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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognizes Southern Illinois University, Carbondale as an elite institution of higher education, based on breadth of research and academic programs. Carnegie ranks SIUC among the top 5 percent of all U.S. higher education institutions for research."

Various internal funding programs help faculty establish research programs, fund graduate assistantships, win external grants, and travel to conferences. REACH (Research-Enriched Academic Challenge), our undergraduate research program, offers small grants and other opportunities for undergraduates to gain research expertise by working alongside faculty mentors. The Office of Research Development and Administration (ORDA) provides grant-related services to faculty and students and has many online resources. More information about research at SIUC can be found at the SIUC Research Profile.

The Global Media Research Center develops core group of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the MCMA and across campus to conduct global media research; organizes visiting scholar and media artists lecture-program; seeks out relevant national and international partnerships; hosts occasional visiting scholars; and fosters international exchange opportunities for faculty.

The Center brings together Communication with other disciplines, and connects researchers nationally and internationally, in pursuit of fresh and rigorously evaluated information about global media operations, strategies and trends. This work also involves continual interface with creative media artists, professionals and activists.

The Center further sets itself the task of disseminating this knowledge to the interested public as well as to specialist researchers.

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute brings together experts to discuss societal challenges and develop action plans to affect state and national policies.

Paul Simon established the bipartisan institute to maintain this fundamental difference from virtually all other organizations of its kind. It does so by asking two important questions:

1. Can anything be accomplished by our taking on this project? and; 2. Is our involvement differentiated from other organizations' work on this subject?

By asking these questions, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute determines its potential to make a real difference in society before taking on the responsibility to address any given issue.

On Thursday, April 16th, Administrators celebrated the completion of Morris Libraryís basement and first through fifth floors with a ceremony that included a ribbon cutting and a book signing. More than 300 people, predominately community members, filled the basement of the library for the event. Many of those in the crowd were the subjects of administratorsí repeated thanks throughout the ceremony.

ìIím relieved. A tremendous amount of planning went into this,î said David Carlson, dean of Library Affairs. ìFor events like this to go off cleanly and well and in organized fashion it takes the work of a lot of people, so my staff did just a great job.î Carlson said the rededication should include all of those involved in the renovation process, including the students.

Brandon Smith, a senior from Centralia studying radio-television and speaker at the event, said he was honored to be involved in the ceremony and hoped students will take advantage of the diversity of learning that the library provides. ìI believe I speak for the majority of SIUC students when it comes to feeling joy and excitement to be able to have access to the wonderful study and research facility that Morris Library has now become,î he said.

University Museum holds and displays, in rotation, more than 60,000 artifacts in the arts, humanities and sciences, with a museum studies program. The museum also presents outside exhibits. The University Museum collects, preserves, researches, displays and educates using a diverse and engaging range of artifacts and objects and educational methods. The Museum illuminates the local and world connections behind the arts, humanities, and sciences.

The University Museum has been a repository of artifacts since Dr. Cyrus Thomas was commissioned to begin collecting for a museum by the first board of Trustees of Southern Illinois Normal University some time before 1871. The American Association of Museums has accredited the University Museum since 1977. The Museum's 135th Anniversary Year was in 2009.

WSIU Public Broadcasting operates two analog and eight digital public television channels, three public radio stations, a web site, local TV and FM production units, and education and community outreach department, and the Southern Illinois Radio Information Service (SIRIS).