At the Executive session of the Board of Trustees meeting Meera Komarraju, Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, presented the academic reorganization plan to the board. Komarraju said the reorganization makes it possible to bring several programs together to share resources, reduce redundancies, and generate synergy while facilitating interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Dunn-Richmond is a piece of SIU’s Research Park where inventors and student-run businesses come to grow.

Madison Riden has been one of the two Marching Salukis drum majors for the past two years. “I would say that my experience is pretty complete here,” Riden, a senior studying anthropology, said. “I went from being a normal member to a section leader to two years as drum major, which was an honor to get two years back-to-back because it’s very rare that Dr. George Brozak does that.”

USG passed senate resolution 19-02 on its final meeting for the semester, giving two solutions to the issue of RA’s seeking the ability to gain outside employment from the university while remaining an RA. A resident assistant is provided room and board and a meal plan as a form of payment for their work, totaling to $5,288.34 per semester. RA’s are also given a pre-tax stipend of $600 per semester. This breaks down to RA’s being paid around $2.00 an hour.

With December commencement approaching and upperclassman make the transition to life outside of SIU, they have learned and gathered advice that would be useful to those coming after.  “I think the most important advice anyone could give a incoming student or future graduate would be don't give up, you might surprise yourself,” Dalton Sharrow a forestry major and senior graduating this December.

"Further, this letter is not intended to demonize the Board or pit the students against the administration: neither the Board nor the administration have ever needed my help in that regard."

Southern Illinois (7-4) fell 80-52 to the Murray State Racers (6-1) during tonight's military appreciation game, ending the five game winning streak by the Salukis.

The United States Postal Service will suspend service on Wednesday, Dec. 5 as part of the National Day of Mourning for former President George H.W. Bush.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has conceded his re-election bid to billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker, the Hyatt hotel heir's victory likely putting his party in near total control of state government by limiting the governor to a single term.

Fresh off the midterm elections, and now gearing up for 2020, both parties are grappling with one of the most confounding spectacles in modern...

On an August day in 1921, the boats began arriving here at St. Ann's by the Sea, a bucolic Episcopal summer chapel surrounded by lush gardens on Kennebunkport's Atlantic shore. Unbeknownst to those gathered, they were witnessing the forging of the most successful political dynasty in American history.

By Nick Knappenburger, Staff Photographer

Amber Blakeslee and Ayla Amadio of Carbondale jog together, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, during the Santa Speedo 5K Run/Walk for HIV Care Connect at the Life Community Center....