The Illinois Board of Higher Education has approved five more schools as part of the academic reorganization plan at SIU-Carbondale.
Interim chancellor John Dunn says they are the School of Agricultural Sciences...School of Analytics, Finance and Economics...School of Human Science...School of Education and School of Management and Marketing .
These five schools represent the second phase of reorganization, with an anticipated launch date of January 1, 2020.
Dunn announced the first phase of seven new schools back in March. They included the School of Biological Science...School of Applied Engineering and Technology...School of Earth Systems and Sustainability...School of Health Sciences... School of Justice and Public Safety...School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and School of Computing.
The plan is to launch these seven schools on July 1st of this year.