Southern Illinoise University Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- LAN Admin
- Email:
- Phone:
- 618-453-3494
Bill is a Born Hoosier, having lived the first year of his life in a dorm room at Indiana University while his father was completing his Master’s degree in Business. Bill returned to Indiana for his undergraduate years and loved university life so much he never really left. For nearly four decades, he has worked almost exclusively in Student Affairs organizations at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the Illini Union and College of Medicine at the University of Illinois and the Student Center at SIUC. Now he is with SIU Athletics, where he administers all tech, be it scoreboards, game film servers or workstations.
He is a veteran of Information Technology, having built his first network in 1988 while working on his Master’s degree at New York University. He has also taught technology to grade and high school teachers at SIU’s College of Education. He is an owner of SIU’s Golden Parking Sticker and displays it proudly on his 1977 Corvette.
Bill plays basketball with Old School Hoops at the SIU Rec Center and tennis with the Anderson Tennis Academy in Carbondale.
Bill is SIU’s 2017 Lindell W. Sturgis Award Public Service Award Recipient (link - https://www.tke.org/news/2017/06/21/bill-bruns---2017-sturgis-award-recipient) and is very active as the Chapter Advisor for SIU’s Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter, having been inducted into the TKE Chapter Advisor Hall of Fame and received multiple awards for Advisor of the Year from SIU’s Interfraternity Council, Inter Greek Council, and the governing body for Registered Student Organizations.
Bill’s wife Debbie is am Emeritus Professor of Special Education in SIU’s School of Education. Their daughter Marlie has two Master’s degrees from the Erikson Institute in Chicago and their son Will is a Mizzou alum and works in St Louis in the insurance industry. Their cat, Ember, is indifferent to him.
