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Michael D. Gillespie is Dean of Student Success and Professor of Sociology at Eastern Illinois University. Dr. Gillespie has previously served as the Director of the Faculty Development and Innovation Center . 

Working with a diverse group of Â鶹´«Ã½ and faculty who have their own biography, struggles, and passions is inspiring.  When these worlds collide, as Carl Sagan writes, ‘something incredible is waiting to be known’.   

"I am hopeful, not out of mere stubbornness, but out of an existential concrete imperative" ~Paulo Freire