Enrollment is plummeting at lesser-known universities, taking down the local businesses they had fostered.

This is a series of stories about Western Illinois University students, alumni and community members, highlighting their experiences during our 125th anniversary celebration. We will feature 125 ...

Western Illinois University is known as an opportunity institution that helps students increase their social mobility. Taking it a step further, Western Illinois University is the first school to ...

Western Illinois University is laying off all nine of its library faculty—eight of them tenured or on the tenure track—as part of wider efforts to offset a $22 million budget deficit driven by rising ...

Western has announced two big layoffs ... In Urbana-Champaign, the dominant, if oft-tacit, view is that the flagship University of Illinois deserves funding that reflects its research stature ...

Students, staff, and administrators at Western Illinois University Quad-Cities are asking Illinois lawmakers for $7.2 million in operational funding to develop WIU-QC's Innovation Campus vision.

Work continues to commercialize pennycress into a viable biofuels feedstock. Dr. Win Phippen at Western Illinois University ...

The application deadline for the online MBA programs at Western Illinois University, a public school, is rolling. For these programs, all of the online classes are recorded and archived.

It has been a busy week for the Illinois football program, and it just got busier. On Thursday, the Illini announced they have moved the date for their 2025 season opener against Western Illinois ...

Dominican Kerris Shillingford earned her doctoral degree from Western Illinois University during the May 2025 Commencement ...