Efforts to poach top UI faculty spiked during state budget crisis -Julie Wurth, News Gazette

The state's budget crisis has subsided for now, but its impact on faculty recruitment remains a key issue at the University of Illinois. Campus officials are still massaging the numbers, but outside recruiting of the UI's top professors was up 50 percent in each of the past two years over previous years, according to interim Provost John Wilkin. "It was a challenging couple of years," Wilkin said at Monday afternoon's annual meeting of the faculty, where the issue generated some discussion. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-10-17/efforts-poach-top-ui-faculty-spiked-during-state-budget-crisis.html