Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a public research university located in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1869, SIUC is the flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...

system. (The other members are Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, commonly abbreviated SIUE, is a four-year coed public university in Edwardsville, Illinois about from St. Louis, Missouri. SIUE was established in 1957 as an extension of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is the younger of the two largest...

and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is an allopathic medical school located in Springfield, Illinois, the state capital. It is part of the Southern Illinois University system, which includes a campus in Edwardsville as well as the flagship in Carbondale. The medical school was founded...

.) The the university is known in official parlance as SIUC but colloquially as SIU. SIUC's total undergraduate enrollment is around 20,000.

The University is categorized as an RU/H Research University (high research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. SIU is recognized in the U.S. News & World Report rankings as a "National University," that is, a university which grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research

Research

Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

; SIUC's ranking in the 2011 US News ratings is #170. Additionally, the National Science Foundation ranks SIUC #101 among public universities in the U.S. for total research and development expenditures, and #142 among all U.S. universities. The University offers offers more than 200 undergraduate majors, minors, and specializations, 30 doctoral and more than 60 master's degree programs; law and medical degrees.

History

An Act of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly of Illinois, approved March 9, 1869, created Southern Illinois Normal University, the second state-supported normal school

Normal school

A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name...

in Illinois. Carbondale held the ceremony of cornerstone laying, May 17, 1870.

In 1869, SIU was founded as a teacher's college named Southern Illinois Normal College. It began with twelve academic departments and an initial class of 143.

After World War II, there was more of a push towards higher education. Southern Illinois University Carbondale grew rapidly in size from 3,500 to over 23,000 students between 1950 and 1980.

The university continued as a teacher's college until Delyte W. Morris took office as president of the university in 1948. Morris was SIU's longest serving president (1948–1970). During his presidency, Morris transformed SIU, adding Colleges of Law, Medicine, and Dentistry.

In 1957, a second campus of SIU was established at Edwardsville. This school, now known as Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

, is now an independent university within the SIU system.

In 2005, then-SIU chancellor Walter Wendler unveiled a comprehensive plan called Saluki Way, which will reshape the Carbondale campus over a 15-year period. Since the unveiling, much progress has been made in completing the Saluki Way project. This includes a new Football Stadium, a renovated SIU Arena, and many cosmetic changes for the campus. Also part of Saluki Way, The groundbreaking for a New Student Services building is set for early 2012.

Leadership

On November 18, 2005, the SIU Board of Trustees unanimously selected former congressman and three-degree SIU alumnus Glenn Poshard

Glenn Poshard

Glenn Poshard is a former Illinois State Senator, U.S. Congressman, Gubernatorial Candidate, and is currently President of the Southern Illinois University system.-Early career:...

to serve as the new President of Southern Illinois University. Poshard took office in January 2006.

Poshard announced Rita Hartung Cheng as the new chancellor of the Carbondale campus during a press conference on November 17, 2009. Cheng, formerly provost and vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee took over from interim chancellor Samuel Goldman on June 1, 2010, inheriting a budget crisis, resulting in the elimination of many non-tenured teaching positions and mandatory furloughs for employees.

On May 12, 2011, Dr. John Nicklow was named as Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Nicklow, who has worked as assistant provost and director of enrollment management for the Carbondale campus, was announced by SIUC Chancellor Rita Cheng as the choice to replace Gary Minish, who resigned from the post in January. Nicklow has served as interim assistant provost for Enrollment Management since June 2010. In that position, he is responsible for the offices of Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, Transfer Student Services, Records and Registration, Bursar, and International Programs and Services.

Academic programs and rankings

Typical of public research universities, SIUC offers more than 200 academic degree programs across all levels; associates, bachelors, masters, and doctoral. It also offers professional programs in architecture, business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

, law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

and medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

. Since 1989, SIUC has offered an MD/JD dual degree program, leading to the concurrent award of both degrees after six years.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognizes Southern Illinois University, Carbondale as an elite institution of higher education, based on breadth of research and academic programs. Carnegie categorizes Southern as: "RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity)."

