
Chad Tate
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Tully Blanchard is trying to stay clear of the barbed wire as Dusty Rhodes pushes his him toward the sharp steel edges.













EIU is the largest employer in its rural 17,000 resident town by a country mile. The decline of college enrollment is going to crush so many viable small towns in this country. It’s really sad.

wow, so that's why @niuloradotaft in Oregon, IL closed so abruptly. article from January 2025. Fast forward to later this month...a non for profit, Together for Taft, is hosting the first event on the campus on April 25 after the campus closed late 2024.


In Spring of 2016, the on campus enrollment at Eastern Illinois University was 6,991. In Spring of 2026, it was 3,660. That's a decline of 48% in just ten years. This is happening right now to dozens of directional universities throughout the Midwest.
















