Check out why Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale received a D+ grade in our Report Card below.
Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale is a a public research university located in Carbondale, Illinois with an undergraduate enrollment size of 8,147. The university is located in a small rural town. In Carbondale, students can visit various parks and recreation spots, historic sites and museums, or go shopping at several shopping centers. Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale has 18 fraternities and seven sororities for students interested in Greek life. The university&#8217;s official mascots are Brown Dawg and Gray Dawg. Members of the Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale community are known as &#8220;Salukis&#8221; (i.e. a particular dog breed).
Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale has over 200 degree programs. Notable former students include former NBA player Walt &#8220;Clyde&#8221; Frazier, actor and comedian Jim Belushi, and former NFL running back Brandon Jacobs.

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “D” grade by <a href="https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/2827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Will They Learn?</a> which takes into account the university’s educational prowess. Factors include composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics, and natural science.
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What Will They Learn? Academic Score

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “D+” grade for the Average Salary of Recent Graduates. As of 2021, alumni with 0-5 years of experience after graduating from Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale with a bachelor’s degree make $53,000 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale</a>.
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Average Salary of Recent Graduates

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “C-” grade for the Average Salary of Recent Graduates. As of 2021, alumni with 0-5 years of experience after graduating from Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale with a bachelor’s degree make $95,800 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale</a>.
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Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “D-” grade for the Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private). In 2020, 67% of graduates accumulated student debt from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a>.
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Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private)

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “C+” grade for the Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private). In 2020, graduates accumulated $30,391 of debt on average from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a>.
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Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private)

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff. The <a href="https://equity.siu.edu/workshops.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a> doesn&#8217;t appear to require or encourage any Equity, Inclusion, or Diversity trainings.
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Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “C” grade for having a Bias Reporting System but not a Bias Response Team. Bias Reporting Systems and Response Teams are systems or teams of faculty, staff, and sometimes law enforcement.
According to <a href="https://speechfirst.org/bias-reporting-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeechFirst</a>, students are “encouraged to report ‘bias incidents’ to these boards (or teams) in the name of inclusion and tolerance, but it’s often unclear what the school considers ‘bias’ in the first place. Overly broad or vague definitions of bias put all kinds of speech at risk of being reported – even unpopular speech which is protected by the First Amendment.”
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Bias Reporting System or Bias Response Team

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an “A” grade for the Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs. Out of a list of 20 clubs (10 from each side), <a href="https://siu.presence.io/organizations/list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university</a> has one right-leaning club compared to one left-leaning club. The one right-leaning club is Turning Point USA. The one left-leaning club is Southern Illinois University Young Democratic Socialists of America.
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Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an “A” grade due to having an active and thriving <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA_SIU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turning Point USA chapter</a>. Unfortunately, universities and Student Governments around the country often use their power to prevent certain clubs from operating on campus.
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Denied Turning Point USA Chapter

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a &#8220;D&#8221; grade for In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants. <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://admissions.siu.edu/apply/undocumented.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Undocumented</a> and DACA students can receive in-state tuition through <a href="https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois Public Act 93-0007</a>.
&#8220;Undocumented Illinois Residents and IL DACA students can qualify for residency through IL Public Act 93-0007. To be considered, students should complete an Affidavit of Intent to File an Application to Become a Permanent Resident of the United States and submit the official high school transcript upon graduation.&#8221;
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In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an “A” grade for the Amount of Foreign Funding Received. According to <a href="https://sites.ed.gov/foreigngifts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Foreign Gift Reporting</a>, the total amount of foreign funding the university has received is $34.15 per current undergraduate student. Oftentimes, foreign parties will convey their influence by funding certain courses, activities, professors, and organizations on campus. In certain cases, universities must abide by restrictions dictated by foreign parties to receive funding. In addition, there have been <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-universities-took-billions-in-unreported-foreign-funds-u-s-finds-11603226953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that claim that universities underreport foreign funding. The figure above only takes into account reported foreign funding.
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Amount of Foreign Funding Received

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an &#8220;F&#8221; grade for Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students. The <a href="https://catalog.siu.edu/core-curriculum/requirements.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a> requires students to take three credits of courses within its &#8220;Multicultural/Diversity: Improving Human Relations&#8221; category as part of its University Core Curriculum.
Examples of courses in this category include, but are not limited to,
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<li>&#8220;Language, Gender, and Power&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Psychology of Gender in Diverse Contexts&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Philosophy and Diversity: Gender, Race and Class&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Language, Gender, and Power&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Picturing Difference: Identity and Representation in Visual Culture&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes. The university has one segregated convocation (<a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://smrc.siu.edu/lgbtq/lavender-graduation/#:~:text=Lavender%20Graduation%20will%20take%20place,of%20122%20graduates%20and%20guests." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lavender</a> Graduation).
The university has no segregated classes or dormitories.
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Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an “A” grade for Protests and Canceling Speakers. Since 2021, no instances of protests, speech cancelations, or violence/attempted violence against speakers have occurred.
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Protests and Canceling Speakers

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for Mask and Vaccine Mandates. The university has no <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://siu.edu/coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> guidelines.
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Mask and Vaccine Mandates

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “B-” grade for the Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees. According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Center (<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPEDS</a>), as of 2020, 8.94% of the current undergraduate student population graduate with a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) degree. Across the United States, students who graduate with STEM degrees tend to earn more on average than their other student counterparts.
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Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “B-” grade for Crime Rates in University City or Town. According to the <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, the Carbondale, Illinois violent crime rate was 429.97 per 100,000 people in 2018, higher than the 2018 national average of 380.56 per 100,000 people. While campus safety is of utmost importance, it is also pertinent to consider the crime rates of the surrounding town or city as students often tend to venture off campus, especially after their freshman year.
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Crime Rates in University City or Town

Southern Illinois University &#8211; Carbondale receives a “C” grade for Required Western Civilization Courses for Students. Students have <a href="https://catalog.siu.edu/core-curriculum/requirements.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">options</a> to take the following courses within the University Core Curriculum Requirements:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;The Western Literary Tradition&#8221;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;The Origins of Modern America, 1492-1877&#8221;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;Elementary Classical Greek&#8221;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;Germanic and Norse Mythology&#8221;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;Introduction to American Politics&#8221;</li>
</ul>
However, these courses can be bypassed in favor of courses unrelated to Western Civilization.
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 Required Western Civilization Courses for Students

Check out why Southern Illinois University - Carbondale received a D+ grade in our Report Card below.

