New EIU President to be Announced Friday Afternoon

Eastern Illinois University will announce its next President Friday afternoon.

A ceremony is scheduled at 3pm in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Union University Ballroom in Charleston.

The candidates are Jay Gatrell, the current vice president of academic affairs at Eastern; David Brennen, former dean of the University of Kentucky's David Rosenberg College of Law; Diana Rogers-Adkinson, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania; and Michael Godard, provost at Southeast Missouri State University.

The new president will succeed Dr. David Glassman, who has served as head of EIU since 2016 and announced his retirement in 2021.