‘Don’t stop now’: The new Illinois budget’s impact on higher ed and college students – Illinois Newsroom

Said Mike Abrahamson, policy manager at the Partnership for College Completion, "Basically, in Illinois, right now we’re one of the few states that for the vast majority, I think 99.5%, of our funding is given out based heavily on how we gave it out last year, not necessarily on a system that considers what students adequately need to succeed. How can we turn the system from being one of the few in the country that really doesn’t have much of a system behind it to potentially leading the country in terms of equity?"
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Pat S.
2 years ago

Provide a better product before you hit up taxpayers for more money.

nixit
2 years ago

That’s because we’re too busy pumping ever growing bags of cash into SURS.

Anytime someone whines about higher ed funding and doesn’t mention pensions, ignore them.

ProzacPlease
2 years ago

Sounds like Kamala Harris – a word salad with lots of buzzwords but no real point. Except “more money for higher ed” of course.

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