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  • Senate approves committee name change, hears budget update

    The Urbana-Champaign Senate held a brief meeting on Sept. 30, its first of the fall semester.

  • Senate discusses concerns with new endowed fund

    The Urbana-Champaign Senate’s first meeting of the academic year, held Oct. 1, and its annual meeting of the faculty on Sept. 24 were largely devoted to discussion of faculty members’ concerns about the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund, an endowment established in the UI Foundation. Some faculty members believe the fund will constrict academic freedom and intellectual diversity on campus, and represents an attempt to propagate a specific political and economic ideology through unprecedented control over educational activities.

  • Finnish envoy to speak at Illinois as part of European Union Day events

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Pekka Lintu, the ambassador of Finland to the United States, will share his views of the current state of the European Union during EU Day activities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 17.

  • Employees may change health plan Oct. 10-28

    University employees have one more opportunity to change their health plan.

  • Hogan outlines plan for 'strong leadership team'

    UI president Michael J. Hogan outlined administrative changes that he said will unify the university's leadership team, reduce overhead and strengthen its missions of teaching, research and clinical health care.

  • Hunter College scholar to give Provost's Lecture on Gender Equity

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Virginia Valian, a distinguished professor in the department of psychology at Hunter College, will be the speaker for the second Provost's Annual Lecture on Gender Equity.

  • Senate discusses search for new UI president, MAP funding

    The Urbana-Champaign Faculty Senate met Oct. 5 and discussed the process that will lead to the recommendation of three Urbana faculty members to serve on the search committee for selecting a new university president to succeed President B. Joseph White, who resigned effective Dec. 31.

  • UI launches fund drive to support University Library

    A campaign to raise at least $30 million in private gifts for the University Library was announced Oct. 10 during the UI Foundation’s 68th annual meeting on the Urbana-Champaign campus and during a dedication ceremony at the library to mark its 10 millionth volume.

  • UI, academy fund agree to part ways on study partnership

    The UI and the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund have mutually agreed, in principle, to discontinue the agreement reached a year ago that would provide funding for teaching and research focusing on the relationship of capitalism and government. Rather than partnering with the university, the fund will become a non-profit foundation, providing grants. "Despite the good intentions of the donors and the university, there were structural incompatibilities between the fund's operational mode and that of the university," Chancellor Richard Herman said. Fund officials decided an independent philanthropic foundation offering grants to support programs and research is "the best way to accommodate all parties," the group's advisory board said in a statement. "This academy will be an independent, off-campus corporation which will undertake its grant activities in the same fashion as the numerous other foundations which already provide support to the University of Illinois," the statement says. A committee appointed by Herman studied the agreement concluding that the fund, as set up, was not consistent with university policy. "The committee recommended a new agreement, and worked with fund officials for nearly a year to strike a deal that addressed the university's concerns," said Thomas Ulen, a law professor who chaired the committee. Those talks led to the fund's decision to offer funding through a separate foundation instead. "We wish them well," Ulen said. "It was a good faith effort on both sides and there were never any hard feelings. I don't doubt there will be interest on this campus in the grants and some of the other activities the academy will sponsor."

  • Israeli journalist to speak on peace, other topics, during campus visit

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Yossi Klein Halevi, a prominent Israeli journalist and author active in Middle East reconciliation efforts, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in the auditorium at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana.

  • Initiative seeks to keep UI at forefront of information revolution

    Initiative seeks to keep UI at forefront of information revolution

  • American Music Month to feature Lincoln-themed concerts, exhibits

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - For the fifth consecutive year, November is American Music Month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Public forums on anthrax scheduled for next week

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Four public forums about anthrax will be held on the University of Illinois campus next week.

  • Senate on Global Campus: More information needed

    Faculty members want to see detailed academic plans and other information about the possible structure and administration of the Global Campus before the Urbana-Champaign Senate decides whether to endorse President B. Joseph White’s proposal to create the online degree program.

  • Herman calls for input on Assembly Hall renovations

    Herman calls for input on Assembly Hall renovations

  • Committees 2011-2012

    Committees 2011-2012

  • Dance Legend Photo

    Dance legend Modern dance choreographer Dianne McIntyre directs UI students rehearsing for next week's November Playhouse Dance concert series to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13-15 in the Colwell Playhouse at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. McIntyre, who has taught key figures in the dance world, is known for her collaborations with jazz greats and for her choreography for stage and screen. Included in her body of work is choreography for Oprah Winfrey's film adaptation of Toni Morrison's "Beloved." McIntyre is in residence at the dance department as part of "Conversations in Black on Brown," a program organized by dance professor Cynthia Oliver to coincide with the yearlong Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration. In addition to working with UI students and performing in next week's concert, McIntyre will give a free master class in contemporary dance at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club in Champaign.

  • Senate discusses campus communications strategy

    At the Nov. 3 meeting of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, concerns were expressed about the campus’s communications strategies.

  • Presidential visit

  • in site: New parenting Web site includes video

    A new UI Web site uses video clip interviews to let parents of infants, toddlers and preschoolers see and hear how other parents cope with the challenges of raising young children. In addition to the video clips, the Parent-to-Parent Web site features a message board, links to recommended resources, and advice from experts.

  • U. of I. considers taking on some pension costs from state

    The university's budget won't be granted relief anytime soon and will continue to suffer in the shadow of the state government's financial crisis, said Christophe Pierre, the vice president for academic affairs.

  • Property crimes among increases in university crime report

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Property crimes, robberies and criminal sexual assaults all increased in the University of Illinois reporting district during the reporting period from Sept. 1, 2001, to Aug. 31, 2002, according to statistics released this week by the University of Illinois Division of Public Safety.

