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Cash-strapped CSU cancels spring break, speeds up semester
Tuesday, Feb 23, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller * This has been confirmed…
The action is apparently designed to avoid closure before the end of spring session. I should have the full memo soon. …Adding… Here is is… 
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- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:43 pm:
“@RonSandack: I’m frustrated 2, but taking steps towards reforming IL more important than short term budget stalemate.”
Raunerites.
This move puts front and center that Tweet.
Perfectly.
“Vote Accordingly”
To the Post,
Now removing “Spring Break” because of Rauner’s personal blocking of any talk of a budget, educators and students may be out money for a trip, lose opportunities to work extra during the time off school, maybe even lose things later in the semester due to an accelerated time table.
Purposeful. Make no mistake.
Raunerites.
- Beaner - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
Wonder what will happen to the CSU Bond ratings and the value of the bonds? Maybe my pal Ken Griff at Citadel the 800 pound gorilla of bonds will have an idea. I’ll ask him sometime over a $1500 glass of wine. Wonder what the value of those empty unused brick buildings will bring? Wonder how many Union workers will lose their jobs? Winning! I get everything I want by NOT having a budget. Har har (hearty pirate laugh)
Fake Governor Rauner
- Stones - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:46 pm:
That’s going to screw up a lot of family plans.
- StateWorker - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:47 pm:
I find this so sad….unbelievable!
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
Thanks Governor Rauner AND a big thank you goes to Senator Radogno. She thinks that,um, maybe there could be fewer state universities.
- Frenchie Mendoza - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:52 pm:
If this puts their accreditation in danger, they’re in big, big, big trouble.
- siriusly - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 3:53 pm:
Stones - not so much. I think that CSU is a lot of non-traditional students. Many students are working adults, not so many “kids” who are running home for a family vacation.
- Ottawa Phil - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:01 pm:
Great idea!
- Earnest - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:02 pm:
See, it’s working! Starve the beast and the college finds away to get a semester finished in a more time and cost efficient manner! /snark
- Wensicia - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:05 pm:
This is just the first of upcoming casualties. Devastating and completely unnecessary. Happy now, Radogno?
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:07 pm:
- Ottawa Phil -
“Why?”
Please explain…
- Columbo - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:08 pm:
Stones — Agreed, many of these families/students had planned to continue in their courses, hopefully graduate, find employment, and plan for a better life. That’s what you meant,right??
- Chuckvegas Alum - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:17 pm:
Reggie’s unpopularity around EIU probably won’t hurt him all that badly on the 15th. It’s pretty much Indiana West around there excepting EIU. Many folks have harbored resentment towards academia and are poorly hiding their satisfaction in seeing its current struggle.
- Big Muddy - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:18 pm:
Here is why it’s a good idea to let Chicago State go away. 2.5% of freshman go on to graduate in four years.
http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/chicago-state-university/academic-life/graduation-and-retention/#
Time for results based education funding.
- Chuckvegas Alum - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:18 pm:
Whoops, wrong topic. Sorry.
- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:19 pm:
And this, my friends, is The Plan™.
– MrJM
- Annonin' - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:20 pm:
Smart move. Avoids paying the $uper$tars $450 million ransom and bein’ held hostage by IBHE and the Dunkin’
- Norseman - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:21 pm:
=== That’s going to screw up a lot of family plans. ===
The Governor and his purchased Solons thank you for the sacrifice of you plans in the name of ending public sector collective bargaining.
- GraduatedCollegeStudent - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:23 pm:
===Here is why it’s a good idea to let Chicago State go away. 2.5% of freshman go on to graduate in four years.
http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/chicago-state-university/academic-life/graduation-and-retention/#
Time for results based education funding.===
Of course they’ve got a bad 4 year-graduation rate. Chicago State has a heavy non-traditional student population.
There is a lot to improve with the institution, but indications are that they had been trying to turn it around before Rauner kicked the ladder out from under them.
- Cubs in '16 - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:23 pm:
This is bad but just the beginning if things stay on the current course. I wonder how many colleges/universities will be unable to operate Summer and/or Fall semester…
- sal-says - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:24 pm:
Rich has mentioned a ‘catastrophe’ to get things off the bubble.
Could THIS be it? Or another State Univ?
- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:24 pm:
B.M.,
Your “concerns” were addressed on this blog previously: https://capitolfax.com/2016/01/21/president-of-majority-black-university-responds-to-rauner-attacks/
– MrJM
- Huh? - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:25 pm:
Those students who are not graduating this year ought to be thinking about transferring to UIC or some other nearby college. CSU may not be around come fall semester.
Those who are fortunate enough to graduate this spring, congratulations on your achievement.
This is a failure of the governor. Allowing an institution of higher education to collapse without the financial aid due them is unconscionable.
