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Hall Retirement Reception Set

June 11, 2008

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MACOMB, IL -- A retirement reception for Robert Hall, educational leadership chair at Western Illinois University, will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Friday, June 20 in the University Union Lamoine Room. Hall will retire from WIU June 30 after 22 years of service.

Hall joined the educational leadership (formerly called educational administration and supervision) department as an assistant professor in 1986 and was named chair of the department in June 2004. He has also served as a research associate and director of the education project for the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs at Western.

"Dr. Hall has provided exceptional leadership to the deparment and the college and is a well-respected educator. He will be missed," said College of Education and Human Services Dean Bonnie Smith-Skripps.

Prior to working at Western Illinois, Hall served in various administrative capacities at Forest City Community Schools in Iowa.

Hall has received numerous faculty excellence awards at Western throughout the years and in 1997 and again in 2001 he received the WIU Professional Achievement Award. He has authored and co-authored several articles for professional publications and presented at many professional meetings. Hall has also served as a consultant for school districts throughout Illinois.

A scholarship has been established in Hall's honor. To donate to the Hall Fund, which will benefit master's students in educational leadership and fund a dissertation award for the doctoral program, contact the WIU Foundation at 309/298-1861 or mail contributions, payable to the WIU Foundation, to Sherman Hall 303, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455-1390. Donations may also be made online at www.wiu.com/giving.





Posted By: Darcie Shinberger (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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