Southern Illinois University

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

Template:Main Template:See also 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It has over 250,000 alumni.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Template:Main Template:See also Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is the St. Louis Metro East campus of the SIU system. The main campus in Edwardsville is situated on Template:Convert 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.<ref name="Fact Book">Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Satellite schools and facilities

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Template:Main 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

SIU Healthcare Clinics

The SIU-SOM operates five satellite family medicine clinics for residential training of family physicians in Carbondale, Decatur,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Quincy,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Springfield.

Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine

Template:Main 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing

Template:Main 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Presidents and chancellors of SIU

Presidents of Southern Illinois University system

The following persons have served as president of SIU system:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Template:Abbr	President SIU System	Term start	Term end	Template:Refh
1	Delyte Morris	1948	1970
2	Kenneth Shaw	September 15, 1979	1986	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
3	Lawrence Pettit	1986	1991
4	James Brown	1992	1995
5	Ted Sanders	1995	January 31, 2000	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	Frank E. Horton	February 1, 2000	September 30, 2000	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
6	James E Walker	October 1, 2000	December 31, 2005	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
7	Glenn Poshard	January 1, 2006	April 30, 2014Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
8	Randy Dunn	May 1, 2014	July 30, 2018	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="WILL-FM">Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	J. Kevin Dorsey	July 17, 2018	February 28, 2019	<ref name="WILL-FM"/>
9	Daniel F. Mahony	March 1, 2020	present	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The following persons have served as chancellor of the Carbondale campus:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Template:Abbr	SIUC Chancellors	Term start	Term end	Template:Refh
Presidents of Southern Illinois Normal University (1869–1947)
1	Robert Allyn	July 1, 1874	1892	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2	John Hull	1892	1893Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
3	Harvey W. Everest	1893	1897	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
4	Daniel B. Parkinson	1897	1913	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
5	Henry W. Shryock	1913	April 13, 1935Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
6	Roscoe Pullium	1935	March 27, 1944Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
7	Chester F. Lay	1945	1948	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Presidents of Southern Illinois University (1947–1995)
8	Delyte W. Morris	1948	1970	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
9	Robert G. Layer	1971	1972	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
10	David R. Derge	1972	1974	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	Hiram H. Lesar	1974	1974	<ref name="Lesar"/>
11	Warren W. Brandt	December 1974	1979Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	Hiram H. Lesar	1979	1980	<ref name="Lesar">Template:Cite web</ref>
12	Albert Somit	August 15, 1980	1987	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	John C. Guyon	1987	1987
13		1987	August 15, 1996	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1995–present)
14	Don Beggs	August 16, 1996	June 30, 1998	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
15	Jo Ann E. Argersinger	July 1, 1998	June 5, 1999Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Argersinger fired"/>
interim	John S. Jackson	June 5, 1999	June 30, 2001	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Argersinger fired">Template:Cite news</ref>
16	Walter V. Wendler	July 1, 2001	November 14, 2006	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	John M. Dunn	November 15, 2006	June 30, 2007	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
17	Fernando Treviño	July 1, 2007	March 18, 2008Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Treviño fired">Template:Cite web</ref>
acting	Don Rice	March 18, 2008	April 11, 2008	<ref name="Treviño fired"/>
interim	Samuel Goldman	April 11, 2008	May 31, 2010	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
19	Rita Cheng	June 1, 2010	July 7, 2014Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
acting	Paul D. Sarvela	July 8, 2014	July 24, 2014
interim		July 24, 2014	November 9, 2014Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	William Bradley Colwell	October 1, 2015	June 30, 2017	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
20	Carlo Montemagno	August 15, 2017	October 11, 2018Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
acting	J. Kevin Dorsey	October 11, 2018	December 31, 2018	<ref name="dunn"/>
interim	John M. Dunn	January 1, 2019	June 30, 2020	<ref name="dunn">Template:Cite web</ref>
21	Austin A. Lane	July 1, 2020	present	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The following persons have served as chancellor of the Edwardsville campus:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Template:Abbr	SIUE Chancellors	Term start	Term end	Template:Refh
Vice President for the Southwest Illinois Campus (1955–1960)
–	Harold W. See	September 1, 1955	November 29, 1960	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Vice President for Operations (1961–1964)
1	Clarence W. Stephens	August 11, 1961	1964	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Presidents of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1971–1995)
2	John S. Rendleman	July 1, 1968	March 4, 1976Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
acting	Andrew J. Kochman	March 11, 1976	October 14, 1976	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
acting	Ralph W. Ruffner	October 14, 1976	January 16, 1977	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
3	Kenneth Shaw	January 17, 1977	September 14, 1979Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	Earl Lazerson	September 15, 1979	July 10, 1980
4		July 10, 1980	January 10, 1994	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Chancellors of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1995–present)
5	Nancy Belck	January 11, 1994	August 31, 1997Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
6	David Werner	September 1, 1997	June 30, 2004	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
7	Vaughn Vandegrift	July 1, 2004	June 30, 2012	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
8	Julie A. Furst-Bowe	July 1, 2012	August 14, 2015Template:Efn	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
interim	Stephen Hansen	August 15, 2015	July 31, 2016	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
9	Randy Pembrook	August 1, 2016	February 28, 2022	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
10	James T. Minor	March 1, 2022	present	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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External links

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