While ranking #170 in the 2011 edition of US News' annual college rankings of "National Universities" overall, SIUC placed #101 in the listing of public National Universities. Ranking performance was partially based on ratios of students to faculty. At SIUC, 50 percent of the classes offered cap out at 20 or fewer students; only 5 percent of classes include 50 or more students. The ratio of students to faculty is 15.7 to 1 and the percentage of full-time faculty is 96 percent.

The Princeton Review named SIUC in its 2012 list of "Best of the Midwest" colleges. The Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition includes SIUC. The book, the second annual edition from The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council, recognizes colleges that demonstrate "a notable commitment to sustainability."

Departmental and program rankings

The College of Business and Administration ranks among the best in the United States, with the finance department among the top 5 percent.
The Automotive Industry Planning Council ranks the Automotive Technology Program as No. 1 in the country.
SIUC ranks second in the nation in American Philosophy.
U.S. News and World Reports ranks the Rehabilitation Institute counseling program sixth in the nation. In addition, the program won the 2006 Commissioner's Award for Excellence in Education and Training from the Federal Rehabilitation Services Administration.
The Department of Workforce Education is among the Top 10 in the country, joining Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State in that category.
The School of Law's Legal Research and Writing Program tied Rutgers University for 22nd in the nation among 184 law schools.
The Aviation programs continually rank among the top in the country in pilot training.

Colleges of Southern Illinois University

College	Year founded

College of Agricultural Sciences	1955
College of Applied Sciences & Arts	1950
College of Business	1957
College of Education & Human Services	1869
College of Engineering	1961
College of Liberal Arts	1943
College of Mass Communication & Media Art	1993
College of Science	1943

College of Agricultural Sciences

The College of Agricultural Sciences consists of four academic departments: Agribusiness Economics, Animal Science, Food & Nutrition, Forestry, and Plant, Soils & Agricultural Systems. There are seven majors and twenty-six specializations. The Colleges Ph.D. Program was added in December of 2007. The Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences is a research degree that prepares graduates for developing and funding their own research program, and for teaching graduate and undergraduate students.
In August of 2011, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation announced that it is providing $7 million to a multidisciplinary team of SIUC researchers. During at least the next six years, the team will examine the best ways to maximize agriculture in central Illinois.

College of Applied Sciences and Arts

Since its inception as the Vocational Technical Institute, CASA has undergone continuous change to address the workforce needs in the southern Illinois region, the state and the nation. The College presently includes four schools which house three master’s degree programs, fourteen baccalaureate, and two associate degree programs. The masters of science in Medical Dosimetry and one baccalaureate program, Fire Service Management, are offered off-campus only.
CASA provides off-campus opportunities to receive baccalaureate degrees in the areas of Aviation Management, Electronic Systems Technologies, Fire Service Management, Health Care Management, and Medical Dosimetry.
The baccalaureate degree in Information Systems Technologies is offered online. Forty-nine hours of upper-level and selected elective courses are available to students at various locations throughout the country.

Morris Library

Morris Library is the main library for SIUC. The Library holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 3.6 million microform units, and over 36,000 current periodicals and serials. Library users have access to I-Share (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files. As the campus center for access to academic information and collaborative academic technology projects, Morris Library provides a wide range of services, including reference assistance, instructional and technical support, distance learning, geographic information systems (GIS), and multimedia courseware development. Morris Library is a member of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA).

In 2009, Morris Library completed a massive renovation and expansion at a cost of $41 million with the architectural design team of PSA Dewberry and Woollen, Molzan and Partners

Woollen, Molzan and Partners

Woollen, Molzan and Partners is a US-based second-generation architecture, interior design, and planning firm. The company was founded in 1955 by Evans Woollen...

