Dawn Rhodes

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the White House business session with U.S. governors in Washington on Feb. 25, 2019. DeVos is proposing changes to how college officials handle sexual assault claims against students.

DeVos overhaul could make campus sex misconduct harder to prove. Will that protect the accused or silence accusers?

May 23, 2019 at 6:41 a.m.

After a University of Chicago student reported to school officials last year that her former boyfriend sexually assaulted her, a school disciplinary board ruled in her favor and expelled the...

Chicago police comfort one another as they leave the University of Chicago Medical Center on Nov. 19, 2018, to join a procession accompanying an ambulance bearing the body of Officer Samuel Jimenez, who was shot and killed at a separate South Side hospital earlier Monday.

Here’s a look at other workplace shootings that have occurred in the Chicago area

August 22, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

An alleged gunman is dead after authorities said he shot and killed five people and injured five police officers at a manufacturing facility in Aurora on Friday. Here’s a look...

The American Lung Association says the state of Illinois is failing to do enough to reduce tobacco use among adults and youths.

Illinois not doing enough to cut down tobacco, e-cigarette use: American Lung Association

May 23, 2019 at 6:44 a.m.

Illinois leaders are not doing enough to reduce statewide tobacco use, according to a new study by the American Lung Association, blaming the failures on overly lenient state laws and...

Firefighters work at the scene of a fire on the 100 block of North Green Street late Jan. 30, 2019, in Chicago.

Here’s a running list of everything that’s closed in the Chicago area because of weather

May 22, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

Scores of Chicago-area schools, Illinois universities and public institutions from the Adler Planetarium to Lincoln Park Zoo are closed this week as near-record-low temperatures slam the Midwest. Aside from large...

A student studies under a tree at the main Quad with the Foellinger Auditorium in the background, at the University of Illinois campus in Urbana on Aug., 12, 2015.

University of Illinois plans in-state tuition freeze for 5th straight year

May 23, 2019 at 6:43 a.m.

Continuing an ongoing battle to attract local students, University of Illinois will not increase in-state tuition rates for next fall’s incoming freshmen, school leaders announced Tuesday. Base annual tuition for...

Students sit in a lounge in the Student Center East building at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016.

In a bid to bolster arts and humanities programs, University of Illinois gives $2M in grants

May 23, 2019 at 6:42 a.m.

University of Illinois music professor Adam Kruse was completing an application for a $6,000 grant when he got the news: He and three colleagues landed a university-sponsored award worth 25...

People walk on campus Oct. 8, 2018, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Concerned about government shutdown hitting college financial aid? Don’t worry yet, university experts say

May 23, 2019 at 6:40 a.m.

College students and their families may be wondering if the federal government shutdown is affecting financial aid. For now, local experts say, families needn’t worry too much. The U.S. Department...

Phillip Beverly, a political science professor at Chicago State University, above, and professor Robert Bionaz sued the university, saying its attempts to shut down their CSU Faculty Voice blog violated their free speech rights.

Chicago State to pay $650K to end lawsuit over faculty blog criticizing school leaders

May 23, 2019 at 6:39 a.m.

A bitter lawsuit between Chicago State University and two professors who published a blog rebuking school leadership is coming to an end after more than four years. Chicago State has...

‘We get excited if someone gives us $1,000’: UIC, Northwestern receive $1 million each from former professors

May 23, 2019 at 6:36 a.m.

Martha Pollak got one of the shocks of her career as a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago about a year ago. UIC’s art history department, which Pollak oversees,...

University of Illinois professor fired for falsifying data in grant applications

May 23, 2019 at 6:34 a.m.

A tenured biology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was fired Friday, a rare punishment that essentially means a career death sentence in higher education and that has...

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