Governor Signs Stop-Gap Higher Ed Funding Bill

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Published on April 25 2016 4:15 pm
Last Updated on April 25 2016 4:16 pm
Written by Greg Sapp

Governor Bruce Rauner Monday signed a stop-gap funding bill for higher education.

(EIU PRESIDENT DAVID GLASSMAN)

Eastern Illinois University President David Glassman notified his campus constituency that the funds will be utilized to cover some of the costs of the current fiscal year that ends June 30. The message from Glassman indicates that EIU will receive about $12.5 million, about one-third of what the university received the previous year as its state operating budget. The funds will also cover partial funding for the Monetary Award Program.

Glassman thanked those students, faculty members and other employees for "making their voices heard" in Charleston, Springfield and elsewhere throughout the state to help get this first measure passed, and encouraged them to keep it up.