. The building's original façade and the HVAC and elevator systems were completely replaced. Every floor except the basement, sixth and seventh floors of the seven-story building were completely overhauled to drastically improve accessibility and remove confusion. The remaining floors were gutted, but the renovation to those parts of the building were not completed, due to budget shortfalls and cost overruns on the construction. An additional 50000 square feet (4,645.2 m²) of space was added to the north side of the library. Delyte's, a new coffee shop named after former SIU President Delyte W. Morris, now operates in a portion of the new space.

Student Center

With over 8 acres (3.24 ha) of floor space, the SIU Student Center is one of the largest student unions in the nation. The programs and services offered provide SIU students, faculty, and staff a place to relax, gather a group to study or grab a bite to eat. The Student Center hosts multiple dining locations, the University Bookstore, ATM and Western Union stations, check cashing services, the ID Card office, and Debit Dawg activations and deposits all under one roof. The Student Center offers several ballrooms and smaller, expandable conference rooms for small or large gatherings. Student-run radio station WIDB 104.3 FM broadcasts from the Student Center, and the Black Affairs Office, International Student Council, Student Programming Council or "SPC," student governments and the Greek Council are among the organizations with their offices in the building.

The Student Center operates a Bowling & Billiards facility that completed a major renovation in 2009, including electronic scoring, new lanes, glow-in-the-dark flooring, flat-screen TVs, drop-down screens, and new seating areas. Each lane is equipped with bumpers, and three IKAN Bowling Ramps will be available to attach to any model of wheelchair, allowing the occupant to control the speed, direction, and timing of the bowling ball's release. Twelve new Olhausen pool tables along with new lighting and an updated sound system are featured on the billiards side of the facility.

Recreation Center

The Student Recreation Center, or "Rec," is the university's primary hub for intramural and fitness activities.
The 213747 square feet (19,857.7 m²) building is one of the largest of its kind in the United States on a college campus. Access to the Recreational Center is free to all SIU students and for a membership fee to Alumni, Faculty and the general community.

Indoor facilities include a 880,000 gallon natatorium

Natatorium

A natatorium is a term given for a building containing a swimming pool. In Latin, a cella natatoria was a swimming pool in its own building, although it is sometimes also used to refer to any indoor pool even if not housed in a dedicated building...

(home to the SIU Salukis swimming and diving team), two weight rooms, an aerobics room, martial arts room, a rock climbing wall, tennis court, racquetball courts, squash courts, volleyball courts, basketball courts, and two running tracks.
Outdoor facilities include several lighted hard-surface tennis courts, Jean Stehr Field (used for intramural baseball, flag football and soccer), a Frisbee golf course, the campus boat dock and campus beach.

Health Center

On February 3, 2006, SIU opened a new, 57000 square feet (5,295.5 m²) health center adjacent to the Recreational Center. The $9.6 million dollar facility provides medical services to the university community and houses the medical clinic, pharmacy, wellness resources, mental health clinic, and sports medicine and physical therapy facilities. Community partners Southern Illinois Dermatology and the Marion Eye Center also provide services in the new health center.

The Saluki Way

In 2005, former SIU chancellor Walter Wendler unveiled a massive plan to reshape the core of the Carbondale campus. The plan, called "Saluki Way," is a part of the larger "Southern at 150" project. Saluki Way was approved in September 2006 by the SIU Board of Trustees and integrated into the university land use plan.

The $500 million plan is divided intro three phases and is expected to take 15 years to complete.

Phase 1: included construction of a new football stadium to replace McAndrew Stadium
McAndrew Stadium
McAndrew Stadium was a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Carbondale, Illinois, USA. It opened in 1938 and is home to the Southern Illinois University Salukis football team...

and renovations to SIU Arena
SIU Arena
The SIU Arena is a 8,339 seat multi-purpose arena, on the campus of Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois. Construction on the arena began in the spring of 1962 and took nearly two years to complete. It was completed in 1964 and is the home of the SIU Salukis basketball team.The...

