What to know about an effort to make college in Illinois more affordable – WBEZ (Chicago)

Legislators want to shift the financial responsibility for educating and training Illinois residents from students back to the state. The hope is that, in a decade, tuition rates at places like Governors State University in Chicago’s south suburbs and University of Illinois Springfield won’t leave students hobbled with debt — or shut out of college altogether.
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debtsor
1 year ago

Yes, lowering standards and giving it away for free might improve attendance, but at the cost of destroying the integrity of the institution….Most Illinois public universities are in the doom loop. Meanwhile, the state’s best and brightest are attending every other Big 10 and SEC school except U of I. But again, this is a feature, not a bug. The state doesn’t need some right-wing or centrist leaning college student polluting the air at our universities with their wrong think. “Let them go to the SEC” is the philosophy. I know people now with children applying for college and these… Read more »

Where's Mine ???
1 year ago

Did the machine hire Ralph Martire /CTBA to draft AEFFPUA just like they did with EBF?

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