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A federal ruling restoring AmeriCorps grant funding in states that sued over the Trump administration's dismantling of the program may help keep important legal assistance available in McLean County.
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The future of a state-funded program to increase the diversity of faculty at colleges and universities in Illinois is in doubt as the Trump administration continues to pressure higher education to abandon DEI values.
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A group of state attorneys general is asking educators at all levels to have courage in the face of lost funding and lawsuit threats by the federal administration.
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After his first school year on the job, new Illinois Wesleyan University President Sheahon Zenger paints a portrait of an institution "re-claiming its birthright" as a liberal arts education center in Central Illinois.
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Leaders at the electric automaker Rivian said Tuesday they’ve recorded their second-straight profitable quarter to start 2025, even as President Trump’s tariffs present “significant uncertainty” and will raise production costs by several thousand dollars per vehicle.
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen calls Trump administration plans to zero out home heating and cooling help for "very low-income" people "cruel."
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May Day protests against Trump administration policies took place across the nation on Thursday, including one outside the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.
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One of the leading Bloomington-Normal auto dealers says it's difficult to say how the tariffs will impact vehicle prices. He's already seen some customers move up their purchases in hopes of avoiding sticker shock.
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Illinois State University President Aondover Tarhule is one of over 400 college and university leaders who’ve co-signed a public statement opposing what they call “unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.”
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Protesters in Bloomington chanted “deport Trump” and “Hey, ho-ho, Donald Trump has got to go” on Saturday in the second of a series of nationwide protests against Trump administration policies.