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  Low-cost health care clinics in Carbondale are readily available, but suffering from insufficient funding and the state of Illinois' inability to reimburse Medicaid costs, said Fred Bernstein, CEO of Community Health Emergency Services, Inc.  ...

SIUC head chef Bill Connors said he is always pushing for more locally grown produce to be used at the university....

Lack of state funds has made SIUC less accessible

Illinois is rapidly losing its image as an affordable place for higher education and administrators say without state help, not much can be done. The state received a failing grade in the subject of affordability for 2008 from the National Center for Publ...

Official report to be released next week

The official enrollment report will not be released until Sept. 4, but administrators are already preparing for what it could bring. In an interview with WSIU that aired Monday morning, SIU President Glenn Poshard said enrollment was down 800 students on ...

A proposed conflict-of-interest policy that awaits adoption by the SIU Board of Trustees could have prevented allegations of conflict of interest against the board’s chairman, administrators say....

Board set to approve 4.5 percent tuition, 10 percent student fee increases

The SIU Board of Trustees will address a semester’s worth of heated issues Thursday when it meets for its final meeting of the spring semester....

The semester wraps up....

Lance Camp did not expect renovations at SIU Arena to prevent his sister from watching him graduate from law school. The law school’s graduation was during commencement weekend in the past, but this year Camp and his classmates will graduate from th...

SIU Athletic Director Mario Moccia was kind enough to weigh in on the DE's Saluki Sports Awards.  This is what he had to say if he was handing out the hardware. Biggest Improvement: Probably Dann Nelson. I don't know if anybody really thought there w...

Diversity to play major role in search

The search committee for the new chancellor should have the position filled by summer 2010, administrators said....

It has been a whirlwind year in Saluki sports. The 2008-09 calendar brought everything from conference championships to changes on coaching staffs and in the locker room. With the school year coming to a close, members of the DE Sports Desk reflected on t...

Tennessee men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl has announced he’s affianced to Brandy Miller only months after the university’s football coach Lane Kiffin’s wife had a Facebook group named in her honor. Which wife would you rath...

Whoever came up with the saying that all good things must come to an end is foolish.  Not in the literal sense, because it is true ... mostly because all things eventually do come to an end.  However, no one wants good things to come to an end b...

I wonder if John Cusack is happy in real life.  ...