March 10, 2026 After months of stalling, foot-dragging, and all-around wasting of everyone's time, the UIS administration has pushed tenure-track faculty to the brink of a strike! It's outrageous that the University of Illinois routinely pushes employees to this point before it will bargain a fair contract in good faith! It's a waste of taxpayer dollars and no way to run a university! Enough is enough! Union members: watch your email for voting times/days/places! #GotUnion  

By Isabella Froh , News Editor Feb 20, 2026 DeKALB — A projected budget deficit was discussed during Thursday’s Board of Trustees Finance, Audit, Compliance, Facilities and Operations Committee meeting.  The budget deficit for Fiscal Year 26 (FY26) will cause a tuition increase and rising operational costs across the university despite improvements from the previous year. The university recommended a 2.5% increase in base tuition and no change in undergraduate differential

By Kaileia O’Brien , News Reporter Feb 22, 2026 DeKALB – During Friday’s Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) lecture, special guest Karen Samonds discussed her extensive work with paleontology and experience in science as a woman. The Women in STEM lectures are meant to give community members a voice and spark inspiration in those who listen. While the lectures focus on women and their experiences in STEM, the lecture series is open to all. Samo

February 24, 2026 MACOMB, IL - - After countless hours of dedication, Western Illinois University alumna and nationally-recognized artist and Professor Tyanna J. Buie can now add a new location to her long list of places her work is featured: the Obama Presidential Center. Buie's story of resilience and freedom was jumpstarted by her time at WIU , and her newest installment, "Be the Change!" will be available to view by the general public when the Center opens later this Sum

Official UIS News By Blake Wood 2026-02-26 The University of Illinois Springfield College of Business and Management celebrated the opening of the Sean and Taryn Grant/Landmark Auto Trading Lab on Feb. 26 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The lab features 12 Bloomberg Terminals that support hands-on learning for UIS students pursuing careers in finance, data analytics and related fields.

February 19,2026 By Nihya Walker , Former News Reporter DeKALB — In 1915, Fanny Ruth Patterson made history as the first Black woman to graduate from NIU, then known as Northern Illinois State Normal School. She earned her two-year degree at a time when opportunities for Black Americans, especially women, were limited by segregation and discrimination.

Article releases February 26,2026 Northeastern Illinois University’s Genocide and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora (GHRAD) Center will host “Echoes of Silence: Portraits of Pain, Reflections of Resilience” March 2-23. The exhibit features portraits of survivors of the 1972 genocide in Burundi, Africa as well as other images taken on study trips to Burundi with Northeastern students, faculty and staff between 2023-2025. “Echoes of Silence” is free and open to the publi

IFT January 16, 2026 Today, the largest member union of the IFT where our President also leads, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), complied with an investigation from the House Education and Workforce Committee. Instead of investigating the dismantling of the Department. of Education or the withholding of funds to our school districts, the Committee has used its power of checks and balances to go after a local union that is advocating for its students and a quality school day.

by Blake Wood 12-08-2025 Kyle Blount , an assistant professor of ecohydrology in the University of Illinois Springfield’s Environmental Studies Program within the College of Health, Science and Technology, has co-authored two collaborative research articles that offer new guidance for cities and researchers working to manage extreme heat, water challenges and the growing demands of urbanization.

-explores cause of sea urchin die-offs in Caribbean November 19, 2025DEKALB, IL Now, an NIU researcher is part of a major, multi-institutional effort to understand why it happened and how to stop it from happening again. When long-spined sea urchins across the Caribbean began dying by the thousands in 2022, marine scientists feared a repeat of an ecological disaster that struck coral reefs four decades earlier. Researchers are studying the mysterious die-offs of Diadema antil

December 12, 2025 The City of Chicago has designated the streets from N. Keeler Ave. between W. Ainslie Ave. and W. Foster Ave. as “James ‘Jim’ Macdonald Way,” after Northeastern's late, former Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

State Journal Register, 11/9/25, guest columnist, John Miller UPI President John Miller writing about the proper funding our educational institutions. He speaks of a time when he delivered newspapers and teachers who had been laid off needing the help wanted ads.  He seen the fear, anger and frustration in their faces.  He saw it again, at WIU and again, when EIU laid off 40 professionals.  And yet, another institution is facing deficit spending. The underfunding is leading t

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Sean Crawford Published October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM CDT Two unions negotiating with the University of Illinois Springfield for new contracts call the lack of progress "staggering." They want a mediator to get involved. Unions representing UIS staff and tenure and tenure-track faculty began bargaining with the school in June. But the units said the university only put forth financial offers in recent days and called them disappointing.

Friday, October 31 Rob Denson Yeah, that's a good question. And right now, 24 states allow their community colleges to do bachelor's degree. And it may not be four years. Our accreditation agency has now okayed three year bachelor's degrees, moving from 120 credits down to to 90. When I was in Florida, Santa Fe Community College was one of the first to do the bachelor's degree. But really, it was because there was no capacity at the University of Florida and other Florida uni

by Peter Hancock October 23, 2025 SPRINGFIELD — The new leader of the Illinois Federation of Teachers says state lawmakers should consider raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations that have received federal tax breaks under the Trump administration to increase state spending on education and other public services.

by Katie Moore Oct. 15, 2025 CHARLESTON, Ill. (WCIA) — More than 40 employees of Eastern Illinois University will be out of a job after the university made an announcement this week saying they will be cutting positions due to funding-related issues.

October 10, 2025 #UISedu  celebrated National Coming Out Day with the annual Closet Door event. Students, faculty and staff came...

September 12, 2025 Franklin Park, IL – Illinois Federation of Teachers President Dan Montgomery and West Suburban Teachers Union, AFT/IFT...

Jun-26-2025 The Village Project at EIU’s Summer Immersion Program builds confidence, bolsters opportunity   (Charleston, IL)  — Eastern...

While schools like Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern have gotten most of the attention, regional public universities are losing grants...