To: The Illinois State House, The Illinois State Senate, and Governor J.B. Pritzker
Save the University of Illinois!
Just Foreign Policy
Pass budgets for fiscal 2016 & 2017 immediately to stop the serious damage to our state & its flagship public university system caused by a manufactured budget crisis.
Why is this important?
I am an alumnus of the University of Illinois. I support Bernie Sanders' call for tuition-free public college. When I was a freshman at the University of Illinois in the Fall of 1982, a semester's tuition was $598. Compared to today, that's virtually free.
What Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and the Illinois legislature are doing is going in the exact opposite direction. By failing to pass a budget that assures state support for public higher education, they are threatening the future of the University of Illinois. [1]
Urge Bruce Rauner and the state legislature to pass a budget that funds public higher education without further delay by signing our petition.
References:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/opinion/higher-education-in-illinois-is-dying.html
What Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and the Illinois legislature are doing is going in the exact opposite direction. By failing to pass a budget that assures state support for public higher education, they are threatening the future of the University of Illinois. [1]
Urge Bruce Rauner and the state legislature to pass a budget that funds public higher education without further delay by signing our petition.
References:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/opinion/higher-education-in-illinois-is-dying.html