Yesterday’s Board of Trustees meeting was notable for a number of reasons, including the resignation of president Jack Thomas. Lost in that story was the fact that the board passed a deficit budget for 2019-2020, and the fact that enrollment is not stabilizing as we had been led to believe, but in f...

I call BS. I'd be willing to bet that this reporter lives on the east coast, has never been to Macomb, and researched his story mostly on the internet along with a few phone calls. He's obviously trying to play up the racism angle for a nationwide audience. It's interesting that Thomas served three...

Here is the entire article: As a Town’s Fortunes Fall, Blame Shifts to Its University’s Beleaguered President By Jack Stripling JUNE 10, 2019 Western Illinois University’s Board of Trustees is slated to vote this week on Jack Thomas’s contract as president, bringing culmination to a novel leadership...

The top story on the Chronicle of Higher Education website today is about the WIU/Jack Thomas situation.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/As-a- ... story_hp_3

I'm a number junkie and maybe you all can help me out Brad served as Director of Development and Planned Giving at WIU from July, 2009 until his promotion to Vice President for Advancement and Public Services in July, 2010. See here: http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=8177 WIU’s end...

Former Trustee Lyneir Cole (who served illegally on the BOT for two years) is complaining about a "plot" by the BOT to remove President Thomas. Let’s be clear. The President serves under the Board of Trustees. The BOT is tasked (among other things) with hiring and firing the President. The...

Timothy L. Killeen: Illinois needs to invest in higher education Presidents from all public universities in Illinois are requesting additional funding from the state to reverse declining enrollment. But, how do Illinois current expenditures compare with other states? According to data from www.coll...

New BOT is meeting now. Greg Aguilar is the new board chair.

I'm a little surprised that the board can meet before they have been approved by the Illinois Senate.

Bill Thompson and the UPI have posted a petition on the far left website moveon.org urging Governor Pritzker to increase funding to WIU. As usual, they are ignoring reality and only thinking of themselves. How is it possible to decrease enrollment by more than 6,000 students and NOT decrease the num...

Tere, I'm seeing this differently than you.

Total enrollment, Fall 2018: 8,502
Total enrollment, Spring 2019: 7,893
Decrease of 7.16%

This is not an unreasonable decline Fall to Spring vs other years.