/ State Sen. Jason Barickman, left, and state Rep. Dan Brady, far right, presented Larry Dietz with a proclamation marking his pending retirement at Illinois State University president.
Illinois State University s board of trustees heard from frustrated graduate student workers on Friday before it took the next step toward creating a new engineering college.
During the their quarterly meeting, trustees unanimously adopted a plan to seek approval for the new college from the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE).
Graduate student workers told the board the university should prioritize a labor contract with them before pursuing any big spending projects.
Teachers assistant Natalie Jipson said the university should take care of its underpaid and undervalued graduate workers.
you with us. and i want to put it out to all of you, and you can jump in, and the investigation by the fbi, and the director saying no evidence that they were part of a larger terror cell. what do you make of that informatio information? i will jump in here, and first let me say thoughts and pray prayers to the horrific incident and particularly my colleague hal bowman there who leaves two young daughters, but what i have heard is that we have enough information from the fbi to cover this now e globally with information that suggests that there was some ininspiration or inspire component the attack. so it would seem that what we have going forward is a real hard look at the digital
the murders of 14 people. what played out this week is terror in every sense of the word. one tof the shooters left a message pledging allegiance to isis on facebook, and the victims are being remembered by their stunned loved ones. i honestly truly believe that the world is going to be a much da darker place with one person like daniel less. good evening from new york. i m kate snow. the big headline tonight as you have heard the fbi is now investigating this shooting as an act of terrorism, and here is why. in an extraordinary statement by the fbi director. the investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. we are spending a tremendous amount of time, as you might imagine over the last 48 hours trying to understand the motives of the killers, and trying to understand every detail of their lives there. is much about this that does not make sense for even those of us who do