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CARBONDALE — With overall capacity about halfway full, Camp Little Giant still has spots for children and adults with varying levels of physical and mental disabilities to register, according to

A free, public presentation on the work and legacy of noted futurist, architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller by one of his former students is set for Sunday, April 7, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

John G. Gilbert worked as the “education senator” alongside his close friend SIU President Delyte W. Morris in helping transform Southern Illinois University Carbondale from a small teachers college to a major university in the 1960s and 1970s.

Buffalo Tro will be Nov. 17 at SIUs Touch of Nature.

The tro is inspired by the ceremonial meal that was common among Indigenous Plains peoples and the Southern Illinois community embraced the tradition decades ago.

The Buffalo Tro, a popular longtime Southern Illinois University Carbondale tradition returns to Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center on Nov. 17, and tickets are available now.

Board Chair Phil Gilbert calls President Mahony one of the best ever at SIU.

The school announced Dr. Loren Klaus died Wednesday morning at the age of 93 at his daughter's home in Texas.

The Board of Trustees of the newly created, but not yet built, Shawnee Junior College (now Shawnee Community College or SCC) in Ullin, Illinois, appointed Dr. Klaus as its first

Chris Hedges’s “Our Class” is a chronicle of the many frustrations and contradictions that await those eager to teach in America’s vast carceral network.