MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – Western Illinois University Construction Project Coordinator Derek Willey has been named the Al and Elaine Goldfarb Civil Service Employee of the Month for February 2022. Willey was hired for his current position in October 2020. According to his nominator, Willey is knowledgeable and always eager to help. “In the year and a half he has been in Facilities Management, he has worked on several large construction projects, all over campus that have impacted scores of people,” his nominator said. “We are impressed with the designs he has created for the Horn... Read More

Western Illinois University Director of Creative and Marketing Services Jessica Lambert has been named the Al and Elaine Goldfarb Civil Service Employee of the Month for September 2021. Lambert began working at WIU in 2010 as a Web Specialist I in University Relations. She was reallocated by audit to the title of Webmaster in 2011. In June 2017, her title was changed to Creative Digital Integration Associate and again in August 2017 to Creative and Digital Integration Manager through an audit. She was named to her current title in May 2020. According to Lambert’s nominator, her outreach to... Read More