The following is an excerpt of a story published by The State Journal-Register on May 13, 2023.
"For the vast majority of the 700-plus students graduating from the University of Illinois Springfield Saturday, they spent much of their time at the Springfield campus learning the skills that they need to succeed in their careers and building the kind of lifelong relationships that only college could provide.
Brayden Bledsoe, on the other hand, spent his two years as a UIS student taking online courses in public administration back home in Galesburg, Illinois. It was the online courses that made the school so attractive to him after he graduated from Carl Sandburg College in his hometown."