College costs up, graduations down - Rich Miller, Capitol Fax

College in Illinois is becoming more expensive on average, and fewer students are graduating from the state’s large public universities. That’s according to a decade’s-worth of federal education data. The strain, as the data shows, has mostly fallen on Illinois’ public universities. Schools such as Northern, Southern and Western Illinois universities were among the hardest hit when the state legislature failed to pass a budget for nearly three years. https://capitolfax.com/2018/11/26/college-costs-up-graduations-down/