On-campus enrollment at EIU has fallen by 9.77% this semester compared to last spring.
This is the most on-campus enrollment has dipped in the past 10 years beside spring of 2021—post COVID-19.
Largely,...
Eastern Illinois University will be losing $260,000 a year for the next 10 years, athletic director Tom Michael said during the board of trustees meeting Thursday.
In the meeting at the Tarble Arts...
Editor's Note: This story has been corrected to change all instances of the incorrect word FASFA to FAFSA.
EIU’s on campus enrollment is down 7.35% for fall 2024, marking the biggest percent...
Editor's Note: The previous version of this story contained correct numbers that were misinterpreted by the reporter. This version contains the correct interpretations.
Eastern’s 10th day enrollment...
Faculty Senate’s meeting Tuesday revolved around enrollment numbers on campus and what the Senate can do to continue increasing those numbers.
Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management Josh...
Corryn Brock, Editor-in-Chief
• September 10, 2021
Eastern is reporting a 0.2 percent drop in total enrollment for the Fall 2021 semester, according to a press release from Thursday afternoon. This equates to a drop of 18 students.
The university called...
A full report of 10th-day enrollment numbers showed a 3.16 percent decrease in on-campus enrollment but a total 1.57 percent increase in students.
The current on-campus head count is 4,475 students,...
Tenth-day enrollment numbers revealed a total of 7,621 students enrolled in classes at Eastern, 181 more students than the Spring 2019 semester.
Excluding high school, the students taking dual-credit...
Josh Norman, the associate vice president for enrollment management, will highlight Eastern’s marketing plan during the Council on University Planning and Budget meeting Friday.
The meeting will be...
Editor’s note: The News wanted to run this story as a sidebar to our initial story about the State of the University Address in Friday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News. In this story we explain...
Eastern will have to continue regulating its expenses this fiscal year to maintain a balanced budget.
However, for fiscal year 2020, Eastern will not be required to reduce spending from the previous fiscal...
It was not very long ago that Eastern found itself muddled in a state budget impasse that lasted 793 days from July 1 to Aug. 31, 2017.
A rallying campaign to “Fund EIU” was sparked during that...
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