Illinois Issues: Budget Impasse Blurs Future For The Class of 2016
The state budget impasse means that high school seniors choosing a college are now having to take the school’s financial stability into account.
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UI Non-Tenured Track Faculty Holding 2-Day Strike
About 500 University of Illinois faculty and reseachers will walk off the job Tuesday and Wednesday. NTFC Local #6546 is holding its strike to try and prompt U of I administrators to discuss how they plan to proceed in collective bargaining. Among the union's demands are multi-year contracts for non-tenured faculty.
The 21st: #BlackScienceMatters, & A New Galaxy Unveiled
A multimedia journalism project sheds a light the lack of representation of African-Americans in the sciences and engineering. We discussed what's being done about it. Also, we spoke withone of the astronomers who discovered a new "dark galaxy" 4 billion light-years away.
Illini Baseball Sweeps Billikens
Six different Illini players drove in runs in Sunday's 6-2 victory.
McFadden Again Wins Boston Marathon
University of Illinois graduate Tatyana McFadden has won her fourth straight women's wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon. McFadden completed the 26.2-mile course from Hopkinton to Copley Square in an official time of 1 hour, 42 minutes, 16 seconds.