August 22, 2010
Colleges Help Midwestern States Hold On to Jobs and Residents
Greg Latza
Jack Warner, chief executive officer of the South Dakota Board of Regents, has pushed the state's higher-education system to focus more intensely on adult education.
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Greg Latza
Jack Warner, chief executive officer of the South Dakota Board of Regents, has pushed the state's higher-education system to focus more intensely on adult education.
Bad news about budgets has become common for Midwestern colleges during the recession, but the situation in Illinois is among the most difficult. There lawmakers cut $100-million from the higher-education budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1.
Even worse, as many as six of the state’s nine public universities may have to borrow money to cover a portion of the $464-million they were appropriated in the 2010 budget but that the state had not yet provided by the end of
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