re: #58 retired cynic

WIU was really hammered hard (as were many other Illinois colleges) by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s destructive economic policies: Illinois had no budget for three years, because he refused to sign one. State aid to colleges has shut down entirely, and those colleges without a large endowment were nearly destroyed. To blame it on a black president is really stupid.

I earned my BA and MA from one of the Illinois Board of Governors universities (my uni was the very definition of diversified) and am just gobsmacked