From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/opinion/higher-education-in-illinois-is-dying.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
Take state-funded Monetary Award Program grants. Normally awarded by both public and private schools throughout the state, these need-based grants went unfunded for nine straight months, from July to April. Most schools temporarily floated funds to cover the gap, but the money was running dry, causing some schools to either renege on grants they had offered, or even, in the case of Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology, to ask students to pay back the aid they had already received.
Public universities across the state are laying people off at alarming rates. Chicago State University, the predominantly African-American school that has made national headlines lately for its title rapid dismantling, laid off 300 employees this spring. A full 30 percent of its budget comes from the state; it now says it may not be able to open come fall if the impasse continues. Downstate, in the hamlet of Charleston, Eastern Illinois University has laid off 261 employees. Over in Macomb, at Western Illinois University, the number is 110. Even at the University of Illinois, where financial reserves are deeper, departments have had to name the employees they will cut come Aug. 27, if the budget remains stalled. In the meantime, hiring is frozen on all three campuses — Urbana, Springfield and Chicago; only essential positions are being filled.
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