Graduate students rally for better health care and higher wages at the University of Illinois
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Graduate students rally for better health care and higher wages at the University of Illinois

GEO leaders say the U of I administration increased health care costs without notice, which puts a significant burden on graduate workers and ultimately causes the quality of education provided at the U of I to suffer.

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A university, a rural Illinois town and their fight to survive Trump’s war on higher education

The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public institutions like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.

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Midgets no more? Bill would require Freeburg High School to change its mascot

A bill introduced in the Illinois General Assembly would prohibit public schools from using discriminatory references to disabilities as mascots — requiring Freeburg High School to phase out Midgets by 2028. Little people with dwarfism consider the term to be dehumanizing and derogatory. “We don’t want to erase history,” said Shelby Holloway, co-director of Mascots Matter, a national…