, the home of the men's and women's basketball teams.
On March 3, 2009 the official groundbreaking for the first phase of Saluki Way took place. Shortly afterward, construction commenced on the new Saluki Stadium, athletic support building and renovations to the SIU Arena. Saluki Stadium was completed in August 2010, and opened on September 2, 2010 for the inaugural game. Construction of the athletic support facilities and renovations of the SIU Arena are scheduled for completion in late September/early October 2010. The Salukis will play their first game in the "new" arena on November 1, 2010.
Phase 2: The second phase calls for the construction of new classroom buildings where the current football stadium is, re-routing roads and renovating existing structures. Woody Hall, the university's hub for Student Services, will be moved to the new construction along with the Alumni reception center. No timetable has been announced for this phase of the project.
Phase 3: The third phase of Saluki Way will include the building of new dormitories. No timetable has been announced for this phase of the project.

Athletics

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The Southern Illinois Salukis are the athletic teams representing Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The university first sponsored athletic teams during the 1913–14 school year, when they were known as the "Maroons." Students and faculty began lobbying for a new mascot during the late 1940s. On March 19, 1951, the student body voted to change the official nickname to the Salukis. The saluki

Saluki

The Saluki, also known as the Royal Dog of Egypt and Persian Greyhound is one of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dog. From the period of the Middle Kingdom onwards, Saluki-like animals appear on the ancient Egyptian tombs of 2134 BC. They have connections both to the Bible and Imperial...

, the royal dog of ancient Egypt, was chosen as the mascot due to its reputation as a fast and tenacious hunter and because the southern Illinois region is known as "Little Egypt

Little Egypt (region)

-Early history:The earliest inhabitants of Illinois were thought to have arrived about 12,000 B.C. They were hunter-gatherers, but developed a primitive system of agriculture. After 1000 AD, their agricultural surpluses enabled them to develop complex, hierarchical societies...

."

The Salukis sponsor 16 varsity teams. Most compete in the Missouri Valley Conference

Missouri Valley Conference

The Missouri Valley Conference is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States...

(MVC), specifically in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, softball, women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, and volleyball. The football program competes in the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC). Men's swimming is part of the Mid-American Conference

Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...

(MAC).

Athletic highlights

The men's basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for six straight seasons between 2002–07, including two trips to the Sweet Sixteen.
The women's team was Missouri Valley Conference champion in 2007.
Football had been ranked in the Top 10 in the Football Championship Subdivision for the past four years, and were in the playoffs for seven straight years, from 2002–2009.
Softball has been ranked in the Top 25 in the nation for the past two years and has advanced to the NCAA Tournament five straight seasons.
SIU's student-athletes lead the MVC in overall grade point average.

Student life

Southern Illinois University has a vibrant student culture and is home to over 400 Registered Student Organizations (RSO). Organizations include honor societies, sports clubs and student activity groups, and 11 fraternities, 8 multicultural fraternities and 9 sororities. The largest RSO on campus is the Student Programming Council (SPC).

Student government

SIU has two primary bodies of student government responsible for distributing part of the Student Activity Fee to the RSO's:

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG)
Graduate Professional Student Council (GPSC)

Additionally, one student is elected to be the "Student Trustee"; a voting member of the SIU Board of Trustees.

The Daily Egyptian

The Daily Egyptian or "DE" for short, is an award-winning student-run newspaper. The DE is published every weekday with a distribution of 20,000 copies. The Daily Egyptian has received more than 25 awards from the Illinois College Press Association. In 2002, the paper was the recipient of the National Newspaper Pacemaker Award for General Excellence, the nation's most prestigious college journalism award.

Saluki Patrol

Founded in 1959, the Saluki Patrol is one of the oldest student security teams in the country. The student members assist the University Police in their duties.

Residences

There are four main undergraduate residence hall areas, each with their own common buildings and dining halls: Brush Towers, Thompson Point, University Hall, and University Park, for a total of 18 residential buildings. Residence hall rooms are fully furnished, and many have been modified to meet the needs of specific types of disability.

Graduate, single parent, domestic partner, and married student housing is available in Evergreen Terrace, Southern Hills, and Elizabeth Apartments.

