Proposed state budget cuts would impact faculty most - Chrissy Pawlowski, Daily Illini

State budget cuts proposed by Gov. Pat Quinn in his budget address last week could have the largest impact on faculty salaries and benefits, University officials said. Randy Kangas, associate vice president of the Office for Planning and Budgeting, said under Quinn’s proposal, which the Senate will review March 21, about $15 million would be cut from the approximately $238.3 million the state provides the Urbana campus. He said the funding currently generated by the University is $1.965 billion through tuition and student fees. “This would lift the total amount of the reduction since about 2002 to about $214 million in direct appropriation,” he said. “With that said, the state provides us pensions and benefits through another agency, and that certainly helps the University a lot.” http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/article_96abbba8-8acc-11e2-bdeb-0019bb30f31a.html