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Students walk through South Quad for dinner in South Quad Dining on EIU's campus Monday. This semester, there are 438 less students on campus than last spring.

EIU spring on-campus enrollment down 9.77%

Alli Hausman, Managing Editor March 26, 2025

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 athletic director Tom Michael spoke about the NCAA settlement and how Eastern will have to pay $260,000 a year for the next ten years during the first board of trustees meeting of the year on Thursday.

Eastern Board of Trustees brainstorm campus changes

Patrick Schmitz, Assistant Photo Editor January 24, 2025

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...

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On-campus enrollment down 7%, administration feeling positive

Alli Hausman, Managing Editor October 15, 2024

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...

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Eastern’s spring-to-spring enrollment remains steady

Audra Gullquist, Assistant News Editor February 15, 2024

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...

Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management Josh Norman presents at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting. Norman’s presentation highlighted Eastern’s enrollment statistics with comparisons to 2020's numbers.

Faculty Senate talks enrollment, recruitment

Luke Taylor, News Editor October 26, 2021

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...

Eastern student count shows 0.2 percent drop

Eastern student count shows 0.2 percent drop

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...

Enrollment: on-campus total down 3.16 percent

Corryn Brock, News Editor January 31, 2020

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,...

10th-Day: Eastern sees spring-to-spring increase

Corryn Brock, News Editor January 30, 2020

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...

CUPB to hear enrollment, marketing updates

Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter October 31, 2019

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...

Dual credit increases at Eastern

Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter October 6, 2019

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 President David Glassman delivers his State of the University address in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Thursday afternoon. Glassman spoke multiple times of the growing status of Eastern, largely in part to a growth in enrollment and a stronger state budget situation.

Glassman addresses state of university, underlines successes, goals

Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter October 3, 2019

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...

STAFF EDITORIAL: Eastern is in an upswing

Staff Editorial October 3, 2019

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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