Alex Quigley

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees has proposed an extension of the contract of University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen for three years, pending formal vote and approval during its March meeting. Killeen’s tenure has been marked by significant sustained progress in student enrollment, affordability, diversity, financial aid, research and statewide economic development.

General operating support for the University of Illinois System would increase by 1.8 percent under the budget proposed Wednesday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, which would increase the system’s total general funds appropriation to $710.41 million for the coming fiscal year and continue the trend of state reinvestment in public higher education.

​​​​​The University of Illinois System today announced the launch of Brasillinois, an initiative that will feature a student mobility program and build clusters of research and institutional collaboration around themes of climate and sustainability, medicine and public health, and social inclusion.

The Illinois Innovation Network awarded nearly $240,000 in seed grants to six research teams in its eighth round of funding this week, with projects including measuring and mapping contaminants in Illinois’ water supply, virtual training for informal caregivers of cancer patients, developing an electricity consumption analysis that enables equitable energy distribution, and developing new electrolyzers that produce hydrogen from water.

Illini Angels is a powerful network of alumni investors – a team that brings decades experience in investing, innovating, building market leading companies, establishing connections, and encouraging the highest-impact relationships. The angel investing network has backed six companies since March 2023 and has grown to 70 members.

The 2025 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress, the world’s largest annual gathering focused on action-forward, knowledge-based and inclusive approaches to sustainability, will take place in Chicago from June 16-20, 2025.

The University of Illinois System today formally recognized Marie Lynn Miranda, the 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago, in the centuries-old tradition of investiture. “Chancellor Miranda is a dynamic and visionary leader whose energy and spirit are already producing meaningful results,” said system President Tim Killeen.

Alex Quigley and David Griffith examine the results of a Fordham institute study of North Carolina’s charter school authorization process.

University of Illinois System leaders expressed their appreciation for Gov. JB Pritzker’s and the Illinois General Assembly’s continued support of higher education in the 2025 fiscal year budget approved early Wednesday. The General Assembly approved an operating budget of $ 710.6 million for the system in the fiscal year that begins July 1, a 1.8% increase from the current year.

With the conclusion of the 2024 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress in Helsinki, organizers and participants in the world’s largest annual gathering focused on sustainability turned their attention to 2025 and the first time the event will be held in the United States.