The State of State colleges....

[jwarigaku]

MC140

I have no horse in this race. This was an internal quote not a public quote. The district is in some interesting times financially after building a 3rd high school a few years ago that has eased crowding at the other two schools but with an ever decreasing enrollment(the school is no longer necessary) I'd expect one of the three schools to close before long. That closing would certainly make up the short fall but will also bind the shorts of all involved; especially after the jerrymandering that went along with the redistributing of students based on Neighborhood rants. When the teachers prepared to strike this past fall the budget to make up the proposed raises was being pulled from Stipends for coaching positions until the district "found" the money. You may claim that this budget shortfall and strong words are just posturing, but the money is not there if the state continues down the path it's on. I believe that the state is right to withhold funding based on the tax levy I pay directly to the district and then send my kids to private school. In the end I don't expect the districts to learn how to spend responsibly so something will have to go and as the district put it education will not be sacrificed.

Scare tactic. Just like Cahokia was cutting all sports programs.

 

[OldLeaf]

Things have gotten so bad that the crown jewel of the Illinois colleges , the U of I- Urbana, would rather take foreign students than in state students. The current sophomore class at Uof I was made up of 10 percent Chinese nationals when they arrived on campus in the fall of 2014.

Something is certainly rotten in Denmark or Champaign-Urbana or Springfield !!

Well....then that means not much has changed at the UIUC campus in 40 years going all the way back to the 1970's. It was Asia of the Midwest with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and etc Asian students all over the place back then. Heck, I was in the extreme minority as a white native Illinois country-bumpkin student in the College of Engineering.....I must of got in by a total mistake or fluke. And if they weren't foreign Asian students, then all the rest were Asian-American students from suburban Chicago. Go figure.....

Too many people going to a 4-year university that shouldn't........and too many people going to a 4-year university paying way too much money for worthless degrees with no demand for them in the real workplace world and the pay simply doesn't justify the college expense. We need technically trained people in technical jobs such as welders, tool & die makers, electrical/mechanical/robotic/computer techs, CNC programmers and operators, tradesmen, craftsmen, and etc. We have lots of help wanted signs for them that can pay up to 6 figures and we can't find any Americans that are trained, educated and skilled in these nowadays. Just sayin......as fact.

 

[eireog]

Well....then that means not much has changed at the UIUC campus in 40 years going all the way back to the 1970's. It was Asia of the Midwest with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and etc Asian students all over the place back then. Heck, I was in the extreme minority as a white native Illinois country-bumpkin student in the College of Engineering.....I must of got in by a total mistake or fluke. And if they weren't foreign Asian students, then all the rest were Asian-American students from suburban Chicago. Go figure.....

Too many people going to a 4-year university that shouldn't........and too many people going to a 4-year university paying way too much money for worthless degrees with no demand for them in the real workplace world and the pay simply doesn't justify the college expense. We need technically trained people in technical jobs such as welders, tool & die makers, electrical/mechanical/robotic/computer techs, CNC programmers and operators, tradesmen, craftsmen, and etc. We have lots of help wanted signs for them that can pay up to 6 figures and we can't find any Americans that are trained, educated and skilled in these nowadays. Just sayin......as fact.

. I know there has been a long relationship between U of I and China. I also have no doubt in what you say of the numbers back then but 10 % of the class being from China alone is quite an eye opening number.