Applying from Out Of State

msheft
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:07:50 +0000

drusba:It was not intended to get legislators to provide more money. here is the article from May 2006:

" Responding to a public outcry, University of Illinois officials on Monday scrapped a plan that would have made it harder for Illinois students to get into the state’s premier public university.

The university was hit with threats of legislative hearings and complaints from angry students, parents and alumni after announcing plans to gradually increase out-of-state and international enrollment to 15 percent, from 10 percent, as part of a larger plan to make the Urbana-Champaign campus more elite.

“The public reaction is so strong and so negative that I think that it is hurting more than a slight increase in non-resident enrollment can possibly help us,” the university’s president, B. Joseph White, said in an interview with the Tribune. “We are a public institution, and trust and confidence in us are really important. It sure is not worth damaging that trust and confidence over a small matter like this.”

The university’s chancellor, Richard Herman, had told guidance counselors last Tuesday that the change, part of a wide-ranging strategic plan for the campus, was intended to increase the diversity of the undergraduate student body and improve education for all students.

University officials argued that they look out for Illinois’ students, noting that the university has the smallest percentage of non-resident students of any Big 10 university. Seven of the public universities draw more than 25 percent of their students from other states."