higher-ed funding

NIU president Lisa Freeman says, right now, the way Illinois public universities are funded…doesn’t make much sense.“We need a funding formula that's rational, that considers the size of the institution, the mission of the institution and the type of students that the institution serves.”A new bill would create a formula like that. How would it work? And how much money would it pump into universities?

Illinois K-12 schools are funded through an equity-based formula. Higher education has no formula at all. The state wants that to change, but what could that look like?

Illinois lawmakers have approved a $42 billion budget that now awaits Governor J.B. Pritzker’s pen.State Representative Jeff Keicher, a Sycamore…

Kelly Olson knows college campuses can be an overly-complex web of offices and services. She’s the assistant dean of students at Northern Illinois…