Higher Values in Higher Education http://www.wiu.edu/unews Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT FeedCreator 1.8.0-dev (info@mypapit.net) http://wiu.edu/images/logo1.gif http://www.wiu.edu/unews/ 55 93 Higher Values in Higher Education en-us 2008 Western Illinois University Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6363 Kevin Timlin, assistant director in the Center for International Studies (CIS) at Western Illinois University, has been awarded a Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Program in Korea. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6363 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6364 Western Illinois University will host the second annual College Student Personnel (CSP)/Student Services Summer Institute for Western's CSP alumni and former student services staff Thursday-Friday, June 26-27 on the WIU-Macomb campus. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6364 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6358 Eleven Western Illinois University faculty and administrators were recently inducted into Western's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6358 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6359 Koren Zailckas' novel "Smashed" beat a field of worthy competitors as the chosen common reading for Western Illinois University's 2008-2009 First Year Experience (FYE) program. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6359 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6362 John Mougros of South Elgin (IL) entered Western Illinois University in Fall 2007 as a freshman with a couple of goals in mind: first, to do well as a student; and secondly, to get rid of the excess weight he had carried all of his life. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6362 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6355 Area students and schools were recognized for outstanding projects submitted into competition at the 51st annual Technology Education Exhibit sponsored by the Western Illinois University engineering technology department. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6355 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6357 Nearly 150 Western Illinois University students were recently inducted into Western’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6357 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6360 Western Illinois University administrators have already taken action in anticipation of the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates (APR), which were announced today for all sports teams at Division I colleges and universities. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6360 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6352 Western Illinois University's College of Fine Arts and Communication announced its award recipients for the 2007-08 school year. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6352 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6353 Thirty-four Western Illinois University Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets received awards recognizing excellence in academics and military training during a Spring 2008 Bulldog Battalion ceremony. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6353 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6354 Former Western Illinois University art professor Ann Mullin-Renshaw, 67, of Macomb, died May 1 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Family will meet friends from 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 9 at Dodsworth-Piper-Wallen Funeral Home in Macomb. Cremation rites have been accorded. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6354 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6356 Seven students participating in Western Illinois University's Spring 2008 Commencement Weekend Ceremonies May 9-10 in Macomb and May 11 at the i wireless Center (formerly The MARK of the Quad Cities) in Moline have received the highest recognition from their college faculty. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6356 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6348 Five students from Western Illinois University's Student Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (SCIMA) have been named one of the four finalist teams in the IMA Student Case Competition. The team will go for the national title at the IMA Conference in June in Tampa, FL. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6348 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6349 Michael Hott, Physical Plant architectural superintendent, has been named the Western Illinois University May Civil Service Employee of the Month. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6349 http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6350 Western Illinois University Physical Plant personnel will treat four groupings of Red and Austrian Pines on the WIU-Macomb campus during summer break for Diplodia Tip Blight, according to WIU Campus Planner II Tara Beal. Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:37 GMT http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=6350