Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Reducing the outrageous cost of in-state tuition would be a good place to start when they are complaining about the costs.
Have read that multiple deans at U of I make $1.5 million. Why would that be? What is the value to the university and taxpayer of such a large sum? The huge salaries and pensions for administrators , same questions. These things contribute to tuition higher than it need be. Perhaps all the foreign students paying full ride or above, taking spots IL citizens could have had, are needed to fund these extravagant salaries and pensions? Never consideration of the cost side.
Fundamentally, these low tier colleges really don’t accomplish much other than provide jobs for mediocre educators and layers of administrative bloat. Oh, and a bunch of interest from the debt necessary to “earn” one of these degrees. The whole higher ed system needs to be rejiggered – in a world on the cusp of AI integration, how do these colleges plan to help these students NOT be replaced by an algorithm?
These schools are working as intended. They produce the aggrieved “revolutionaries” who incurred piles of debt to secure a degree that gets them a job at Starbucks.
The students were taught that the system is rigged against them. When they graduate and go out into the real world, they soon find out how little value that degree has. This convinces them their professors were right. The evil capitalists are to blame!
The educators and administrators bank ever-increasing salaries and pensions. The students never figure out it was the school system that screwed them. They vote 80% for Zohran Mamdani.
Democraps and Illinois – – Sheesh – These people are arguing for more give-a-ways and tax payer funded programs to cover the out of control cost of a higher education. They aren’t demanding the schools fix their cost problem and get in line….nope, just figure out more ways to take money from tax payers and give it to college students. A workable loan program to give that little help (for serious students) that might be needed is different. All too often state of Illinois “higher education” schools are filled with “students” who have no business in college, but, get the… Read more »
Yes, and don’t forget about the unmarketable or minimally marketable degrees. Of course, these colleges won’t emphasize or even mention the unmarketable aspect, because that would mean less tuition revenue and less instructors and staff needed.
Many of these universities have millions of dollars to help students. Yes our family knows how hard it is, we have four children, all went through and received a four year degrees, in useful degrees. both of us are delivery drivers, high school educated. We got the help we could, we didn’t cry ball about what we did not receive. All of our children have payed back all of their loan. Ill bet this person is getting government cheese for this Edtrust business. I wonder what salary she is pulling in? Of course it all Trumps fault