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Morning headlines
9:38 am
Mon December 5, 2011

Morning headlines: Monday, December 5, 2011

Credit (Missouri State Redistricting Office)
Some lawmakers are raising constitutional questions about new Missouri House and Senate districts. The St. Louis area is shown here.

Lawmakers raise constitutional questions about new districts

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Higher Education / University of Illinois
1:31 pm
Wed August 3, 2011

Wise named new chancellor at U. of Ill. Urbana campus

Credit (Courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Phyllis Wise has been named as the new chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reporting from WILL's Tom Rogers was used in this report.

The University of Illinois has chosen University of Washington Provost Phyllis Wise as its next chancellor.

In a news release Wednesday, the university says Wise will take over the top job at the university's flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 1 - pending approval by the board of trustees at their next meeting in September.

University President Michael Hogan called the 66-year-old Wise a proven scholar.

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