Southern Illinois University

This article is about the university system. For the flagship campus, see Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Southern Illinois University
TypeSystem of public universities
Established1869 (1869)
Endowment$548.1 million (2020)[1]
PresidentDaniel F. Mahony
Location
Carbondale, Edwardsville, Springfield
,
Illinois
,
United States
Websitesiusystem.edu
Southern Illinois University Locations.

Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois. Its headquarters is in Carbondale, Illinois.

Board of trustees

The university is governed by the nine member SIU Board of Trustees. Seven members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate. Two members are elected by the student bodies of the Carbondale and Edwardsville campuses.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Main article: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
See also: Southern Illinois Salukis

Founded in Carbondale in 1869 as Southern Illinois Normal College, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC, usually referred to as SIU) is the flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system and is the third oldest of Illinois's twelve state universities.

SIUC includes eight colleges: the College of Agriculture, The College of Science, the College of Arts and Media, the College of Business and Analytics, the College of Engineering, the College of Health and Human Sciences, the College of Social Sciences, and the College of Humanities. It also includes four schools: the Graduate School, the School of Education, the School of Law in Carbondale, and the School of Medicine in Carbondale and Springfield (see below).

The university offers 120 undergraduate majors, 80 master's degrees, 40 doctoral degrees, and professional degrees in law and medicine. Morris Library serves as the research hub on campus. It contains five million volumes and 63,000 periodical subscriptions, numbers which place it in the top 50 of U.S research libraries.

In the fall of 2021, SIUC enrolled 18,667 students – 12,647 undergraduates, 5,568 graduate students, and 551 professional doctoral students.[2] It has over 250,000 alumni.[3]

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Main article: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
See also: SIU Edwardsville Cougars

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is the St. Louis Metro East campus of the SIU system. The main campus in Edwardsville is situated on 2,660 acres (1,080 ha) of scenic woodland and lakes with bicycle and walking paths throughout. SIUE also operates the School of Dental Medicine campus in Alton, the East St. Louis Center, the School of Nursing's satellite campus in Springfield, and the School of Nursing's program on the SIU Carbondale campus. Begun as residential centers of SIUC in 1957, SIUE celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. Once known as a "commuter school", SIUE has in recent years transformed itself into a residential university.

SIUE includes the College of Arts and Sciences and seven schools, including the Graduate School and the School of Pharmacy on the Edwardsville campus and the School of Dental Medicine in Alton.

The SIUE center in East St. Louis provides clinical and practicum experiences for SIUE students and a broad range of assistance to the community in the arts, education, health, and social services.

Considered to be a "Doctoral/Professional University", SIUE offers Baccalaureate, Post-Baccalaureate, Masters, and Doctoral degrees in 48 undergraduate programs and 65 graduate and professional practice programs. In addition, students may enroll in 62 undergraduate minors.[4]

In the fall of 2021, SIUE had 13,010 students – 9,967 undergraduates and 3,043 graduate students including 312 professional doctoral students, and 118,029 alumni.[5]

Satellite schools and facilities

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Main article: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU-SOM) is a part of SIUC that operates its first-year program in Carbondale and the final three years in Springfield.[6]

Simmons Cancer Institute

The Simmons Cancer Institute is a medical education, biomedical research, patient care, and community service facility in Springfield operated by the SIU-SOM.[7]

SIU Healthcare Clinics

The SIU-SOM operates five satellite family medicine clinics for residential training of family physicians in Carbondale, Decatur,[8] Quincy,[9] and Springfield.

Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine

Main article: Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine

The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU-SDM or SDM) is a part of SIUE and is located in Alton on the campus of the former Shurtleff College. The school opened in 1972 and enrolls about 200 dental students. The school also operates the East St. Louis Dental Clinic at SIUE's East St. Louis Center.[10]

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing

Main article: SIUE School of Nursing

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing not only has academic programs on the Edwardsville campus, but it operates a cooperative program with SIUC in Carbondale, and it has a small campus in Springfield which offers graduate level courses nearby the SIU School of Medicine. The school also operates the Community Nursing Services office at SIUE's East St. Louis Center.[11]

Southern Illinois University School of Aviation

SIU Carbondale operates aviation programs at the Transportation Education Center, located at the Southern Illinois Airport, about 15 minutes from the main campus. They have a flight school, and an aviation mechanic school. Students learn to fly, read instruments, and fix aircraft. There are several donated planes that they use to work on, but do not fly. Private citizens, airlines, and the navy have donated planes to SIU Carbondale.

East St. Louis Center

The SIUE East St. Louis Center offers services and training to more than 6,000 people annually. Programs include the SIUE East St. Louis Charter High School, a Head Start program, a Latchkey Program providing families with after-school care for children ages 6 to 12, the SIUE East St. Louis Center Performing Arts Program, the Community Nursing Services office of the SIUE School of Nursing, the East St. Louis Dental Clinic of the SIUE School of Dental Medicine, an eye care clinic, and the adjacent East St. Louis Higher Education Campus which houses the East St. Louis Community College Center.[12]

University Center of Lake County

SIUC and SIUE are among the twenty colleges and universities offering classes for degree completion and continuing education through the University Center of Lake County in Grayslake and Waukegan.[13]

Center for Workforce Development

The SIUC Center for Workforce Development in Springfield is operated by the Organizational Learning, Innovation and Development Department (former Workforce Education and Development) of the School of Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Programs include Illinois workNet, providing adults and youth with disabilities the resources to help them reach educational and employment goals; the Website Development Project, working with the Illinois Department of Employment Security to redesign the agency's website to provide improved access to the department's services by individuals, businesses, and the departmental staff; Illinois Pathways, a STEM education improvement program supported by six other State of Illinois agencies; and the SIUC Workforce Education and Development program's Off Campus Undergraduate Program on the campus of Lincoln Land Community College, which provides a one-year degree completion program for students who have already received an Associate Arts or Associate of Science degrees from Illinois community colleges.[14]

