UI trustees to discuss budget increase requests

The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL )

Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory on Agenda
By Christine Des Garennes
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:58 AM CDT

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees on Thursday is expected to discuss its budgets, including raises for faculty and staff, for this year through 2010.
The board meets beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Illini Union's Pine Lounge in Urbana.

The university is asking for $109 million more for the year ending June 30, 2010.
That's a 7.7 percent increase from the 2009 budget.

The budget request calls for $85.8 million to "strengthen academic quality," including $30 million for raises on average of 3 percent for faculty and staff, plus $15.3 million for recruitment, retention and filling in the salary gap between pay for new hires and longer term employees.

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