Illinois Wesleyan University

It's college graduation season and the young people matriculating school this year have spent more than half their college time in the middle of a pandemic. Commencement speakers are trying to find messages of optimism for these young people entering the working world.

The president of Illinois Wesleyan University says the design phase of a new $20-30 million campus building is finishing up. Georgia Nugent said the Petrick Idea Center is on pace to open in the summer of 2025 on the southwest corner of the campus quad.

Last year was a very good year for college endowment funds. A strong stock market yielded healthy returns for many Illinois institutions of higher education.

Two art exhibits at the Wakeley and Merwin Galleries on the Illinois Wesleyan University campus are celebrating the fullness of Blackness and exploring the theme of Afro-futurism.

In a recent survey published by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents, 96% of responding school districts said "they have a substitute teacher shortage problem" and 90% said that shortage "continues to get worse."

An Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball player took time to work on her other passion after she wasn't able to play basketball last year when the coronavirus pandemic shortened the season.

William Murphy is a renowned expert in biomedicine who studies ways medicine can mimic nature.

Bloomington-Normal is not a bad place to be if you are a bird. That's according to a study done by Illinois Wesleyan University biologist Given Harper.

Punk rock and Elizabethan poetry might not seem like a natural combination. But Illinois Wesleyan University makes it work in a new production of the musical, "Head Over Heels," streaming Friday through Sunday.

The rate of new coronavirus cases at Illinois State University and Illinois Wesleyan University have dropped as vaccinations increase.