Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, July 17, 2017.
The Illinois budget deal won’t solve public universities’ many fiscal issues
Public universities in Illinois will receive state funding for the 2017-2018 school year thanks to the new state budget, but that won’t solve all the problems that piled up during 736 days without one, according to the Tribune. “You don’t get one year’s funding and have people say, ‘Oh, Illinois is totally fixed now,’ ” Chicago State University interim president Rachel Lindsey told the Tribune. “I don’t think it would be in our best interest to think of ourselves as out of the woods just yet.” [Tribune]