Wall & Grand, SIU's first apartment-style residence halls, opened in 2007. The apartments are all fully furnished, including washers and dryers, and are fully accessible to students with disabilities.

According to SIU Housing policies, single freshman students under the age of 21 who do not reside with their parents or legal guardians are required to live in University-owned and operated residence halls. Students are considered to hold freshman status if they have earned fewer than 26 credit hours after high school. These restrictions do not apply to students over the age of 21, veterans, married students, single parents, or students with 26 or more credit hours.

Cardboard Boat Regatta

The Cardboard Boat Regatta is an event held every spring semester at Campus Lake. Participants include university students and community members both young and old. The goal is to complete three trips around a 200-yard course on the lake using makeshift cardboard boats. There are three different categories for entries: canoes or kayaks, experimental boats and instant boats (boats created on-site the day of the event).

The idea for a Cardboard Regatta first originated in 1974 at Southern Illinois University. Richard Archer, a professor of Art and Design, dreamed up a final examination for students in his freshman design class. Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society....

, then a Distinguished Professor at SIU, had espoused the principle of "doing the most with the least," and faculty members found it intriguing to apply these principles in their classes. Archer felt it would be a real test of students' creativity and three-dimensional design skills to build human-sized boats made only of cardboard, and more than 20 years later, it is still happening. Many communities, organizations and other universities around the country have joined in on the fun and now organize their own Cardboard Boat Regattas.

Competitive programs

National Debate Champions. Under the direction of debate coach Todd Graham, Kevin Calderwood and Kyle Dennis won the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence in 2008.
The SIU Flying Salukis Flight Team became the first team in National Intercollegiate Flying Association
National Intercollegiate Flying Association
The National Intercollegiate Flying Association is a professional organization that provides a forum of competition and learning for aviation students from colleges all around the United States....

Region 8 modern history to win first place in regional competition three years in a row (2007–2009). At NIFA SAFCON 2011, the Flying Salukis won the nation championship out of the 29 teams who qualified for the competition. Three Flying Salukis captured individual titles as well
The aviation program has been one of the best nationally for many years, with SIU's young pilots winning the International Aerobatic Club Collegiate National Team Award five of the last six years.
SIU's Radio/TV Department has won National awards (Student EMMYS) on a yearly basis for nearly a decade.
SIU's Forestry Club have been the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Midwest Collegiate Challenge champions for over 18 straight years in a row.

Notable alumni

There are currently over 220,000 graduates of Southern Illinois University Carbondale worldwide.
Notable SIU alumni include:

James Belushi
James Belushi
James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...

, actor/comedian
Jim Bittermann
Jim Bittermann
- Career :Bittermann graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University in 1970 and began in print journalism from 1969 to 1970 as a reporter for the Waukegan News-Sun in Waukegan, Illinois. His television career began at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee from 1970 to 1972...

, CNN
CNN
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European correspondent based in Paris
Chris Carr
Chris Carr (basketball)
Chris Dean Carr is an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 2nd round of the 1995 NBA Draft. Carr played six seasons in the NBA for the Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Jersey Nets, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics...

, Former NBA player
Randy Daniels
Randy Daniels
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, former Secretary of State of New York
Secretary of State of New York
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Don S. Davis
Don S. Davis
Don Sinclair Davis PhD was an American character actor, theatre professor, painter and captain in the United States Army.-Career:He was perhaps best known for playing General George S...

, actor and theatre professor, best known for his role of General Hammond on the TV series Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
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Lee Feinswog
Lee Feinswog
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, Author and TV host.
Steve Finley
Steve Finley
Steven Allen Finley is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.-Early life:Finley, who grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, attended Paducah Tilghman High School and Southern Illinois University, where he earned a degree in physiology and played for the baseball team from 1984–87.-College, Team USA,...

, Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

center fielder
Center fielder
A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field – the baseball fielding position between left field and right field...

