The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that'll help locate Yingying Zhang, a visiting scholar from China who disappeared from the University of Illinois at Urbana. And the university credit union is raising money to help members of her family who are in Champaign-Urbana during the search.

The University of Illinois’ Urbana campus has been taken off an academic censure list. Delegates to the annual meeting in Washington, DC, of the American Association of University Professors voted Saturday to take the campus off the list — recognizing that the school had addressed concerns over the Steven Salaita controversy.

Building and food service workers at the University of Illinois’ Urbana campus have ratified a new three-year contract, retroactive to last summer.

Leaders of labor unions on the University of Illinois’s Urbana campus say President Timothy Killeen has refused their request for a meeting. But an administration spokesman says otherwise. Members of the Campus Labor Coalition called for a meeting with Killeen during a Tuesday news conference outside of the Henry Administration Building on the Main Quad.

The animal rights group Stop Animal Exploitation Now says the University of Illinois has shown a pattern of negligence, after 22 animal deaths in just over a year.  There's still an open investigation with the USDA tied to the deaths of five cows in August of 2015.