The department contracts with community colleges to provide vocational programs inside state prisons, while community colleges are responsible for the cost of academic post-secondary programming, for which they receive reimbursement from the Illinois Community College Board. But state investment in community colleges has dropped dramatically over the last two decades.
State investment in community colleges has dropped was the same reason state investment in state universities has dropped: PENSIONS. SURS covers community college employees too.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
State investment in community colleges has dropped was the same reason state investment in state universities has dropped: PENSIONS. SURS covers community college employees too.