I had the good fortune to receive an extensive tour of the Goldfarb center yesterday by the new director of the facility, Ann Lefter. Not only is this building impressive in scale and purpose, Ann is impressive as well. She is well versed with every nook, cranny, paint color and timeline in this ...

This is well done.
 

We found out that two WIU employees passed away yesterday.

Billy Clow was the Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication and a professor of theatre. He also served as Interim Provost for a few years. He was a huge supporter of the arts at WIU and in Macomb, with three kids (two in HS and ...

Any idea where Clare Thompson is heading to after such a short tenure in Macomb?
Just curious.

Dumb question but you know I have more than my fair share. I cant seem to find out much about the namesakes of those old residence halls. George Seal comes to mind for Seal Hall but I might be wrong. What about all the others like Bennett, Hursh, Tanner, Wetzel, Henninger, ...

I assume they would ...

Official WIU press release, Oct. 7, 2022

Center for Performing Arts Construction Funding Released, Construction Underway

Paragraph 8: "To make up for the increased construction costs, which recently came in at $110 million, the CDB, working with Western, has agreed to leverage some funding from ...

This may not be a factor but still bothers me ... to get the Center for Performing Arts project going, WIU had to accept a smaller facility at higher cost covered by using some funding from other requested/proposed projects. I asked then and still ask ... how much was taken from what projects ...

I noticed a new interim Provost/V.P. was announced on November 2nd.
What happened with V.P. Zoghi? I have not found any news of a resignation or being asked to leave.
Just curious.