Miscellaneous
Late this spring, the Southern Illinois Universities campuses were at a crossroads. Their main campus at Carbondale had been in death spiral of low enrollment, losing many of its prospective students to their counterpart in Edwardsville. A year after the fallout of the Illinois budget impasse, Carbondale is at junction of reinvention, with some help from its president Randy Dunn, and its mayor, John "Mike" Henry. Chicago TribuneOne Illinois's coverageIllinois Economic Policy Institute Study