With enrollment plunging SIU Carbondale chancellor pushes a radical overhaul - Chicago Tribune

Faced with plummeting enrollment and deteriorating finances, the chancellor at Southern Illinois University is proposing a radical reorganization that has spurred fierce backlash from many faculty members and stoked broad confusion about how it would be implemented. SIU Carbondale Chancellor Carlo Montemagno is pushing to eliminate academic departments and department heads, a highly unorthodox move that eschews the customary structures of higher education. In its place, he wants to introduce a hierarchy of colleges, schools and programs that would move related areas of study under the same roofs and foster easier collaboration. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-siu-chancellor-academic-departments-20171122-story.html