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Area University's President's Want More Funding
The state's university presidents have been sharing their wins and losses - and wish lists - with lawmakers.

Illinois State University president Al Bowman says he would like a 9.5 percent increase in state funding, though the proposed budget is closer to 1 percent. Bowman says a final decision on how much to raise fall tuition (for incoming freshmen) will have to wait until the summer, when trustees hope to have a better idea of what to expect from the state.

In Illinois, public university tuitions are frozen once a student starts freshman year.

While Bowman said ISU's campus population is not diverse enough - citing competition from Southern schools for talented black students from Chicago - his Western Illinois University counterpart said his school is overdue for some major construction.

WIU president Al Goldfarb says a performing arts project in Macomb has been on a waiting list for 30 years, adding the state hasn't given Western money for a new building since 1976. Goldfarb is also frustrated the state has not come through on matching money for a new Quad Cities facility in Moline, five years after Deere and Co. donated the land for it. Goldfarb notes the Quad Cities make up the largest metro area in the country with no public university.

Both schools are looking toward programs in fields where there's a demand for jobs - engineering at WIU Quad Cities and doctoral nursing and renewable energy at Illinois State.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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