Chicago students and workers joined protesters around the nation Thursday for what organizers are calling the “March 4th Day of Action” for higher education.
Nearly 200 students and faculty members rallied at the University of Illinois-Chicago to demand that the university not “balance the budget on the backs of students, faculty and the community” through...
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Students, Faculty Protest University of Illinois Budget Cuts
Experts Suggest Changes to Legislative Scholarships
Efforts to abolish the century-old Illinois General Assembly scholarship program have proven unsuccessful in the past, but outside of eliminating it altogether, higher education and financial aid experts say there are ways to improve it.
They recommend a number of changes, from developing a consistent set of standards in choosing the winners to lawmakers being...
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No Method to the Madness: State Scholarships Award Some Students More than Others
Gretchen Watson got an undergraduate degree and her master’s, too, thanks to the Illinois General Assembly scholarship program. For seven years, Watson, now an elementary school teacher, didn’t have to worry about tuition bills at Northeastern University.
Mary Kate McLoughlin, the daughter of a Chicago precinct captain who works for state comptroller Dan Hynes and...
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Evasive State Legislators Dodge Questions About Scholarships
The phone calls started Sept. 15.
The journalist wanted to know how Sen. Mattie Hunter (D-Chicago) selects students in her Bronzeville district to receive free tuition at 12 Illinois universities.
A team of Columbia College Chicago reporters, in collaboration with Illinois Statehouse News, contacted the offices of all 177 members of the Illinois General Assembly to...
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Clout or Coincidence? Some Legislators Keep General Assembly Scholarships All in the Family
The Illinois General Assembly scholarships have become a family affair for dozens of siblings who’ve secured tens of thousands of dollars in free tuition to the state’s public universities since 2003.
There’s just one main requirement in the century-old state law that created the legislative scholarship program: Applicants must live in the awarding lawmaker’s district....
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College students to see ‘painful’ scholarship, grant cuts without fully-funded state budget
June 29, 2009 – The Illinois Student Assistance Commission announced Friday thousands of college students are facing a loss of $275 million in grants and scholarships if state lawmakers do not pass a fully-funded budget by month’s end.
Impending cuts would affect approximately 40,000 Illinois students currently receiving support from the Monetary Assistance Program, or...
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