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(Bloomberg) Northern Illinois University sold about $99 million of federally tax-exempt, insured bonds on Tuesday to purchase two residence halls after the school’s enrollment gained slightly, reversing more than a decade of declines with a focus on recruiting more minority students.
U.S. colleges saw drops in undergraduate enrollment for the spring semester. That deepened the pandemic-related economic strains faced by schools that had to spend more on Covid-19 testing and Plexiglass as revenue fell because of less-full dorms and dining halls. Overall, college enrollment is running 2.9% below last year’s level, according the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Even before the pandemic, colleges had been bracing for projected enrollment drops especially in the Midwest and Northeast because of demographic trends that show fewer 18 year-olds.
April 28, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – Raymond Lawson, dean of online learning at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines and Skokie (IL), has been named the director of distance education and support at Western Illinois University, effective June 1, while Jacob Bartels has been named the distance education support specialist, effective May 17.
Lawson has served as dean of online learning at Oakton Community College since 2017. In this role he has directed the development and implementation of programs, and collaborated with faculty and staff to set and implement goals for online learning. Lawson also was responsible for developing external partnerships to enhance online learning program initiatives, and for overseeing instructional design activities and improvements to the processes.
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Seed funding awarded as part of sustaining Illinois program
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From left are Nima Lotfi, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering; Carrie Butts-Wilmsmeyer, PhD, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Center for Predictive Analytics (C-PAN); and Kevin Tucker, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry.
EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville researchers are leading and supporting collaborative projects that aim to develop robotic technologies to support the state of Illinois’ specialty crop industry, and quantify perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), so that groundwater testing can be performed.
They are among eight research teams to have received seed funding, totaling $229,000 from the Illinois Innovation Network’s (IIN) Sustaining Illinois program. The program is designed to increase collaborative research among the state’s public universities, focusing on the economy, health and so
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“We ve got so used to thinking we can t engage closely, or we have to stay outside, if we go in, we wear a mask, said Degges-White. Our brains really [got used to it] because the survival of the species depends on us following the science.”
The pandemic has been a rare collective trauma. So, she said, we need collective healing too.
“It s so important that we empathize with folks’ fears and their hesitancy,” she said. “This rocked the world and we don t know what someone else experienced in their own family, what they saw among their friends, or concerns they have that are being fueled by facts.”