College of Engineering

A group of non-union workers at Illinois State University threatened to unionize during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say over 200 ISU employees have signed a petition asking for raises, in the wake of other collective bargaining on campus.

Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe says Illinois State University's future presence on Bloomington's east side may spark development of Country Financial’s remaining 26 vacant acres at GE and Hershey roads.

At Friday's board of trustees meeting, ISU's administration will seek approval of a plan to spend no more than $17.5 million to purchase property at 1709 and 1711 G.E. Road in Bloomington. The purchase would mark a pivot away from long-held plans to renovate two, on-campus buildings for the new College of Engineering.

Illinois State University’s governing body approved a new degree program, additional funding for work at the future home of the College of Engineering and the first renovations of the chemistry lab at University High School since 1965 during a regularly scheduled meeting Friday.

The Illinois Board of Higher Education recently approved Illinois State University's curricula for mechanical, electrical and general engineering. It's one more step in the process of opening the College of Engineering that is expected to enroll its first students in the fall of 2025.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen took a tour Friday night of the Illinois State University campus with interim president Aondover Tarhule and discussed the state of education in central Illinois, and national and international affairs.

Illinois State University staff is asking trustees to approve up to $14 million in borrowing to help finance the new Mennonite School of Nursing Simulation Lab Building. Trustees meet Friday to take up that issue and a number of other proposals.