The Council on Instruction will discuss today reduction of undergraduate enrollment size and university bylaws.

COI member Robert Wheeler said, “Many faculty members are interested in lowering the undergraduate enrollment. We will be discussing the possibility of creating a system in which the enrollment will be gradually reduced in size over the next five years.”

Director of Institutional Research Nick Noe will answer questions regarding enrollment statistics. The research department performs investigation on enrollment forecasts, salary studies, and cost studies.

COI co-chairwoman Dorathea Beard said, “The most discussion will be on the university bylaws revisions and the reduction of enrollment. The COI committee that was appointed to revise the proposed bylaws will be presenting the language they developed for a new draft.

“A meeting between the COI and the Presidential Task Force on Constitutional Revision is set for next week, and we are trying to prepare the finished revised bylaws in time to present them to the Task Force,” she said.

COI member Herbert Rubin said the reason faculty members believe there is a need for a reduction in undergraduate enrollment is because the colleges cannot afford to provide so many students with quality educations.

Beard said the possible appointment of a student representative to the Committee for Improvement of Undergraduate Education by the Student Association would make the committee more representative of NIU.

Also discussed as new business at the COI meeting will be the approval of College of Education, College of Professional Studies, and College of Engineering and Engineering Technology curriculum meetings.