BILL STACY WILL BE HONORED

Bill W. Stacy, former president of Southeast Missouri State University, will be awarded the honorary degree of University Fellow from Anglia Polytechnic University, England.

The ceremony will take place Nov. 4 in Chelmsford Cathedral in Essex.

Stacy left Southeast in 1989 to become the founding president of California State University-San Marcos, the first state university to be built from the "ground up" in the United States in over 20 years. CSU-San Marcos held dedication ceremonies on Oct. 2 to celebrate the opening of its first three buildings.

Anglia Polytechnic University, which is building a new campus in Chelmsford, England, first visited CSU-San Marcos in the spring of 1990 to learn about the problems and opportunities involved in building a new university. The two universities have developed a "sister university" relationship and exchange faculty and staff. Student exchange programs are currently being planned.

In making the announcement of the honorary degree, Mike Salmon, vice chancellor of Anglia Polytechnic said, "The Governors of Anglia Polytechnic wanted to confer a University Fellowship to Dr. Stacy on the occasion of its investiture to full university status as a measure of our regard for the partnership that has developed between the two universities."

Stacy will accept the degree as part of a ceremony that will also formally celebrate Anglia's new status and the investiture of its new chancellor.