Dr. Paul Bauer is the Dept. head at NIU School of Music. He is also who does the announcing for the Huskie Marching Band when they take the field for their halftime show.
Dr. Bauer will be missed.
From the article:
" Paul Bauer has already made the decision to retire from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb in a few weeks.
Bauer is director of NIU's School of Music. At 57, he's spent 28 years at NIU and hadn't planned to step aside for a while. But staying will reduce his pension by "tens of thousands of dollars."
NIU President Doug Baker says as much as 20 percent of the school's faculty and staff, about 800 people, could leave. With a budget of $446 million, NIU isn't considering any kind of pension supplement either, spokesman Paul Palian said.
That is where the potential problems on campuses around the state start to come into focus.
About a third of NIU's graduate school staff is leaving, Bauer said. The School of Music will be particularly affected, he said, since about a third of its students are grad students.
"There are little pockets around campus, offices, that are going to be so negatively affected it's going to be difficult to provide the services they would like to apply," he said."
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School of Music Dept. head retiring due to IL pension changes
