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College of Arts and Sciences Advancement Board

Mission statement

The Advancement Board supports the College of Arts and Sciences as advocates for the college and assists the dean in securing support for the college’s programs of undergraduate and graduate education, outreach to the global community, and faculty research, scholarship, and creative activity. Individual members of the board may focus their efforts on specific programs or disciplines within the college, but agree that their first responsibility is to the advancement of the college as a whole.

CAS Advancement Board Members

A cross-section of successful leaders will help Western’s College of Arts and Sciences to secure support for undergraduate and graduate programs, and assistance for faculty research, scholarship and service, and communicate with the global community, Dean Inessa Levi announced.

The Advancement Board of CAS will include a number of prominent individuals.

• Cathy Early (Macomb, Ill.), a businesswoman with State Farm Insurance, is a major contributor to WIU programs, a recipient of an Honorary Alumna Award and vice-president of the WIU Foundation.
• Lorraine Epperson (Macomb, Ill.), owner of Purdum-Epperson Century 21 Real Estate, earned a B.S. degree from WIU in 1948 and an M.S. in 1952; formerly a WIU Trustee, she is a Foundation Board member and a recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award.
• John Hallwas (Macomb and St. Petersburg, Fla.) is a Western graduate and author who also taught at WIU for 34 years before retiring in 2004.
• Pam Hoffman (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), a 1970 graduate of WIU, is currently Vice President of the Alumni Council.
• Dick Friichtenight (Alexandria, Va.), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (ret.), is a 1954 WIU alum and recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award.
• Te-Hsiu Ma (Macomb, Ill.), a world-renowned specialist in cytogenetics, is retired from WIU’s Biological Sciences Department.
• Martin Green (Springfield, Ill.), is Executive Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Attorney General’s office and President of WIU’s Alumni Council, he earned a B.A. from WIU in 1987.
• Zack Stamp (Springfield, Ill.), an attorney, earned his B.A. from WIU in 1975 and formerly served as a WIU Trustee and on the Alumni Council.
• Norm Teeter (Eads, Tenn.), a WIU Psychology graduate who built a large counseling practice including eight clinics in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Stamp is the board's first president.

The board's activities will include promoting CAS as WIU's central academic unit, advocating for increased support for the College, and helping to establish partnerships with individuals and corporations that will benefit students and the cooperating parties.

College of Arts & Sciences
Morgan Hall 118 • 1 University Circle
Macomb, Illinois 61455
Phone: 309/298-1828 • E-mail: CAS@wiu.edu