SIU Board of Trustees moves forward with allocation study, approves Buys and Balkansky as interim deans
By Brian Munoz, Staff Reporter
August 14, 2018
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The SIU Board of Trustees will be moving forward with an request for proposals on a system funding allocation study using an informal process that gives the board and the university more input.
Dunn removed as SIU President after attempt in dissolving university system
By Brian Munoz, Staff Reporter
July 13, 2018
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Randy Dunn has been removed as Southern Illinois University's president and J. Kevin Dorsey, former dean and provost of the SIU School of Medicine, has been named interim president for a one-year while the board launches a search for a new leader.
Database: 2017-2018 SIU System Salary Bank
By Staff Report
May 7, 2018
Filed under Campus, More Headlines, News, Showcase
The following salary databases have been compiled and obtained by Daily Egyptian staff through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Click on the following attachments to view/download each campus' database. Click to download 2017-2018 SIU System Salary Database with aforementioned data. ...
SIU administrators defend higher state funding allocation at senate budget hearing
By Anna Spoerre, Staff Reporter
April 25, 2018
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During a Senate budget hearing, members of SIU’s administration defended an appropriation of $198.8 million in state funds be allocated to SIU for the next fiscal year compared to $179.9 million proposed by the state.
Nurses at Student Health Center unionize in hopes for fair wages
By Kitt Fresa, Features Editor
April 19, 2018
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Seventeen nurses at the Student Health Center are forming a union with the hopes of receiving fair wages, as some nurses believe they are the lowest paid in the state.
US fires missiles at Syria in retaliation for suspected poison gas attack
By Bob Drogin and David S. Cloud
April 14, 2018
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U.S. and allied warships and warplanes in the eastern Mediterranean launched a fiery barrage of missiles at multiple military targets in Syria to punish the Russian-backed government in Damascus for its alleged use of poison gas against civilians last weekend, President Donald Trump announced.
Montemagno’s Ingenuity Lab closes, employees blame his leadership
By Anna Spoerre, Staff Writer
April 10, 2018
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EDMONTON, Alberta — Nine months after Carlo Montemagno left a position as director of Ingenuity Lab to assume the chancellorship at SIU’s Carbondale campus, some members of the Alberta community are still picking up the pieces of what they call a failed project brought to life and then abandoned by ...
Demonstrators occupy chancellor’s office for nearly 25 hours
By Kitt Fresa, Brian Munoz, and Farrah Blaydes
April 6, 2018
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Students and community members staged a sit-in after marching from the Communications Building to Anthony Hall yesterday, in protest of a proposed police academy at the university. Protests came hours after SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno released a statement that he would be tabling the decision ...
Gallery: Demonstrators stage sit in against proposed police academy
By Brian Munoz, Photography and Multimedia Editor
April 5, 2018
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About two dozen protestors marched to Anthony Hall in protest of the proposed police academy at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus.
“He died helping others just as he had lived his whole life,” father and friends of Tim Beaty reflect on his life
By Kitt Fresa, Features Editor
April 5, 2018
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Father of Tim Beaty said two years after his sons death, he has begun to feel closure and necessary justice served by the jury's verdict which found Travis Tyler guilty on March 27.
Dawg talk with Dodd: Bell not satisfied with 2017-18 basketball season
By Nathan Dodd, Sports Editor
April 4, 2018
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Tommy Bell, SIU's Director of Athletics, appears to be at the end of his rope when it comes to the current state of the men's basketball program.
From escaping Nazi-Germany to teaching at SIU: The story of Kris Juul
By Kitt Fresa and Amelia Blakely
March 29, 2018
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Kris Juul, a 94-year-old Norwegian veteran, Nazi-Germany refugee, and former SIU professor will be the first ever Allied soldier to be honored by the Honor Flight Network.