- Cut Master - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:30 pm:
At 12 and 15 it’s time to suspend the fighting Illini’s basketball campaign…
- Think about it - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:35 pm:
The university prez’s salary is almost twice what is budgeted for the governor of Illinois, and he is provided a (literal) mansion at the expense of taxpayers. Horrible graduation rate, overemphasis on an expensive, unnecessary sports program, degrees of dubious value.
The history of this place reads like a contrived effort to keep people off the streets.
- Really? - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:40 pm:
@Think about it
Nevermind the gov failing to comply with the Illinois Constitution of submitting a balanced budget. Breaking the law/ noncompliance…seems more egregious.
- Hit or Miss - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:53 pm:
===CSU may not be around come fall semester.===
Will CSU be around for a summer session?
- Jack Stephens - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 4:57 pm:
@big muddy:
I guess tax dollars are better spent on prisons than education. Right?
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:01 pm:
Just squeezing the beast for the shakeout.
- Think about it - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:09 pm:
I don’t think paper from an urban diploma mill will take you very far. And it cheapens every body else’s earned degrees.
We shouldn’t be funding it.
- ILPundit - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:16 pm:
An “urban diploma mill”?
That has to be one of the most repugnant comments I’ve ever seen on this blog.
- Wensicia - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:19 pm:
==And it cheapens every body else’s earned degrees.==
No, only yours, if you actually have one.
- GraduatedCollegeStudent - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:19 pm:
Think about it-
Again, Chicago State needs to improve. That said, they had been taking steps to improve as an institution before Rauner decided to take hostages. That effort to improve merits support, not financial starvation.
- olddog - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:22 pm:
@ Think about it — 5:09
There are legitimate ways of evaluating higher education institutions, and there are organizations like the Higher Learning Commission (formerly North Central) with the expertise to do it. Playing partisan politics with the state budget in the Governor’s Office is not the way to do it.
- Enviro - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:27 pm:
Think about it @5:09 pm: Over 86% of students at Chicago State University are black. This university serves their needs and offers them the opportunity to improve their lives. Who could be against that?
- Sangamo Sam - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:35 pm:
Another domino falls. And for what? These students deserve better.
Senator McCann, Representative Jimenez: Are you still in support of the Governor’s actions to date? The primary is coming up and I have a decision to make.
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:39 pm:
Wow. This is the latter stage of a “death spiral” and, I’m guessing, unprecedented by a public university in Illinois (if not the nation).
- Rufus - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:45 pm:
@BM — why is it so important to graduate in four years? I didn’t, and I am a far better person because of it.
- Norseman - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:48 pm:
=== Senator McCann, Representative Jimenez: Are you still in support of the Governor’s actions to date? The primary is coming up and I have a decision to make. ===
Sangamo Sam, Jimenez is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raunercorp. Raunercorp has spent about $1.4 million to defeat McCann and install another sycophant. I don’t know about you, but I’m all in on Sam.
- Sangamo Sam - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 5:58 pm:
===I don’t know about you, but I’m all in on Sam.===
Yeah…Sam has a nice ring to it.
- burbanite - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 6:01 pm:
Huh? Your presume that the CSU students would qualify to get into UofI, which most probably can’t which is why they are at CSU. Plus UofI is much more expensive and without the MAP grants… This is shameful.
I think I am starting to see the plan now though. We become more attractive to employers b/c we have a uneducated work force that will work for whatever crumbs 1.4% throws their way. This is just wrong.
- AnonymousOne - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 6:11 pm:
==This is a failure of the governor=
I wonder how proud he is as other states and governors run like a well oiled machine. What would he say at a governor’s convention? LOL
- Chucktownian - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 6:31 pm:
Thanks, Illinois politicians, you just killed your first state institution of higher education.
Enough blood for you yet?
- Paul - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 6:31 pm:
To me, being educated is important. Some people go to take a few courses and some go to earn a degree. The institution of higher education is to be educated. Statistics like completion rates dilute the institution. The end result should be a well rounded educated individual; not someone with a degree on a piece of paper. I think CSU was meeting that need for a population that needed it. To be so cass as to insinuate that this college has no value is ignorant.
- jerry 101 - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 6:38 pm:
The plan is working. CSU will close and be auctioned off. I wonder if DeVry is interested in a real University campus?
- btowntruth - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 6:44 pm:
An “urban diploma mill”?
Dog whistle much?
- Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 9:17 pm:
And now the South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce is going to turn on Rauner.
- MaxfromIL - Tuesday, Feb 23, 16 @ 9:24 pm:
Thinkaboutit your comments are ignorant! I graduated from that “urban paper mill ” and I’m a CPA! Did you even graduate from any university? What are you currently doing with your life besides spewing racist filth?
- Darren72 - Wednesday, Feb 24, 16 @ 11:08 am:
CSU has a low graduation rate because they have a high transfer rate. That’s not a bad thing. I’m not saying CSU doesn’t have problems, but you have to understand how the higher education market works and what these statistics mean.