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U of IL President, Faculty Clash Over Cost Cuts
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois faculty members are complaining that school President Michael Hogan is driving down morale by trying to force cost-saving measures.

Joyce Tolliver is an associate Spanish professor and chairwoman of the faculty-student Senate executive committee at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The News-Gazette in Champaign reports she told Hogan at a meeting Wednesday that faculty members believe their objections to Hogan's ideas aren't being heard.

Hogan said he was hurt by their complaints. He said when he took the job in 2010 he walked into a longstanding crisis created by the state's financial troubles.

Hogan said the faculty's concerns would be better addressed in a closed-door meeting rather than in public.

Hogan was hired after the resignation of B. Joseph White over an admissions scandal.

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