75-percent of faculty members at SIUC voted to delay Chancellor Carlo Montemagno’s academic reorganization plan, according to the university’s faculty union on Tuesday. The Illinois Education Association stated that due to the voting casted by SIU staff, it indicates that the majority of tenured and tenure-track faculty opposed the chancellor’s proposed overhaul. The vote went 295 to extend the deadlines for reviewing the plan, while 99 voted against the extension. There is a total of 510 tenured or tenure-track faculty on campus, with not every department electing to vote. Montemagno said that he is intending to minimize redundancies and enhance campus-wide synergy, by eliminating 42 departments and reorganize degree programs, under newly formed schools. This would also do away with department chairs at the college.