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OGLESBY - The Illinois Valley Community College board Thursday approved a $34.4 million budget for fiscal 2022. That is up seven percent over the previous year

Students returning to the Illinois College campus later this month still will be greeted...

Facilities, fundraising, enrollment a Larry Dietz legacy Sign In LENORE SOBOTA, The Pantagraph FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5File- This Sept. 11, 2019, file photo shows Illinois State University President Larry Dietz introducing ISU graduate and artist Wonsook Kim and her husband, Thomas Clement, after they gifted $12 million to the school during a ceremony at the Center for the Performing Arts in Normal, Ill. The two-year budget impasse and the COVID-19 pandemic are the elephants in the room when one reviews the challenges Dietz faced in his seven years as president of Illinois Sta...

Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times Community colleges across Illinois are cautiously optimistic they will be able to bring back students for in-person classes this fall. And while a few four-year schools in the Chicago area — including Loyola University Chicago, Columbia College and DePaul University — have announced that students will be required to be vaccinated before returning to campus, most community colleges do not plan to make vaccines mandatory. After more than a year of nearly all remote coursework, most community colleges said they plan to offer classes four different ways this fall: fu...

UpdatedWed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:33 pm CT Replies(58) Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration has reversed its decision to deny school districts federal funding for SafeGuard Surveillance saliva testing following a lawmaker's bill and a Patch investigation. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration has reversed its decision to deny school districts federal funding for a particular brand of coronavirus saliva testing that officials say helped keep classrooms open during the coronavirus crisis, Patch has learned. News of the policy change came Tuesday after state Rep. Mic...