The list of Northern Illinois University people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, faculty and staff, chief executives, and affiliates of the Northern Illinois University.
The following persons has led Northern Illinois University as president since 1899: [1]
No. | Image | President | Term start | Term end | Refs. |
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1 | ![]() | John Williston Cook | 1899 | 1919 | [2] |
2 | J. Stanley Brown | 1919 | 1927 | [3] | |
3 | Joseph Clifton Brown | 1927 | 1929 | [4] | |
4 | Karl Langdon Adams | 1929 | September 5, 1948 [a] | [5] | |
5 | Leslie A. Holmes | 1949 | 1967 | [6] | |
6 | Rhoten A. Smith | 1967 | 1971 | [7] | |
7 | Richard J. Nelson | August 1, 1971 | January 27, 1978 | [8] [9] | |
8 | William R. Monat | 1978 | 1984 | [10] | |
9 | Clyde Wingfield | July 1, 1985 | May 22, 1986 | [11] [12] [13] | |
10 | John E. La Tourette | May 22, 1986 | May 31, 2000 | [14] [15] | |
11 | John G. Peters | June 1, 2000 | June 30, 2013 | [16] [17] [18] | |
12 | Douglas D. Baker | July 1, 2013 | June 30, 2017 | [19] [20] [21] | |
interim | Lisa C. Freeman | July 1, 2017 | September 20, 2018 | [22] | |
13 | September 20, 2018 | present | [23] [24] [25] | ||
Table notes:
After months of interviewing and hours of discussion, the board regents, the governing board Northern Illinois University, this morning selected Clyde Wingfield to serve as the university's president. Wingfield, who is scheduled start at NIU July 1, is currently president of the State University New York at Old Westbury. The position he will fill at an salary of $72,000 was vacated William Monat, who left the NIU presidency Sept. 1 to become board of regents chancellor.
Northern Illinois University Vice President John La Tourette will be named the university's 10th president during a Illinois Board of Regents meeting today in Springfield, according to a high-level regent source... Speaking on the condition he not be identified, the source said current university President Clyde Wingfield has been forced to resign by the board because of "negative publicity he has brought NIU." These statements were confirmed by two university officials who also requested not to be identified. The sources say La Tourette, 54, will take over as president, "almost immediately," while Wingfield will be allowed to stay at the university presidential residence no later than August. Wingfield may then take a five to six month leave of absence and be allowed to return to the university as a fully tenured political science professor.
When John La Tourette strode out of the closed white pine doors a little after 4 p.m. that Thursday afternoon in Springfield, an impatient press corps knew the days of Clyde Wingfield were numbered. But it wasn't until the next day at noon that La Tourette, then the number two man in control at Northern Illinois University, was publicly named as the 10th president of the state's second largest institution of higher education.
A mixture of laughter and celebration filled the Clara Sperling Sky Room at the Holmes Student Center as a crowd of city and education officials, students and faculty gathered to welcome Northern Illinois University's 11th president. John Peters, who now serves as provost and chief operating officer at the University of Tennessee, will assume the presidency June 1.
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