This is the first post of the each new semester for the Illinois State Collegiate Compendium, delivered on the NucleusCMS platform. ISU-prof.com is the main site through which Podcasts of college lectures in business finance and economics will be delivered to students and the general public. Each lecture will be posted as a new article.

All lectures are recorded in actual classrooms with enrolled students. The Podcasts are produced and edited by the author of this Weblog and will be available via links to mp3 files posted in the articles here; these Podcasts may also be found and downloaded through search facilities available from Apple iTunes™.

Whether you are a student of the author of this Weblog or a member of the general public interested in business and economics, you are invited to listen to, enjoy, and learn from these lectures free of charge. Although the content presented at isu-prof.com is copyrighted material of Dark Wraith Publishing, you may share any or all of these lectures provided you do so without charge and with full and clear attribute to the original producer and owner of the material, Dark Wraith Publishing, and its proprietor, known here by the online name "Professor C."