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Corbally was previously the chancellor of Syracuse University and resigned to become the president of the MacArthur Foundation. [23] 14 1979–1995 Stanley O. Ikenberry: Ikenberry resigned to become the president of the American Council on Education. [24] 15 1995–2005 James J. Stukel: Stuckel is an alumnus of the University of Illinois Urbana ...
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees then named Michael J. Hogan, formerly the president of the University of Connecticut, to succeed Ikenberry and become the permanent president of the University of Illinois. Hogan later resigned on March 23, 2012 [31] "after months of turmoil, a faculty mutiny and a scandal in the president's office ...
Established as one of 37 public land-grant institutions established after the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. The act was signed by Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding ...
Edmund Janes James (May 21, 1855 – June 17, 1925) was an American academic, president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, and the primary founder, first president and first editor for the American Academy of Political and Social Science. [1] He also served as the 7th president of Northwestern University from 1902 to 1904.
Michael J. Hogan (born 1943) [4] is an American historian who served as president of the University of Connecticut (2007–2010) and president of the University of Illinois System (2010–2012). He subsequently became a distinguished professor of history at the University of Illinois at Springfield. [5]
Embattled Illinois state GOP Chairman Don Tracy resigned Wednesday, ending his more than three-year run and furthering a chaotic period of leadership for a political organization bordering on ...
White was named the sixteenth president of the University of Illinois in 2004, succeeding retiring president James J. Stukel. As president, White oversaw the three campuses in the University of Illinois system—Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. (In the University of Illinois system, each campus is headed by a chancellor.
University of La Verne President Pardis Mahdavi, the second woman in history to hold the school's top job, stepped down this month after less than a year at the private college.