To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Interim Chancellor and Provost Robert A. Easter" <chancellor@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Budget

Dear Colleagues:

As you know, public universities in Illinois are more than $735 million 
behind in receipt of state payments of their total appropriations for the 
fiscal year.

Last week, university and college presidents and chancellors from state-
supported universities across Illinois joined together in asking Governor 
Quinn and Comptroller Hynes to commit to a schedule of state payments to 
forestall further impact on our institutions. We also asked the governor 
and comptroller to commit to swift action to resolve the state's financial 
crisis. A copy of the letter was provided to state lawmakers.

The letter and a news release are available at the URL below. I urge you 
to read this information for additional details on the financial crisis 
and our request:
	
http://www.uillinois.edu/our/news 

On February 9, University of Illinois President Stanley O. Ikenberry spoke 
to the Civic Federation of Chicago about fiscal sustainability in our 
state and at our university. The Civic Federation, a fiscal integrity 
watchdog for more than a century, was an ideal venue for these remarks 
because it hosts the Institute for Illinois' Fiscal Sustainability, a non-
partisan effort to improve decision-making by providing fiscal policy 
analysis. I hope you will take some time to read his remarks. They are 
online at the URL below:
	
http://www.uillinois.edu/go/CivicFederation

Finally, if you have not yet visited Stewarding Resources @ Illinois, the 
campus budget Web site, I encourage you to click on the following URL:
	
http://oc.illinois.edu/budget 

Thank you for your continued input and leadership in these challenging 
times.

Warm regards,

Interim Chancellor Robert A. Easter
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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