EIU: 14% Drop In Freshmen Enrollment Partly Offset By Other Increases
Freshman enrollment this fall at Eastern Illinois University is down by 14 percent from last year — but overall fall enrollment is down by only five percent.
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Study: Budget Impasse Hurt Communities With Higher Ed Institutions
A U of I researcher says Illinois’ two-year budget crisis has hurt the state’s public universities and community colleges.
Affirmative Action; Concierge Medicine; Responding To Emotional Trauma After Natural Disasters
On the 21st: Are there potential changes coming to how universities factor race and ethnicity into admissions? Plus, we learned how the concierge medicine trend is shaking up the healthcare industry and spoke to an Illinois researcher who helps families recover from the emotional trauma of natural disasters.
Judge Appoints Public Defender In Yingying Zhang Kidnapping Case
The man accused of kidnapping U of I visiting scholar Yingying Zhang has new lawyers representing him, after prosecutors told the judge new charges could include the death penalty.
As Irma Passes Dominican Republic, Florida Girds For The Coming Storm
Hurricane Irma continued its northwestward sweep Thursday evening, losing little steam as it skirted the Dominican Republic and Haiti and bearing the full force of its 165-mph winds down upon the southeastern Bahamas and away from the Turks and Caicos islands.
