Illinois State University's Board of Trustees has voted to accept the resignation of now-former president Terri Goss Kinzy, the 20th person to hold that role and the first woman to lead the university.
Illinois State University President Terri Goss Kinzy has resigned after less than two years on the job. No reason was given for Kinzy’s abrupt resignation.
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Illinois State University President Larry Dietz is not making a hard recommendation to the board of trustees about a fall tuition increase, but says looking at what other state universities already have approved, “My sense would be for a modest 1-2% tuition increase.”
He suggested a gradual increase would lesson the need for a more dramatic boost later.
At a trustees meeting on Saturday, the administration showed a slide showing a 1% increase in tuition for full-time incoming freshmen for the 2021-2022 academic year would take the cost of attending ISU from $25,169 to $25,421 a difference of $252, if approved.
During the spring semester, Illinois State University students will be receiving an antigen COVID-19 test that will provide results within hours instead of days so those who do test positive can begin isolation and contact tracing as soon as possible.
Saturday morning the Board of Trustees held a livestreamed meeting on YouTube in which the new antigen testing was unanimously approved for spring semester. A vital instrument to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on campus and in the community was our COVID-19 testing efforts in the fall, ISU President Larry Dietz said. For the spring, the university has decided to utilize an antigen test as its primary testing for COVID-19.