Presidents and chancellors of SIU

Presidents of Southern Illinois University system

The following persons have served as president of SIU system:[15][16]

No. President SIU System Term start Term end Ref.
1 Delyte Morris 1948 1970
2 Kenneth Shaw September 15, 1979 1986 [17]
3 Lawrence Pettit 1986 1991
4 James Brown 1992 1995
5 Ted Sanders 1995 January 31, 2000 [18]
interim Frank E. Horton February 1, 2000 September 30, 2000 [19]
6 James E Walker October 1, 2000 December 31, 2005 [20]
7 Glenn Poshard January 1, 2006 April 30, 2014[a] [21][22]
8 Randy Dunn May 1, 2014 July 30, 2018 [23][24]
interim J. Kevin Dorsey July 17, 2018 February 28, 2019 [24]
9 Daniel F. Mahony March 1, 2020 present [25]

Table notes:

  1. ^ Although Poshard original announced that we would retire on June 30, Poshard agreed to served in an advisory role to Dunn when Dunn was told to leave his previous job earlier than expected and the SIU trustees allowed Dunn to start a month early.

Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The following persons have served as chancellor of the Carbondale campus:[26]

No. SIUC Chancellors Term start Term end Ref.
Presidents of Southern Illinois Normal University (1869–1947)
1 Robert Allyn July 1, 1874 1892 [27]
2 John Hull 1892 1893[a] [28]
3 Harvey W. Everest 1893 1897 [29]
4 Daniel B. Parkinson 1897 1913 [30]
5 Henry W. Shryock 1913 April 13, 1935[b] [31]
6 Roscoe Pullium 1935 March 27, 1944[b] [32]
7 Chester F. Lay 1945 1948 [33]
Presidents of Southern Illinois University (1947–1995)
8 Delyte W. Morris 1948 1970 [34]
9 Robert G. Layer 1971 1972 [35]
10 David R. Derge 1972 1974 [36]
interim Hiram H. Lesar 1974 1974 [37]
11 Warren W. Brandt December 1974 1979[c] [38]
interim Hiram H. Lesar 1979 1980 [37]
12 Albert Somit August 15, 1980 1987 [39]
interim John C. Guyon 1987 1987
13 1987 August 15, 1996 [40]
Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1995–present)
14 Don Beggs August 16, 1996 June 30, 1998 [41][42]
15 Jo Ann E. Argersinger July 1, 1998 June 5, 1999[d] [43][44][45]
interim John S. Jackson June 5, 1999 June 30, 2001 [46][45]
16 Walter V. Wendler July 1, 2001 November 14, 2006 [47]
interim John M. Dunn November 15, 2006 June 30, 2007 [48]
17 Fernando Treviño July 1, 2007 March 18, 2008[e] [49][50]
acting Don Rice March 18, 2008 April 11, 2008 [50]
interim Samuel Goldman April 11, 2008 May 31, 2010 [51][52]
19 Rita Cheng June 1, 2010 July 7, 2014[f] [53]
acting Paul D. Sarvela July 8, 2014 July 24, 2014
interim July 24, 2014 November 9, 2014[b] [54]
interim William Bradley Colwell October 1, 2015 June 30, 2017 [55]
20 Carlo Montemagno August 15, 2017 October 11, 2018[b] [56][57][58]
acting J. Kevin Dorsey October 11, 2018 December 31, 2018 [59]
interim John M. Dunn January 1, 2019 June 30, 2020 [59]
21 Austin A. Lane July 1, 2020 present [60]

Table notes:

  1. ^ Resigned to lead the State Normal School in River Falls, Wisconsin.
  2. ^ a b c d Died in office
  3. ^ Resigned for job with the University of Maryland system.
  4. ^ Fired by Board of Trustees.
  5. ^ Placed on administrative leave.
  6. ^ Resigned to lead Northern Arizona University.

Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The following persons have served as chancellor of the Edwardsville campus:[61][62]

No. SIUE Chancellors Term start Term end Ref.
Vice President for the Southwest Illinois Campus (1955–1960)
– Harold W. See September 1, 1955 November 29, 1960 [63]
Vice President for Operations (1961–1964)
1 Clarence W. Stephens August 11, 1961 1964 [64]
Presidents of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1971–1995)
2 John S. Rendleman July 1, 1968 March 4, 1976[a] [65]
acting Andrew J. Kochman March 11, 1976 October 14, 1976 [66]
acting Ralph W. Ruffner October 14, 1976 January 16, 1977 [67]
3 Kenneth Shaw January 17, 1977 September 14, 1979[b] [68]
interim Earl Lazerson September 15, 1979 July 10, 1980
4 July 10, 1980 January 10, 1994 [69]
Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1995–present)
5 Nancy Belck January 11, 1994 August 31, 1997[c] [70]
6 David Werner September 1, 1997 June 30, 2004 [71]
7 Vaughn Vandegrift July 1, 2004 June 30, 2012 [72]
8 Julie A. Furst-Bowe July 1, 2012 August 14, 2015[d] [73][74][75]
interim Stephen Hansen August 15, 2015 July 31, 2016 [76][77]
9 Randy Pembrook August 1, 2016 February 28, 2022 [78][79][80]
10 James T. Minor March 1, 2022 present [81]

Table notes:

  1. ^ Died in office
  2. ^ Resigned to become SIU system president.
  3. ^ Resigned to lead the University of Nebraska Omaha.
  4. ^ Resigned for a position at Chippewa Valley Technical College.

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