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Lawmaker Wants to Cut Tuition Perks for University Workers
A state lawmaker wants to cut a major perk for public university employees.

State Rep. Dave Winters (R-Shirland) wants to save $7 million a year for state universities. He has introduced a bill that would cut the obligation on the part of universities to give a 50 percent cut in tuition to the children of their workers.

Winters says it'll take years for universities to save the full amount, because he's willing to allow current students to keep the perk if they are already taking advantage of it. Winters says he might even relent to allow vested workers, those who've worked for a university for seven years, to keep the perk even if their kids aren't old enough to use it yet.

Winters says he has no problem with universities offering such a perk to a "star" professor candidate, but he doesn't think the state should mandate that universities offer it to janitors, secretaries, and other staff.

(Illinois Radio Network)
02 07 10 by Newsroom
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