PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 20, No. 14, Feb. 15, 2001

UIS names new chancellor

The senior academic officer at East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C., is the choice of UI President James J. Stukel to be chancellor of the UI at Springfield.

Pending approval by the UI Board of Trustees, Richard D. Ringeisen, 56, East Carolina vice chancellor for academic affairs, will join UIS in April in the campus’s top position. He succeeds Naomi Lynn, who led UIS through its early transition as the third campus of the UI, starting in 1995.

Ringeisen, an Indiana native with educational and professional ties to the Midwest, has academic and administrative experience at Old Dominion, Clemson, the Office of Naval Research, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne and Colgate.

"Dr. Ringeisen brings a wonderful combination of academic stature, practical experience at several levels of administration, an understanding of ‘town and gown’ relationship-building and a deep and realistic appreciation of UIS’s aspirations," Stukel said. "I was immediately struck by his enthusiasm for the campus and the university and I am pleased that he has decided to join the UI family."

Ringeisen called coming to UIS "an incredible opportunity."

"The UI at Springfield is such an exciting place to be right now," he said.

"It was clear to me from meeting the president, the trustees, the search committee and others that UIS is on the go, people are ready for the next step. This opportunity to help build a first-rate liberal arts university, while staying true to its public affairs commitment, to create residential life, while remaining a campus that also serves non-traditional students and, on top of it all, to be a part of the UI and all that that connotes, was just too great to pass up."