Dawn Rhodes

Several Illinois public universities are continuing to lose students a year after the state budget impasse ended. Enrollment data provided by 10 state universities show broad declines that barely slowed...

In a sign of just how flush major universities have become in their fundraising, Northwestern University has soared past its five-year capital campaign goal months ahead of schedule and now...

In recent years, Northeastern Illinois University has been in crisis mode. Already losing ground with enrollment, the university was hit with the state’s two-year budget crisis that starved it of...

University of Illinois is honoring President Barack Obama with its prestigious ethics in government award, school leaders announced Thursday. Obama will come to the Urbana-Champaign campus Sept. 7 to accept...

For years, Illinois universities have watched as thousands of the state's best and brightest students headed elsewhere for college. Lured by generous scholarship offers, and spooked by the state’s budget...