, 5-time Gold Glove winner, 2-time All-Star
All-star
All-star is a term designating an individual as having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into vernacular and been borrowed heavily by the entertainment industry...
John Fleming
John Fleming
John Fleming was a judge in Cumberland County, Virginia who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for more than a decade, working with John Robinson and Peyton Randolph. In 1764, he worked with Patrick Henry, George Johnston and Robert Munford on the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions...

, Basketball Shooting Coach, Known as "The Free Throw Guru"
Dennis Franz
Dennis Franz
Dennis Franz is an American actor best known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a hard-boiled police detective in the television series NYPD Blue. He previously appeared as Lt...

, actor best known for his work on NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue
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Walt Frazier
Walt Frazier
Walter "Clyde" Frazier is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He was blessed with a unique combination of court vision, quickness, and size for a guard...

, Basketball Hall of Fame
Basketball Hall of Fame
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, honors exceptional basketball players, coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the game of basketball worldwide...

r and named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
Jim Hart
Jim Hart (football player)
James Warren Hart is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 through 1983 and the Washington Redskins in 1984. From 1974-1976, he guided the Cardinals to three straight 10+ win seasons along with back to back division crowns in...

, former NFL quarterback, 4 Time Pro Bowl
Pro Bowl
In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...

Selection
D.J. Heckes
D.J. Heckes
D.J. Heckes is the author of, Full Brain Marketing for the Small Business, and the founder of EXHIB-IT! Trade Show Marketing Experts in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Heckes just received the Top Performing CEO award in 2010 from NM Business Weekly...

, author of Full Brain Marketing for the Small Business and owner of EXHIB-IT! Trade Show Marketing Experts
EXHIB-IT! Trade Show Marketing Experts
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in Albuquerque, N.M.
Joan Higginbotham
Joan Higginbotham
Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.-Early life:...

, American astronaut.
Mary Lee Hu
Mary Lee Hu
-Life:Hu first became fascinated with metalwork during high school introductory courses. She later explored more work with metals during a summer camp. Hu has always wanted to be a visual artist. During her undergraduate education Hu developed her skills and continued to work with small scale...

, American artist and goldsmith
Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq
Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq
Ch Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq is a prominent Pakistani politician and a businessman who served as a Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Minorities under the Government of Prime minister Shaukat Aziz. A former Pakistan Army officer, Haq joined the Pakistan Army in 1971, as second lieutnenat, but...

, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i politician and son of former President
President of Pakistan
The President of Pakistan is the head of state, as well as figurehead, of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Recently passed an XVIII Amendment , Pakistan has a parliamentary democratic system of government. According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by the Electoral College to serve a...

General Zia-ul-Haq
Brandon Jacobs
Brandon Jacobs
-New York Giants:Going into the 2006 season Jacobs stated that he studied film of famed power running back Eddie George in an effort to refine his running style. George, like Jacobs, was a large, power running back. In the 2006 season, Jacobs carried the ball 96 times for 423 yards and nine...

, NFL running back
Curt Jones, founder of Dippin' Dots
Dippin' Dots
Dippin' Dots is an ice cream snack, invented by Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduate Curt Jones in 1987. The confection is created by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen; consequently, Dippin' Dots contain less air than conventional ice cream...
Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones , also known as "The Munch", is an American bass guitarist. Jones began his notable career as a session musician, where he gained the experience and confidence to play with some of the most highly regarded recording artists, in jazz, blues, and rock music...

, bassist of The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
Deji Karim
Deji Karim
In July 2010, Karim signed a 4-year $1.9 million dollar deal with the Jaguars.-2010 Season:During the 2010 season Deji Karim was used primarily as a returner and was the Jaguars 3rd running back on the depth Chart. Karim had 50 kick returns and averaged 25 yards per return. On limited carries he...

, NFL running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars
Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
Rodney P. Kelly
Rodney P. Kelly
Rodney P. Kelly is a retired Major General in the United States Air Force who served as assistant deputy chief of staff for plans and programs for the United States Air Force in Washington, D.C...

