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