These are minor, but egads, the student insurance fee increases from $705.00 to $815.00 per half year or $1,630.00 per full year which represents a 15.6% increase.wiu712 wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:12 am The Western Board of Trustees on Friday is scheduled to act on increases to fees, room and board, and student health insurance.
Student fees for a full academic year on the Macomb campus, based on 30 credit hours, would go up $21.90 to a total of $2,725.50.
On the Quad Cities campus, the full year total would go up $6 to $746.40.
The proposed room and board increase is $50 per academic year.
Updates to faculty layoff plan and other stuff
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Tere North
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Tere North
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I highly doubt it's Obama. Since most students should still be on their parents coverage, and technically everyone is supposed to have insurance anyway, who would want to buy school insurance, but they include it anyway, including forcing you to carry it if you are an athlete, an international student, or don't have what they think is a good enough policy aka a low enough deductible. Heck, the $1630 you have to pay for this is more than most folks deductible.
$2.2 million more in budget cuts could be coming to the SIU Medical School in Springfield.
More fallout from the State's budget impasse.
The $2.2 million in additional cuts that are being considered for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine related to the on-going state budget crisis could lead to an undetermined number of layoffs, the medical school's dean says.
"We're really going to try to avoid anything massive," dean and provost Dr. Jerry Kruse said Thursday.
Randy Dunn, president of the Carbondale-based Southern Illinois University system, sent a letter to the university community Wednesday that outlined a minimum of $30 million in operating-cost reductions that are being considered for the Carbondale campus for the fiscal year beginning July 1, and $2.2 million for the Springfield-based medical school.
Pay for SIU faculty doctors has been cut 5 percent, many positions vacated through attrition haven't been filed, and several departments have been re-structured to become more efficient.
At least five to eight SIU surgeons have resigned over the past 20 months because of the budget uncertainty.
And there are indications that an increasing number of new doctors graduating from SIU and the University of Illinois College of Medicine's campus are deciding to leave Illinois, maybe for good.
More fallout from the State's budget impasse.
The $2.2 million in additional cuts that are being considered for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine related to the on-going state budget crisis could lead to an undetermined number of layoffs, the medical school's dean says.
"We're really going to try to avoid anything massive," dean and provost Dr. Jerry Kruse said Thursday.
Randy Dunn, president of the Carbondale-based Southern Illinois University system, sent a letter to the university community Wednesday that outlined a minimum of $30 million in operating-cost reductions that are being considered for the Carbondale campus for the fiscal year beginning July 1, and $2.2 million for the Springfield-based medical school.
Pay for SIU faculty doctors has been cut 5 percent, many positions vacated through attrition haven't been filed, and several departments have been re-structured to become more efficient.
At least five to eight SIU surgeons have resigned over the past 20 months because of the budget uncertainty.
And there are indications that an increasing number of new doctors graduating from SIU and the University of Illinois College of Medicine's campus are deciding to leave Illinois, maybe for good.
Absent State Budget, SIU's President Outlines Dramatic Reduction Plan.
From Tri-States Public Radio WIUM-FM:
http://tspr.org/post/absent-state-budge ... &utm_term=
From Tri-States Public Radio WIUM-FM:
http://tspr.org/post/absent-state-budge ... &utm_term=
WIU Board of Trustees approves increases to student fees, room and board, student health insurance.
From Saturday's McDonough County Voice:
http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/news/2017 ... -insurance
From Saturday's McDonough County Voice:
http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/news/2017 ... -insurance
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brewer2125
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Tere North wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:51 pmI highly doubt it's Obama. Since most students should still be on their parents coverage, and technically everyone is supposed to have insurance anyway, who would want to buy school insurance, but they include it anyway, including forcing you to carry it if you are an athlete, an international student, or don't have what they think is a good enough policy aka a low enough deductible. Heck, the $1630 you have to pay for this is more than most folks deductible.
Actually, thank Mike Madigan, who has been at the controls for years and has driven this state into it's current financial situation (and no one please start with the Rauner garbage - this debacle started long before Rauner was around).
Mike Madigan has been in power for a very long time. However, the State has always had a budget until Rauner arrived in Jan 2015.brewer2125 wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:32 pmActually, thank Mike Madigan, who has been at the controls for years and has driven this state into it's current financial situation (and no one please start with the Rauner garbage - this debacle started long before Rauner was around).
If there is no budget in place by May 31, look for "shoes" to be dropping all over the state.
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On a very positive note, take a look at the twitter "tweets" coming from the "Discover Western" program yesterday. The crowd was
gi-normous!
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gi-normous!
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I don't care what a person's politics are, Madigan and Rouner - one is as bad as the other. Neither should ever be voted to remain in office.