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Chancellor search continues Provost search will not begin until new chancellor named BY AARON NAVARRO ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
Since last August, the University has been searching for a new chancellor after former Chancellor Phyllis Wise stepped down along with Provost Ilesanmi Adesida. The search for a provost will not begin until a new chancellor is named. The path for a new chancellor began in earnest Aug. 31, when the Senate Executive Committee began organizing the guidelines for a search committee. Students got the chance to be assigned to the committee during an Illinois Student Senate meeting Oct. 7. The search committee was fully put together and announced on Oct. 23, and Antoinette Burton was appointed committee chair a month later. The search committee is comprised of 15 total members, eight being faculty members, two undergrad-
uate students, one graduate student, one assistant dean, one director and one member from Facilities and Services. The committee works with and advises President Timothy Killeen on the selection of the new chancellor. In February of this year, it was announced that search firm Greenwood/Asher & Associates would be contributing to the chancellor search. The main role of Greenwood/Asher & Associates is to help with the search process by providing logistical support, Burton said. “They have contacts in the world of higher education,” she said. “But we the committee, are really the drivers of the search.” Greenwood /Asher & Associates have been hired by the University in previous chancellor, president and director searches. The firm has been paid
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses a gymnasium full of supporters at his rally in the Activities and Recreation Center on March 12.
University’s top-10 visitors the College of Law. She also presented a lecture to the public at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, where she spoke about her career and growing up in the Bronx. “If you live thinking about the negative, there will never be any positive,” Sotomayor said.
BY MICHAEL SEMACA STAFF WRITER
1. Bernie Sanders Like most college students, many Illini have been ‘feeling the Bern’ all year long, so it’s no wonder that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visited the University in March ahead of the state primary. Thousands of students waited in line for hours to see the Vermont senator speak, and Sanders, the only Democrat or Republican candidate to visit the University this year, made sure to have his message heard. “If you want to vote for me great, if you don’t want to vote for me that’s OK,” Sanders said. “But you don’t have the right to buy elections because you’re a billionaire.”
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3. Arne Duncan The University’s wheelchair basketball team had a guest in September: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Duncan praised the University’s Disability Resources and Educational Services program, as well as the University’s wheelchair basketball teams. “Again, the University of Illinois is an absolute model,” Duncan said. “It is an absolute model for the nation to be looking at.”
2. Sonia Sotomayor
4. Opal Tometi
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice to serve on the United States Supreme Court, paid a visit to the University in March to facilitate a mock court case from
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Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson speaks with The Daily Illini’s Editorial Board on Jan. 14 at the University of IllinoisChicago campus.
Opal Tometi, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, stopped in Urbana-Champaign in February to host a conversation with
faculty and students in Allen Hall. She spoke about what made her decide to start the movement: the acquittal of George Zimmerman that started the movement. “It broke my heart. I felt like I got punched in the gut,” Tometi said.
5. Guillermo del Toro The annual Ebertfest brings in many famous movie personalities, and 2016 was no exception. World famous director Guillermo del Toro presented his film Crimson Peak at the festival. After the screening, he participated in a Q&A with film lovers, talking about everything from first dates to his growth as a director to why he makes films. “I don’t do movies for demographics. I make them for myself. I don’t give a movie two, three years of my life if I don’t absolutely adore it.”
6. Bob Woodward Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward, known for breaking the
Watergate corruption story in 1972, spoke at the University in January as part of the College of Law’s lecture series about Abraham Lincoln. Woodward also sat down for a short interview with the Daily Illini, talking about things like the 2016 presidential race. “Whoever becomes president is going to have to be someone who can deal with the convulsions in the world,” said Woodward. “There are many things going on domestically and abroad that are very serious. The leadership that is required is going to be large.”
