Illinois Wesleyan University

Ed Rust Jr. was the inaugural speaker of Illinois Wesleyan University's newest speaker series, featuring influential business leaders. It's called the Kinder Brothers Speaker Series — named for alumni Jack and Garry Kinder, founders of Kinder Brothers International.

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will visit both Twin City universities next month – including one event that’s free and open to the public.

The matriarch of a prominent Bloomington-Normal business family has died. Linda Shirk was 79.

Nearly 600 new students began classes at the Bloomington campus this fall. Almost half are student-athletes.

The City of Bloomington will hold an Inclusion & Access Compliance Symposium from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 26 at Heartland Community College’s Astroth Building.

The number of international students attending Bloomington-Normal colleges and universities will be down significantly when classes begin this month because of the anti-immigration stance of the Trump administration.

It’s the end of an era for Illinois Wesleyan University’s School of Theatre Arts, which housed a bodiless Aphrodite head on top of their building for more than two decades.

In adding a quantum science and technology concentration, Illinois Wesleyan University said it's joining a handful of Midwest universities to offer undergraduate training in that discipline.

Shriners Children's hosted a "Hospital Experience" event ahead of a football game benefiting the children's hospital with locations in St. Louis and Chicago.

An Illinois Wesleyan University physics professor says the Trump administration's effort to choke off the supply of international students at U.S. universities is unwise. The administration is taking a hard line on visa approvals for international students, particularly those from China.