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Alumni Achievement Awards | Housing Plan Update | Alumni Association Coming to a Location Near You| Think Purple!
Alumni Achievement Award Recipients Announced
  
ReginaYoung Hyatt, Mark Konkol & Jim Krasula
Three Western Illinois University alumni have been selected to receive the WIU Alumni Achievement Award at the Saturday, Dec. 17 Commencement Exercises.
This year's Alumni Achievement recipients are Regina Young Hyatt, dean of students and associate vice president for student affairs at the University of Alabama, Huntsville; Mark Konkol, a writer with the Chicago Sun-Times and recent Pulitzer Prize winner; and Jim Krasula of CBS Radio.
Western's Alumni Achievement Award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions in one or more of the following: exceptional accomplishment in one’s chosen field of endeavor; exceptional service in community affairs at the local, state or national levels; or exceptional service in support of the advancement and continued excellence of WIU.
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WIU Housing Master Plan Update
 Author Ann Douglas is quoted as saying "Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved." But for Western Illinois University Housing and Dining Services (UHDS), there's always room for improvement when it comes to college students' homes away from home.
Roughly one-third of Western's nearly 12,500 student body lives on campus, and to make residence hall life as comfortable -- and convenient -- as possible, UHDS created a master plan in October 2008. The plan's purpose is to address aging residence hall facilities and declining residence hall occupancy, as well as to ensure the future success of WIU's housing and dining program.
Read more.
Join us TODAY for Western After Hours!
 The WIU Alumni Association's new tradition has begun! Join us for Western After Hours in the Chicago-area.
Today we will be in Libertyville at Mickey Finn's Brewery, 412 N. Milwaukee Ave.
We will be hosting Western After Hours on the first Thursday of each month in the Chicago-area. Save the dates for these upcoming Western After Hours:
January 5, 2012 - Downtown Chicago
February 2, 2012 - Homewood
March 1, 2012 - Downtown Chicago
April 5, 2012 - Schaumburg
May 3, 2012 - Downtown Chicago
June 7, 2012 - Naperville
July 5, 2012 - Downtown Chicago
August 2, 2012 - Chicago suburb
September 6, 2012 - Downtown Chicago
October 4, 2012 - Chicago suburb
SAVE THE DATE!
Homecoming 2012 September 21-22 (note date change)
Think Purple!
WIU Marketing continues its efforts to promote Western Illinois University and get everyone in the state to "Think Purple!" If you're in the Woodfield Mall this month, be sure to look for the WIU kiosks featuring WIU alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Konkol and WIU student and Rhodes Scholar finalist (WIU's first-ever!) Jenna Verity. Jenna was also featured in a Chicago Daily Herald ad on Nov. 24, and Mark has been featured in ads in the Sun-Times and its sister papers. For some samples of recent WIU advertising, read more.
Can you find this exact Rocky (in black and white) somewhere else in the eNewsletter? If you find him, email us at A-Association@wiu.edu and let us know where he was placed. One winner will be picked from all the entries emailed on the first day of the month and will get a WIU Prize Pack! Good luck!
****Congratulations to the November winner--Bill McGowan '85. He found Rocky on the Foundation & Development webpage.
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