Eastern has released news about the retirement of a top administrator.
Provost Blair Lord says he'll retire from the university in June 2017.
Lord says he wants to stay an additional year and a half to continue working on current goals and initiatives.
His decision comes a couple of months after some EIU faculty voted "no confidence" in Lord's work.
Eastern's President David Glassman says he will begin a full and open national search for a permanent provost in August.