To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "President B. Joseph White" <presidentwhite@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: presidentwhite@uillinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Fiscal Year 2010 budget progress

  A state budget bill that passed the Illinois House and Senate on May 31 
included $697.9 million in general revenue funds for the University of 
Illinois 2010 fiscal year (July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010), and it restores 
the 2.5 percent budget rescission in fiscal 2009. 

  In addition, the U of I will receive $53.3 million in U.S. Department 
of Education funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 
2009, the federal economic stimulus bill. The total fiscal 2010 state 
general revenue funding is $751.2 million. This appropriation reflects a 
1.1 percent increase, $7.8 million, in the university's base operating 
funds from the state over fiscal 2009 funding. These funds are contingent 
upon Gov. Patrick Quinn's signature of approval.

  The Legislature also has acted on a capital budget that allocates 
$249.5 million to the U of I for fiscal 2010. 

  - The Urbana campus would receive capital funds for the Lincoln Hall 
renovation, a post-harvest crop processing and research laboratory, the 
National Center for Supercomputing Applications' petascale computing 
facility and an electrical and computer engineering building.

  - The Chicago campus would receive capital funds to modernize its 
College of Dentistry building and to construct the National Rural Health 
Center at the College of Medicine at Rockford. The College of Medicine 
would also receive capital funds to construct a cancer-research center in 
Peoria. The College of Dentistry would receive funding to build a 
pediatric dental clinic.

  - The Springfield campus would receive capital funds for a public-
safety building.

  The three campuses would receive repair and renovation funds to address 
deferred maintenance in the amounts of $18.6 million for the Urbana 
campus, $12.5 million for the Chicago campus and $1 million for the 
Springfield campus. Capital funding is contingent upon final legislative 
approval and Gov. Quinn's signature of approval.

  Other U of I funding in fiscal 2010 statewide legislative budget bills 
include allocations for Cooperative Extension, the Division of 
Specialized Care for Children and sickle-cell research. (Project Chance 
funding continues with support from the University's general revenue 
funds.)

  We at the U of I appreciate the foresight of the state's legislators 
and governor for recognizing even in these difficult economic times that 
higher education funding remains an important state priority and an 
investment in the future.

  At its May meeting in Chicago, the Board of Trustees approved a 
preliminary 2010 fiscal-year university budget of $4.5 billion. Student 
room-and-board rates and fees were set at the trustees' January meeting. 

  Tuition for first-time, 2009-10 incoming students will be set soon by 
the Board of Trustees. Tuition for returning undergraduate students will 
be the same as last year under the four-year tuition guarantee.

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the President

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