EIU Instructor Talks About Meaning Of Dismissal

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Published November 1, 2016 at 11:13 AM CDT

After hundreds of layoffs at Eastern Illinois University earlier this year, faculty members with annually renewed contracts got word they might be let go this fall semester. One of those 17 faculty members let go, EIU journalism instructor Dan Hagen, says he was dismissed just two weeks before classes started. We talked with Hagen about his experience and what he thinks it means for the state of higher education in Illinois.

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Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Maureen Foertsch McKinney is news editor and equity and justice beat reporter for NPR Illinois, where she has been on the staff since 2014 after Illinois Issues magazine’s merger with the station. She joined the magazine’s staff in 1998 as projects editor and became managing editor in 2003. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois Springfield, she was an education reporter and copy editor at three local newspapers, including the suburban Chicago Daily Herald, She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Eastern Illinois University and a master’s degree in English from UIS.

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