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Southern Illinois University
Official Seal of Southern Illinois University
Established 1869
Type Public
Chancellor John Dunn (interim)
President Glenn Poshard
Faculty 1,553
Undergraduates 21,000
Postgraduates 2,600
Location Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Campus Rural,
1,133 acres (4.6 km²)
Athletics NCAA Division I
Colors Maroon and white
Nickname Salukis
Mascot Brown Dawg
Website www.siuc.edu

Southern Illinois University is located in Carbondale in the U.S. state of Illinois. The Carbondale campus is the main campus of the Southern Illinois University system, which includes its smaller sister institution Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

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The Illinois public university serving the southern half of the state. SIU was founded as Illinois Normal University in 1869 in Carbondale, IL with a total of twelve academic departments. It had 143 students in its first class. Southern Illinois University now ranks among Illinois’ most comprehensive public universities.

Each year, some 21,500 students enroll in the 175 academic programs seeking an Associate's, Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctoral and professional degrees in either law or medicine. Academic programs include agriculture, art, aviation, automotive technology, anthropology, business, cinema-photography, computer science, dental hygiene, education, engineering, foreign language study, forestry, history, information systems technology, journalism, music, political science, psychology, radio-television, social work, recreation, and rehabilitation.

SIU's campus comprises roughly 1,100 acres (4.6 km²) with an additional 2,250 acres (9.1 km²) of nearby agricultural fields and about 3,000 acres (12 km²) within an outdoor environmental learning center.

Former university president Delyte W. Morris added a law school, medical school and dental school during his 22 year tenure as president. When he accepted his position SIU was known as a teacher's school.

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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; recognizes Southern Illinois University, Carbondale as an elite institution of higher education, based on breadth of research and academic programs. Carnegie categorizes Southern as: "RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity)." [1]

SIU was the first major university in the United States to be handicap accessible in the early 1960s. It also has the #1 CESL (Center for English as a Second Language) and the best ranked Automotive Technology programs in the nation. It also carries the distinction of having nationally ranked programs in Aviation, Mass Communications, Fine Arts and Rehabilitation among others.

The area of the state the university occupies (known as Little Egypt) has many beautiful natural attractions and sites. Site-seeing, hunting, fishing, camping, backpacking, climbing, rappelling, hiking and other related outdoor activities are abundant in the region

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On November 18, 2005, the SIU Board of Trustees unanimously selected former congressman and three-degree SIU alumnus Glenn Poshard to serve as the new President of Southern Illinois University. Poshard took office in January 2006.

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Five Consecutive NCAA appearances (2002-2006). [2] Only 16 College basketball teams in the nation hold this distinction.

The Saluki men's basketball team garnered national attention for the school by advancing to the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen in 2002. The next two years, the team was eliminated in the NCAA Tournament first round, each time by one point. In the aftermath of each loss, the incumbent basketball coach left for a Big Ten school. Bruce Weber left to take the head coaching job at Illinois in 2003; Matt Painter left to become the top assistant and designated successor to Gene Keady at Purdue the following year.

Part of the SIU Saluki men's basketball team's 2003 season was chronicled in MTV's True Life: I Am A College Baller.

Basketball Hall of Famer Walt Frazier led the Salukis to the 1967 National Invitation Tournament title. His number is one of two retired by the men's basketball team.

The Saluki baseball team has also been successful, reaching the championship game of the College World Series twice.

The Salukis won the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA national football championship

The actor Richard Roundtree attended SIU on a football scholarship.

The NFL's Brandon Jacobs was drafted by the New York Giants after his graduation from SIU in 2004.

In 2006 the Saluki football team became the first Gateway Conference school to defeat a Big Ten opponent (Indiana). [3]

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SIU has been ranked among the top ten party schools in the nation by "Playboy" magazine. [4]

Buckminster Fuller taught at SIU for many years. Several of the original geodesic domes can be found around the campus and city, including the so-called Bucky's Dome, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

John Belushi made the sweater labeled "College" at SIU. His younger brother Jim graduated from SIU. [5]

The first boss enemy for a video game was created at SIU in 1974 by two students, Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood, for dnd.

The actress and Playmate of the Year, Jenny McCarthy, was studying nursing at SIU when she submitted her photo to Playboy magazine.

In 2006 student cheerleader Kristi Yamaoka made national news for cheering for the basketball team while strapped on a stretcher after falling from a pyramid.

The Daily Egyptian, or DE, the student newspaper published at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, won a National Pacemaker Award for general excellence several times, making it one of the five best of its kind in the country.

The DE frequently lands in the winner's circle with peer papers published at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois.

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Missouri Valley Conference
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Gateway Football Conference
Illinois State • Indiana State • Missouri State • Northern Iowa • Southern Illinois • Western Illinois • Western Kentucky • Youngstown State
Public Colleges and Universities in Illinois
Chicago State • Eastern Illinois • Governors State • Illinois • Illinois-Springfield • Illinois State • Northeastern Illinois • Northern Illinois • SIU-Carbondale • SIU-Edwardsville • UIC • Western Illinois
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