anvi
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2016, 01:19:09 PM » |
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Well, the impasse is making itself felt in state universities. The one I work at is not only taking back funds already reserved for its colleges and borrowing money from its sister-campus to cover operating expenses. Its civil service employees are often having to hold off on physician appointments because doctors are beginning to refuse service to insurance plans that won't pay out immediately. One state school may have to close its doors by March 1 and my institution along with another institution in the area have a very uncertain future after July 1. At the moment, the governor's CoS just writes emails chastising our provosts and chancellors and boards for not raising more of their own money when we're down to between 20%-25% of our budget from state funds to begin with. On top of it, even after a budget is passed, it takes several months for state appropriations to find their way into school accounts. Not really wild, therefore, about the idea of delaying till the summer and a repeat of last year or even worse, till the next election. Madigan and Rauner need to get in a room and work out a deal, like adults who do what their jobs are, namely to pass a state budget. But they're not doing it, because there really isn't much pressure on them or incentive for them to do so right now.
Toying with ideas about a higher-ed march on Springfield. it's not like it would be similar to teachers' strikes in recent years or anything--we wouldn't be striking, we'd be asking legislators and the governor to do their jobs. I'm not the protesting type at all, but this is absurd.
Illinois ticks me off.
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