Universities

The board of the 101-year-old Catholic university voted Sunday to close the Clayton-based private school, officials said. Nearby Washington University has agreed to buy the 16-acre property.

The commission was formed by the Illinois General Assembly in 2021 to consider new funding formulas for its public universities.

Guiyou Huang, Western Illinois University’s president, announced Friday he will step down at the end of the month in the midst of the university's enrollment turmoil.

As the cost of higher education continues to rise in Illinois and elsewhere, a growing number of students are working to earn as many college credits as possible while they are still in high school.

A class-action lawsuit challenging the exemption that allows religious colleges to discriminate against gay students, even while receiving federal funds.

Belleville is using tax increment finance money to close the deal even though Mayor Patty Gregory said the city would use a state grant to pay for the property.

City Attorney Garrett Hoerner said the city is in “preliminary planning stages” of what it would do with the campus.

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