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The University of Illinois Board of Trustees Thursday voted to freeze tuition for incoming in-state freshmen and non-resident undergraduates for the 2021-22 academic year.
Trustees also approved modest increases in the cost of room and board: 2% at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2.6% at the University of Illinois Chicago and 1.4% at the University of Illinois Springfield. Small increases in fees, set in consultation with students, were approved for Urbana-Champaign and Chicago.
Trustees met virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U of I System has now frozen tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students in six of the past seven years, part of an ongoing commitment to containing costs for students and their families, system President Tim Killeen said. Tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students were frozen from 2015-19. During the 2020-21 academic year, system leadership decided because of the pandemic to cover the costs of a 1.8 per
New supervisor says Mt. Morris Twp. employee used slur after she opened offices to residents
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
The Mt. Morris Township Hall sits on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 located at 5447 Bicentennial Drive. (Cody Scanlan | MLive.com)
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MT. MORRIS TWP., MI The newly elected township supervisor has spent just a few days on the job but says she’s already faced hostility from another elected official and been called a “bitch” by another township employee.
Supervisor Jolena Sims, who was elected in November, told members of the Township Board of Trustees Thursday, Jan. 7, that she wants the employee in the office of Treasurer Gayle Armstrong to be disciplined for the incident.