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Cuts costing University Extension staff, visibiltiy
Fewer state dollars are funneling into the University, and it’s costing University outreach and networking programs a lot more than money
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UI Board to lay out 2005 budget plans
The University will present its $78.9 million budget request for next year at the University Board of Trustees meeting in Springfield today.
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Building maintenance put on hold
Although the University plans a $52 million project to renovate all of Lincoln Hall, the improvements — like others on campus — are stalled because of budget cuts that took away the needed state dollars.
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Library feels brunt of cuts
The year’s library budget has been reduced by about $1,152,000 and 10 percent of the staff has been cut either through retirement or attrition
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Miss. Busy
Veronica Uwumarogie, senior in business, is close to her family and is proud of her Nigerian heritage that gave her a last name that means “death comes to everyone, even kings.” |
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Six ISG committee members removed
Citing a “suspicious” election process, ISG President Marcia Fuentes tentatively removed all six committee chairs from the ISG Assembly Wednesday, pending new elections. |
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Mascot change unlikely
Former trustee Roger Plummer made a speech encouraging the Board of Trustees to begin making a compromise on Chief Illiniwek in March 2002, but since then, the board has taken few actions to remove or retain the Chief as the University’s mascot.
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Sept. 11, 2003
For us, it just doesn’t seem to matter anymore.
Here, in Champaign, we seem so far removed from that day two years ago when people flew jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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