The campus was also mentioned in an article on campus active shooter training, but I'm covering that in a Parkland post here. There were also a couple items on the University and veterans dealing with transfer credits and reentry housing in a separate post here. In a previous Cheat Sheet post on DPI updates, there were concerns about the new campus draining resources from the local campus. At the time the person chosen to head the Institute was from UIUC. The News-Gazette is reporting that another administrator from the local campus has also been selected. UI names first academic administrator for Discovery Partners InstituteĪs plans proceed on the Chicago development that will house the much-heralded Discovery Partners Institute, the University of Illinois has hired DPI's first academic administrator. The UI announced Friday that Urbana sociology Professor Phyllis Baker - who has been working on the DPI project as a special assistant to President Tim Killeen for more than a year - will be the inaugural director of academic affairs at the Chicago-based research institute. Meanwhile, the University Senates Conference, a UI faculty advisory group, recommended that the project proceed on a temporary basis, and that was endorsed last month by the Urbana and Springfield campus senates.
The Chicago campus senate, however, declined to endorse DPI in March, citing questions about how faculty royalties and intellectual property will be handled and about DPI's costs and funding, among other issues.ĭPI must still be formally approved by the UI Board of Trustees and the Illinois Board of Higher Education. In more salacious and strange news, the allegations against a professor have become more public along with his denials and the accuser has ended up in legal trouble in a separate incident related to online information.
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