7. Father John Misty Indie music fans rejoiced when RSO Star Course announced that Josh Tillman, better known as Father John Misty, would be performing at Foellinger in April. The singer-songwriter’s 2015 record “I Love You, Honeybear,” received widespread critical acclaim from music outlets like
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MAP Grant long-term funding status unknown BY CLAIRE TEXTOR STAFF WRITER
Monetary Award Program (MAP) Grants have caused a large amount of uproar among Illinois students throughout this past academic year. Tight state budgeting has led to controversy and difficult decisions. “MAP is not part of the university’s budget, but rather a direct grant to students from the state,” said Robin Kaler, Associate Chancellor of Public Affair. “In a typical year, MAP funds come to our Office of Student Financial Aid and they apply the grants to students’ accounts.” Around 130,000 students across the state currently
benefit from MAP Grants. The University distributed over $12 million last August to 5,667 qualified students on campus. Last November, Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson notified MAP eligible students that their aid might be in jeopardy due to state budget cuts and reform. “If the university ultimately does not receive MAP funding from the state, we may be required to remove these funds from your university account and you might have to repay the university,” Wilson said. The next big word on MAP Grants came in February when Illinois Governor
Bruce Rauner voted to veto a bill that would have supported higher education funding for low-income students. In a statement given by Rauner, he said the bill “would explode the state’s budget deficit, exacerbate the state’s cash flow crisis, and place further strain on social service providers and recipients who are already suffering from the state’s deficit spending.” The following month, the Illinois State Senate passed a bill proposing to overturn Rauner’s veto. However, the bill failed to obtain threefifths majority in the House and the bill remained vetoed. Senator Donne Trotter,
assistant Majority Leader and one of the bill’s sponsors, said the governor failed to fund the MAP Grants by deciding to “hold the people of the state of Illinois hostage … he decided not to pay these students to assist them to go to college after agreeing to do so.” In a turn of events, the Illinois comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger paid out the MAP Grants in full. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission sent $164 million in MAP Grant vouchers to her office. “Our students have suffered unacceptable hardship
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How much has the state promised Illinois Universities in MAP grants? MAP grants promised but not paid for 2015-2016 school year $125,000,000 $100,000,000 $75,000,000 $50,000,000
$101,855,557 for all public universities $60,398,184 for all UI schools
$25,000,000 $0 SOURCE: Northern Public Radio Thomas Hardy
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Investigations cause change College of Medicine advances BY MICHAL DWOJAK AND CHARLOTTE CARROLL MANAGING AND SPORTS EDITORS
For Josh Whitman, reality has sunk in. His position as Illinois’ athletic director was announced Feb. 17 and he was introduced to the campus community at a press conference Feb. 18. On his first day in office in March, Whitman fired football coach Bill Cubit and just days later hired former pro coach Lovie Smith as the replacement. The day of his introductory press conference, Whitman took a four-mile 6 a.m. run through campus. Stopping for selfies with Alma Matar and Memorial Stadium, the former Illini footballer expressed his excitement of returning to Illinois. “To realize we’re coming back here and we’re going to be here a long time, it was
pretty impactful,” Whitman said. Whitman’s hiring and announcement of Smith’s job gave new life to a program that has undergone a year of turmoil. Last Mother’s Day, a series of tweets sent by former football player Simon Cvijanovic and additional reports of allegations of player abuse in the women’s basketball program ultimately resulted with the firing of the University’s athletic director Mike Thomas, head football coach Tim Beckman and assistant women’s basketball coach Matt Divilbiss. Cvijanovic’s tweets prompted former Chancellor Phyllis Wise — who resigned in August — to launch an investigation into the accusations made by the former offensive lineman. Thomas stood by Beckman after the accusations were made,
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which might have sunk the former athletic director. Chicago law firm Franczek Radelet conducted the investigation for much of the summer. Beckman was expected to coach the team at the start of the season until Thomas received the preliminary results of the investigation and fired Beckman on Aug. 28, a week before the start of the season. Thomas cited that Beckman was found guilty of player mistreatment and scholarship mistreatment, forcing Thomas to fire the coach before the release of the full report. Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit was named the interim head coach after Beckman’s firing. Cubit provided calm and stability for much of the season until the full report was released
BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER
While the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s timeline to initiate its first class in 2017 has been pushed back to 2018, Carle Health Systems and the University are working to ensure that accreditation, dean selection and fundraising are all in place. This is the first new college the University has established in over 60 years, said Robin Kaler, campus spokesperson. It will combine medicine with bioengineering to transform the way the medical field is taught, said Andreas Cangellaris, dean of the College of Engineering.
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