Former UI Provost Hogan to Illinois

UPDATE, May 12:

The University of Illinois made it official May 11, announcing Michael Hogan as its 18th president, pending formal approval by the Board of Trustees at its next meeting May 20 in Chicago. Hogan would take office July 1. 

Selected from a field of 208 candidates for the Illinois presidency, Hogan emerged as the top choice in the seven-month search because of his  combination of scholarship, university leadership experience and achievement, Board of Trustees Chairman, Christopher G. Kennedy said in a statement.

The University of Illinois enrolls more than 71,000 students at campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield.

 “I'm delighted to be returning to the Midwest to lead the University of Illinois, a top-tier institution and center of outstanding research and scholarship,” Hogan said in a statement. “I grew up in the Midwest, earned my degrees here and started my family here. I couldn't be more pleased to return to my roots as president of this world-class university.”

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that former University of Iowa Provost Michael Hogan is the top choice to become the new president at the University of Illinois.

Hogan left the UI in September 2007 to become president at the University of Connecticut. The Waterloo native earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Iowa and was well-liked as provost.

Check out the Sun-Times article

here.