The Illinois Board of Higher Education recently announced it was pausing all activity related to DEI-related scholarship programs and planned to review the matter with lawmakers. During an Illinois House Appropriations and Higher Education Committee hearing, University of Illinois system President Timothy Killeen said the system could lose up to $120 million, but he isn’t overly concerned about the prospect.
I guess if U of I can shrug off a loss of 120M, they don’t really need the money in the first place, something many people suspect about them and many universities.
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.
I guess if U of I can shrug off a loss of 120M, they don’t really need the money in the first place, something many people suspect about them and many universities.