CHICAGO (WBBM) — Nearly 200 teachers and students from the University of Illinois-Chicago descended on the Thompson Center today. WBBM’s Regine Schlesinger reports they brought a message to the Governor and lawmakers: they want higher education given a higher priority.
“UIC hospital physicians are here today to tell the state to cough up.” Dr. Pilar Mercado of the University of Illinois hospital, says considering the poor patients they treat and the future doctors they train, U of I isn’t getting its due. With the state nearly half a billion dollars behind on its payments to the University of Illinois, teachers are being forced to take 4 unpaid furlough days for the next four months. Many of them used one of them for their protest. Political science professor Dick Simpson says the quality of education is deteriorating.
The teachers are lobbying lawmakers to support the Governor’s call for a tax increase when he unveils his budget on Wednesday. Otherwise they warn the university might eventually have to close its doors.
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