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UIC Center Champions Exercise for People with Disabilities
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Center on Recreational Technologies and Exercise Physiology for people with disabilities has won a $4.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to continue operations another five years.
UIS Wins Major National Award for Online Teaching, Learning
The University of Illinois at Springfield has won a major national award for Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching & Learning Programming from the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C).
WUIS Listeners Pledge Record Amount
Listeners of public radio WUIS-WIPA pledged more than $142,000 in support during the station’s fall membership drive that ended at 9 a.m. on October 19. More than 1,200 listeners made pledges during the nine-day drive.
University of Illinois Brilliant Futures Campaign Edges Past Half-way Point of $2.25 Billion Goal
One of the largest fund drives in higher education and the largest in the University of Illinois’s 140-year history has passed the halfway point in gift commitments as of August 31, 2007.
Gifts to Benefit Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Springfield Campuses of University of Illinois
Seventeen private gifts totaling about $33.5 million earmarked for University of Illinois programs at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield were announced today (Friday, Sept. 28) at the U of I Foundation’s 72nd Annual Meeting.
U of I and Foundation Receive $190.5 Million in Private Gifts During Past Year
Total Giving Increases 3 Percent to U of I; Gifts from Alumni and Friends Up $18.8 Million or 9% Over Previous Year; Total Endowment Grows by Nearly 23 Percent in Year
University of Illinois Receives $13.3 million Increase From State
The University of Illinois will receive a $13.3 million increase in its base state appropriation of $720.5 million in the 2008 fiscal year budget Governor Rod Blagojevich signed Thursday.
UI Ranks No. 38 in Latest Magazine List
Princeton holds the top spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the eighth straight year the private, New Jersey school has either tied or held the top slot outright. The University of Illinois came in at 38.
Hinsdale Couple Makes Second Major Gift to University of Illinois
The University of Illinois Foundation has announced a gift of $500,000 from Jerry and Ann Nerad of Hinsdale to support the Cline Center for Democracy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Urbana-Champaign campus.
University of Illinois Announces Record $100 Million Campaign Gift Commitment to Support Science and Engineering at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois announced a record $100 million gift commitment from alumnus Thomas Siebel during the kick-off of the largest fundraising effort in the 140-year history of the University.