, retired Major General, U.S. Air Force
Al Levine, former MLB baseball player
Donald McHenry
Donald McHenry
Donald Franchot McHenry is a former American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 until January 20, 1981.-Biography:...

, United States ambassador to the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

(from 1979 to 1981)
Albert E. Mead
Albert E. Mead
Albert Edward Mead was the fifth Governor of Washington, serving in that position from 1905 to 1909.Mead was born in Kansas on December 14, 1861. There is conflicting information about his town of birth: most reliable sources say it was Manhattan, Kansas, but there is one claim he was born in...

, former Governor of Washington
Gary Noffke
Gary Noffke
Gary Lee Noffke is an American artist and metalsmith. Known for versatility and originality, he is a blacksmith, coppersmith, silversmith, goldsmith, and toolmaker. He has produced gold and silver hollowware, flatware, jewelry, and forged steelware...

, American artist and silversmith
Sir Curtis Price
Curtis Price
Professor Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE has been Warden of New College, Oxford since October 2009. He was previously Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London.Price was raised in Charleston, Illinois and received his...

, KBE
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

, President of the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

and former president of the Royal Musical Association
Randall Mario Poffo
Randy Savage
Randall Mario Poffo , better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling .Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career and was a...

, better known as professional wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage. Graduated 1971.
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and in its two sequels, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa .-Personal life:Born in New Rochelle, New York, Richard Roundtree graduated from...

, actor (Shaft
Shaft (1971 film)
Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the...

)
Bart Scott
Bart Scott
Bartholomew Edward Scott is an American football linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2002...

, NFL Pro-Bowl Selectee
Sam Silas
Sam Silas
Samuel Louis Silas is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. Drafted by the Boston Patriots in the sixth round of the 1963 AFL Draft. He went to one Pro Bowl during his eight-year career, and was selected to one All-Pro team...

, NFL Pro-Bowl Selectee
Chad Simpson
Chad Simpson (author)
Chad Simpson is a short and flash fiction author from Monmouth, Illinois. He has written numerous stories that have appeared in multiple literary magazines. His flash story "Let x" won the second annual Micro Award in 2009. "Let x" originally appeared in Esquire.com. Simpson earned a BA from...

, Micro Award winning short
Short story
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and flash fiction
Flash fiction
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...

author
Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner is an American journalist who worked for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009.Spinner grew up in Illinois, the daughter of a pipe fitter and a schoolteacher...

, author, journalist
Dave Stieb
Dave Stieb
David Andrew Stieb [STEEB] is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.-Playing career:Born in Santa Ana, California, Stieb played varsity baseball at Southern Illinois University as an outfielder...

, Retired Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

pitcher, 7 Time All-Star
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by a combination of fans, players, coaches, and managers...

, Pitched No-Hitter
No-hitter
A no-hitter is a baseball game in which one team has no hits. In Major League Baseball, the team must be without hits during the entire game, and the game must be at least nine innings. A pitcher who prevents the opposing team from achieving a hit is said to have "thrown a no-hitter"...

on 9/2/1990.
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
Lena C. Taylor is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 4th District since 2005. She previously served in the Wisconsin Assembly, representing the 18th District from 2003 through 2005....

, Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

Democratic State Senator and member of the Wisconsin 14.
Mallica Vajrathon
Mallica Vajrathon
Mallica Vajrathon is a sociologist, political scientist and former United Nations Senior Staff member. Her grandfather was Joseph Caulfield James, a special tutor to His Royal Highness, Prince Vajiravudh of Thailand , as well being second Chairman of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club. Her father was T...

, United Nations Senior Staff Member
Robert K. Weiss
Robert K. Weiss
Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer. His productions include films by director John Landis, producer Lorne Michaels, and the “Z. A. Z.” team of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. He also co-created the science-fiction TV series Sliders...

, producer of The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James...

and other films

Notable faculty

Dr. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society....

