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.

“The home run by Ferguson was one of the coolest things I’ve seen here at EIU, and it couldn’t have come at a better time because we really needed that,” Anderson said. The home run was Ferguson’s ...