With No Budget, Illinois Colleges Are Hurting Badly
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via – Nonprofit Quarterly
“Nonprofit Quarterly has regularly reported on how the budget standoff in Illinois has damaged the state’s nonprofit sector. The political impasse, now approaching its second anniversary, has forced programs to be eliminated, organizations to close, financial reserves to be drained, and lines of credit (where available) to be tapped. With the mandated deadline for enacting next year’s state budget just weeks away, the state is facing the crumbling of its human services and educational infrastructure.
Reboot Illinois focused on the impact to the state’s public universities, colleges, and community college students in an in-depth look recently published by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform. In the last year that had an actual state budget, higher education received a state allocation of $4 billion, about six percent of the total Illinois state budget. For all of 2016, the limited special allocations and stopgap budget agreements that were passed to ease some of the pain gave higher education only $2.6 billion.
The strain of coping with a 35 percent reduction in state funding was particularly difficult for smaller schools that had limited reserves to draw upon. For them, working with less money meant spending less, curtailing their educational efforts.”
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