(July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983). Fuller taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1959 to 1970. Beginning as an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design, he gained full professorship in 1968. Buckminster Fuller is widely renowned for his geodesic dome
Geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial-spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and also distribute the stress across the structure. When...

design.
Paul Martin Simon (November 29, 1928 – December 9, 2003). Former U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator & U.S. Presidential candidate. He was the director of the SIU Public Policy Institute (now the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is located at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It was founded by Paul Simon, a former two-term U.S. Senator from Illinois and one-time candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States...

). Simon taught classes in politics, history and journalism.
Dr. William M. Lewis, Senior
William M. Lewis, Senior
William Madison Lewis, Sr. was a fish biologist who founded the Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He attended Iowa State University where he obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology specializing in fisheries science...

(November 26, 1921 – May 15, 2010), Director of the Cooperative Fisheries Research Unit during 1950–1983 (now called the Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center
Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center
The Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale was founded by Dr. William M. Lewis, Senior in 1950. The Center is administratively housed in the Graduate School...

). He was Chair of the Department of Zoology, President of the American Fisheries Society, and received the American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence in 1995.
Dr. David F. Duncan
David F. Duncan
David F. Duncan, Dr. P.H. was born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 26, 1947. He is President of Duncan & Associates, a firm providing consultation on research design and data collection for behavioral and policy studies. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health...

, Professor of Health Education and 1984 Teacher of the Year. Duncan taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1978 to 1989. Established the Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

program in community health
Community health
Community health, a field of public health, is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of biological communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographic areas rather than people with shared...

and the masters in health care administration. Later served as a policy advisor in the Clinton
William Clinton
Bill Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States. William Clinton may also refer to:*William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon , English nobleman from prominent Norman family dating to William the Conqueror; Lord High Admiral as of 1333*William Henry Clinton , British general from...

White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...

.
Harry T. Moore
Harry T. Moore
Harry Tyson Moore was an African-American teacher, and founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Brevard County, Florida....

, founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...

(NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida
Brevard County, Florida
Brevard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the population is 536,521, making it the 10th most populous county in the state. Influenced by the presence of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard...

.
Dr. Robert Corruccini
Robert Corruccini
Robert Spencer Corruccini is an American anthropologist, distinguished professor, Smithsonian Institution Research Fellow, Human Biology Council Fellow , and the 1994 Outstanding Scholar at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale...

, Distinguished Professor and 1994 Outstanding Scholar, Corruccini taught at Southern Illinois University from 1978 to 2011 in the College of Liberal Arts
College of Liberal Arts
College of Liberal Arts may refer to, among other things, any of the following:*De La Salle University College of Liberal Arts*Georgia Institute of Technology Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts*Kobe College of Liberal Arts...

, Department of Anthropology. Throughout his tenure
Tenure
Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have his or her position terminated without just cause.-19th century:...

at the university, he has been renowned for his expertise in both dental anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

and epidemiology
Epidemiology
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, formulating a Theory of Malocclusion
Malocclusion
A malocclusion is a misalignment of teeth or incorrect relation between the teeth of the two dental arches. The term was coined by Edward Angle, the "father of modern orthodontics", as a derivative of occlusion, which refers to the manner in which opposing teeth meet.-Presentation:Most people have...

.
Dr. Robert S. Gold
Robert S. Gold
Dr. Robert S. Gold is an accomplished researcher and nationally known expert in the application of computer technology to health education and health promotion...

, Professor of Health Education. Pioneer of computer programs for health education and public health. Later Executive Vice President of Macro International and current Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Dr. David Gilbert, Professor of Automotive Technology, was alleged to have rigged a claim of unintended acceleration of the Toyota Prius in a 2010 ABC News report, and was being paid by parties in lawsuits against Toyota.

Popular culture

In the cult hit-comedy movie Animal House the famous "College" shirt worn by actor John Belushi

John Belushi

John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...

was created for him while attending house parties with his brother, actor James Belushi

James Belushi

James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...

, who was a student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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