This is a message board is in no way officially tied to the Western Illinois University. People can comment (I believe it's in the bill of rights). Anyway I digress. Just one opinion Bruce Rauner is a piece of garbage. Like a privileged, influenced affluent, never had to put in manual work day in h...

Where are we at with the AD search? We really need to name a new one soon. Not that the Interim AD isn't doing OK, but need that Leadership right now to move things forward I haven't heard anything yet and I don't see anything listed on the employment pages for WIU. Might be posted elsewhere, altho...

Men's Golf has a fall season. No coaching staff is listed on the Golf website. Lia and Holly are covering it for now. The guys love Lia, but admin claims to want a full men's coach. One asst and one grad asst would be perfect and cost much less than a men's head coach, plus players on both teams wo...

Um????? https://qctimes.com/news/gov-bruce-rauner-university-of-illinois-will-add-quad-cities/article_3c682d6d-f66f-540c-b625-39d693cd8f2d.html#5 Last ditch effort to scrounge a few more voters from some of the metro areas. I don't see these likely to happen, at least, not as an independent school ...

We've been doing such a great job with strategic planning for our future :roll: someone seems to have gotten a promotion out of it. In an article about upcoming Founder's Day celebration, it appears Joe Rives is now "Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Planning ." Of course, after Ka...

Nowhere in the Tri-State's mission statement does it support that of Western's own mission statement. And as can be seen by the success and excitement of Western's own TV, radio, and newspaper, student's get plenty of opportunity and truly excel when they enter the workforce. http://www.wiu.edu/news...

Winners and Losers As Illinois Universities Report Fall Enrollment Also, a chart that shows enrollment increases/decreases as well as new freshmen increases/decreases: https://infogram.com/public-university-enrollment-fall-2018-1h7j4dn0n9wd6nr?live Sad, very sad. Yet, still no leadership to underst...

Enrollment at UIUC, UIC, and EIU increases while other state schools struggle to stop declines. From the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-fall-enrollment-2018-20180912-story.html#nt=oft02a-1li3 VP Student Services Ron Williams says, "Western’s immediate goal is to stabiliz...

Noticed this come through today: https://macombnewsnow.com/macomb-news/379299 It's very confusing the way it's written though. Do we get $57M or $112k, or something else? I don't really know what's going on with that. Anyone else have any ideas? I read it we get about 1/2 of what we need. We get $5...

Unfortunately, I don't think we meet the reqs to host the championship game http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/2018-19DIIMFB_FinalsBidInfo_20180904.pdf I don't know, I think we could probably make most of the requirements work. I'm pretty sure the lack of hotel accommodations and no airport pr...