Southern Illinois University - Carbondale is a a public research university located in Carbondale, Illinois with an undergraduate enrollment size of 8,147. The university is located in a small rural town. In Carbondale, students can visit various parks and recreation spots, historic sites and museums, or go shopping at several shopping centers. Southern Illinois University - Carbondale has 18 fraternities and seven sororities for students interested in Greek life. The university's official mascots are Brown Dawg and Gray Dawg. Members of the Southern Illinois University - Carbondale community are known as "Salukis" (i.e. a particular dog breed).

Southern Illinois University - Carbondale has over 200 degree programs. Notable former students include former NBA player Walt "Clyde" Frazier, actor and comedian Jim Belushi, and former NFL running back Brandon Jacobs.

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MingQing Xiao is an <a href="https://math.siu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/xiao.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applied math professor at Southern Illinois University.</a> He specializes in partial differential equations, control theory, dynamical systems, and computational science.
On April 21, 2021, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mathematics-professor-and-university-researcher-indicted-grant-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced that a federal grand jury had returned an indictment</a> charging the professor with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. According to the press release:
“Xiao allegedly applied for and received National Science Foundation (NSF) grant funds for a project set to run from 2019 to 2022 without informing NSF about another, overlapping grant he had already received from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China.” 
Additionally:
“Xiao also allegedly failed to inform NSF that he was on the payroll of Shenzhen University, a public university in Guangdong Province, and that he had already committed to teaching and conducting research at Shenzhen University from 2018 to 2023.” 
The release also states that NSF questioned Xiao about any current or pending funding from “worldwide sources” and the indictment accuses him of falsely reporting to NSF that he had nothing else to disclose.
In October 2021, <a href="https://thesouthern.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/feds-pin-additional-charges-on-siu-math-professor-accused-of-scheming-for-grant-dollars/article_ce9c58d4-94a9-5f11-9d87-1db1b8c44782.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">additional charges were levied against Professor Xiao</a>, including tax fraud and failure to disclose a foreign bank account.
On May 5, 2022, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-professor-convicted-failing-report-chinese-bank-account-2022-05-05/">Reuters</a> reported that Xiao was convicted of failing to disclose a Chinese bank account on his 2017 to 2019 tax returns but was cleared of concealing his ties to China while seeking federal grant funding. The jury acquitted Xiao of making a false statement in connection with a NSF grant proposal and U.S. Judge Staci Yandle “found prosecutors failed to prove two related wire fraud charges.”
In September 2022, Professor Xiao was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-math-professor-gets-probation-not-prison-china-initiative-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced to 1 year of probation and given a $600 fine.</a> Xiao has been on paid administrative leave from SIUC since his indictment in April 2021. As of publication, he is still on leave.
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You may contact Southern Illinois University by phone at (618)-453-2121. 
Published &#8211; September 30, 2022

MingQing Xiao is an <a href="https://math.siu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/xiao.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applied math professor at Southern Illinois University.</a> He specializes in partial differential equations, control theory, dynamical systems, and computational science.

On April 21, 2021, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mathematics-professor-and-university-researcher-indicted-grant-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced that a federal grand jury had returned an indictment</a> charging the professor with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. According to the press release:
“Xiao allegedly applied for and received National Science Foundation (NSF) grant funds for a project set to run from 2019 to 2022 without informing NSF about another, overlapping grant he had already received from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China.” 
Additionally:
“Xiao also allegedly failed to inform NSF that he was on the payroll of Shenzhen University, a public university in Guangdong Province, and that he had already committed to teaching and conducting research at Shenzhen University from 2018 to 2023.” 
The release also states that NSF questioned Xiao about any current or pending funding from “worldwide sources” and the indictment accuses him of falsely reporting to NSF that he had nothing else to disclose.

In October 2021, <a href="https://thesouthern.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/feds-pin-additional-charges-on-siu-math-professor-accused-of-scheming-for-grant-dollars/article_ce9c58d4-94a9-5f11-9d87-1db1b8c44782.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">additional charges were levied against Professor Xiao</a>, including tax fraud and failure to disclose a foreign bank account.

On May 5, 2022, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-professor-convicted-failing-report-chinese-bank-account-2022-05-05/">Reuters</a> reported that Xiao was convicted of failing to disclose a Chinese bank account on his 2017 to 2019 tax returns but was cleared of concealing his ties to China while seeking federal grant funding. The jury acquitted Xiao of making a false statement in connection with a NSF grant proposal and U.S. Judge Staci Yandle “found prosecutors failed to prove two related wire fraud charges.”

In September 2022, Professor Xiao was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-math-professor-gets-probation-not-prison-china-initiative-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced to 1 year of probation and given a $600 fine.</a> Xiao has been on paid administrative leave from SIUC since his indictment in April 2021. As of publication, he is still on leave.

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You may contact Southern Illinois University by phone at (618)-453-2121. 
Published - September 30, 2022

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