The state’s Commission on Equitable Public University Funding, filled with stakeholders, issued a report this spring saying that Illinois public universities are underfunded as a whole by some ...

The funding crisis has taken a toll on university towns like WIU's home base of Macomb. Dorms have been razed and two more are set to close this summer, The Wall Street Journal recently reported .

Whether it’s Macomb, Carbondale or DeKalb, Illinois’ “directional” public universities such as Western Illinois, Southern Illinois, and Northern Illinois have an outsize impact on the ...

Effective halving of state funding has contributed to strikes at universities around Illinois. When adjusted for inflation, state spending on higher education fell 46 percent between 2000 and 2023 ...

Southern Illinois University in Carbondale is investing in a new dedicated team of first responders to provide care for students experiencing mental health challenges. A $290,000 grant from the ...

The Illinois House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee met in Chicago Monday to hear from a variety of college and university officials about the need for more state tax dollars for facility ...

After some bad news last summer, we’re encouraged by talk of trying to get funding to reshape the Western Illinois University – Quad Cities campus located along River Drive in Moline. Sen ...

Also, an endorsement for the Adequate and Equitable Public University Funding Act and a critique on the media's coverage of the U.S.-backed carnage in Gaza. Let Illinois' incarcerated vote ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is pulling back $477 million from Illinois that was to be used to prevent infectious disease and treat mental health and substance abuse issues.

David Merriman is a public policy professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He said that $891 million shortfall estimate is not a shocking or insurmountable figure.