and Drage serve on a team of strategic planning committee members who will be facilitating the data gathering and engagement process of the Faculty Senate.?

The senate will be asked five questions and the answers will be added to other data the committee has gathered, Drage said.?

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812

or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu