Budget cuts cause unrest in higher education - Maud Blose, Medill Northwestern

A social work major at UIC, Jessica, who did not want to reveal her last name, said, “I do know that professors have to now take furlough days and they have less classroom time and this means that we’d be taught the amount of material in less time. We used to get hard copies of the class syllabus but now it’s all posted on Blackboard. I don’t think the solution is laying people off. It’s not the university’s fault; it’s the state’s fault. The state should give us back the money they borrowed from us.”