  • UI to break ground Monday on its new technology incubator

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The University of Illinois will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Monday (Nov. 19) for its new technology incubator, a facility that will give faculty and students the opportunity to explore commercialization options for their research.

  • Chancellor: Panel should develop new agreement

    By Sharita Forrest, Assistant Editor 217-244-1072; slforres@illinois.edu

  • Senate approves final 'response' to proposed reorganization

    The Urbana-Champaign Senate on Nov. 8 took its final action related to changes to the university administration and to key university governing documents proposed by the UI Board of Trustees.

  • Trustees approve 8 percent tuition increase, postpone Chief vote

    Current UI students who are Illinois residents will see their tuition increase by $223 per semester at Urbana, by $196 per semester at Chicago and by $138 per semester at Springfield next year, according to proposals passed by the UI Board of Trustees Nov. 13.

  • Achievements

    A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

  • Forum on affect of heightened national security on higher education Dec. 4

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - How heightened national security has affected higher education will be the topic of a forum beginning at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 (Wednesday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Planning for a 'Top 10' community topic of conference

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Urban sprawl, water quality and green spaces are among the topics that will be examined at an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Illinois department of urban and regional planning.

  • UI Committees 2008-09

    UI Committees 2008-09

  • Achievements

    A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members.

  • University files written argument with Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois today filed its written argument with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board in Chicago regarding the issue of graduate assistant unionization at the Urbana campus.

  • Public hearing to discuss proposed classification changes

    The Council of Academic Professionals is urging campus leaders to speak against new rules being considered by the State Universities Civil Service System that would limit the U. of I.'s ability to classify its employees.

  • Senate: Committee to further evaluate campus climate and the Chief

    The Committee on the Educational Effect of Chief Illiniwek has outlined a proposed plan for conducting an empirical study of how the UI’s athletic symbol affects the educational climate on campus, O. Vernon Burton, chair of the Senate Executive Committee, told the Urbana-Champaign Senate at its meeting Dec. 5.

  • Senate approves first-round revisions of university statutes

    Champaign Senate, though they added a caveat to allow future discussion of some of the more complicated or interlinked passages.

  • Tuskegee Airmen, former New Orleans mayor to take part in MLK events

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Members of the World War II fighter pilots who became known as The Tuskegee Airmen, and Marc Morial, a former mayor of New Orleans, are scheduled to be on the University of Illinois campus this month to take part in this year's commemoration of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 13-26.

  • Nations on travel-warning list may be open again to study-abroad students

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Beginning this summer, students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign may be able to study abroad in countries with active travel warnings issued by the U.S. Department of State.

  • Assaults decline, robberies increase in U. of I. reporting district

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Aggravated assaults and batteries and criminal sexual assaults decreased while robberies and other sex offenses increased slightly in the University of Illinois reporting district during the Sept. 1, 2003 - Dec. 31, 2003, reporting period, according to statistics released this week by the University of Illinois Division of Public Safety.

  • Immigration, environment and civil rights among lecture topics at U. of I.

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Two hot topics, immigration and global warming, will get early attention this spring among a series of 14 talks and one symposium sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Trustees discuss financing of capital projects

    The UI is examining its financial status to see how much money it can borrow during the next few years for several high-priority capital projects, according to information presented at the UI Board of Trustees meeting Jan. 19 in Chicago.

  • University leadership structure discussed at SEC meeting

    Champaign Senate Executive Committee's Jan. 31 meeting with UI President Michael Hogan, members took the opportunity to ask questions concerning changes in the university's leadership structure.

  • Reported crime declined in most categories on campus last year

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Reported crime declined in most categories on the University of Illinois campus during 2000, statistics released this week indicate.

  • Scholars to meet at Illinois to discuss criminal trafficking and slavery

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Scholars from throughout the United States will assemble at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Feb. 23-25 to address this year's Joint Area Centers Symposium on "Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Regional and Global Migration."

  • U-C Senate: Economic support a priority in 2005

    Forging a new compact with state legislators, Illinois corporations and other constituents to garner greater economic support for the university will be a priority in 2005, according to plans articulated by the university’s new president, Joe White, interim chancellor Richard Herman told the members of the Urbana-Champaign Senate at their meeting Feb. 14. According to the compact, which will be articulated at the university level over the next six months, the three UI campuses “are really three universities” with distinct identities and should have “the opportunity to move forward within (their) own spheres,” Herman said.

  • Senate chair responds to administrative changes

    In January, UI President Michael J. Hogan shared with members of the Senate Executive Committee his vision of how the new Urbana chancellor will fit into the future administrative hierarchy.

  • UC-Berkeley chancellor up next in speaker series

    If anyone is capable of understanding the challenges confronting the U. of I., it's Robert Birgeneau, the chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley.

  • Global Campus Task Force offers recommendations, cites concerns

    Global Campus Task Force offers recommendations, cites concerns

  • Herman reviews strategic plan at senate meeting

    At the Feb. 20 meeting of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, Chancellor Richard Herman gave an overview of the strategic plan for the Urbana campus, which he said was “not just a roadmap to pre-eminence but to establishing a much greater role for us throughout the world,” especially in China, India and Singapore as well as Europe.

  • Campus, cities prepare for 'Unofficial' event

    University police will focus on protecting students, faculty and staff members, and university property.

  • Steering group formed to take next steps in resource summit

    As part of President B. Joseph White's resources summit initiative, he has appointed a systemwide steering group and charged it to construct a long-term revenue and expenditure plan that "delivers the most resources possible to the academic front lines."