More than 60 College of Business students gathered in the Public Affairs Center on Oct. 4 for “Leading from the Middle,” a seminar on middle management taught by adjunct professor Kevin Purcell. A  prominent  UIS  alumnus, Purcell retired as the Senior Manager of Organization Developme...

When one thinks about the topic of LGBTQ hate crimes, unless that person is well-versed in LGBTQ literature, legislation, and news, he or she may be unfamiliar with the name and tragic story of Matthew Shepard. This is one of the primary reasons why the “Twenty Years Later: A Conversation about The Lif...

    In a cold, cruel world full of impermanence and loss, imagination and elegance are powerful weapons to arm the human mind with. John Keats expressed this idea in his exceptional poem “Fancy.” He pointed out that beautiful things (of the intangible variety, such as ideas and fan...

The C-SPAN bus paid a visit to the University of Illinois Springfield campus Wednesday, Sept. 19, as part of its 50 Capitals Tour. Illinois  was  the  41st  stop  on  the  tour, which  started  last  November.  C-SPAN  is  a nonpartisan...

It was as a student at Fisk University in Tennessee that Diane Nash had the first taste of the overt segregation that would lead her to become prominently involved in the civil rights movement.    Growing up in the South Side of Chicago, it was definitely segregated—but not like the sou...