News Progress

•May 4, 2022• Millikin University will welcome athletes and loyal supporters of women’s athletic teams back to campus May 13-15, for a celebration weekend to honor 50 years of women’s athletics at Millikin. Millikin’s Women in Athletics celebration will be full of events that Millikin University 50 Years of Women Athleticsallow the university to recognize athletes as part of a Big Blue tradition of trailblazers. Millikin University has a long history of nurturing lives of meaning and value in its students. It was important to the university that its female students be validated when they expressed their desire to receive … Read More

•May 4, 2022• In Illinois last year, approximately 103 people were killed or injured in grade crossing and trespassing incidents. Illinois Operation Lifesaver works to prevent these needless incidents from happening through public awareness campaigns, education programs and free rail safety presentations. Operation Lifesaver, the non-profit rail safety education and awareness organization dedicated to reducing collisions, fatalities and injuries at highway-rail crossings and preventing trespassing on or near railroad tracks, is observing its 50th anniversary in 2022. Over the past five decades, Operation Lifesaver and its safety partners have helped reduce railroad crossing incidents by 84 percent across the nation. … Read More

Dear Editor: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As a volunteer and advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this month I am asking everyone to join us and demand #MoreForMentalHealth. As a survivor of a son’s suicide, I can personally attest to how critical it is to take every effort to educate everyone about the dramatic consequences of a suicide, to raise everyone’s awareness levels to find opportunity to intervene and save a life whenever possible. … Read More