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Ken Zehnder

Retirement reception will honor Ken Zehnder

May 24, 2011 Mark McGowan Campus Highlights, Community, Communiversity, Events, Faculty & Staff, On Campus

A retirement reception in honor of Ken Zehnder is planned from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, in the University Suite of the Holmes Student Center. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Joan Laurino at (815) 753-2253 or via e-mail at

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Statehouse update: Final funding talks begin

April 28, 2011 Mark McGowan Latest News, Voices

With only five weeks remaining in the spring legislative session in Illinois, a multitude of measures is moving forward after clearing the April 15 deadline to pass proposals out of each chamber. Illinois Senate President John Cullerton has provided a succinct summary

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Money & ruler

Statehouse update: Budget questions linger

April 15, 2011 Mark McGowan Latest News, Voices

Late last month, Speaker Mike Madigan and House Minority Leader Tom Cross appeared together at Higher Education Appropriation Committee hearing in a rare public showing of bipartisan cooperation. They testified in support of a bill that would fully fund the 2012 fiscal

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Statehouse update: Some bills makes progress, other legislation gets stalled in committee

March 30, 2011 Mark McGowan Latest News, Voices

NIU President John G. Peters indicated in his March 24 campus update that “it is difficult to predict the precise course of this spring’s budget debate” and that “what happens in Springfield during the next 60 days will be of critical importance

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Statehouse update: Flood of legislation greets Illinois lawmakers, lobbyists, interest groups

March 16, 2011 Mark McGowan Community, Communiversity, Latest News, Voices

Every two years, with the January swearing-in of a newly elected Illinois House of Representatives, the legislature starts fresh. All bills and legislative proposals that were not enacted by that point are rendered null and void when the new General Assembly is convened. 

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Statehouse update: Pension changes loom for state employees as lawmakers wrestle budget

March 2, 2011 Bradley Hoey Faculty & Staff, Latest News, NIU Hoffman Estates, NIU Naperville, NIU Rockford, Voices

Talk of budget cuts, borrowing, deficits, tax increases and pensions have dominated conversation throughout the halls of the Illinois Capitol this year.  Legislators and staffers have debated whether the budget cuts actually cut the budget or whether they merely act as a

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Statehouse update: Gov. Quinn presents FY2012 budget plan

February 23, 2011 Bradley Hoey Community, Faculty & Staff, Latest News, Voices

Gov. Quinn laid out his budget plans for Fiscal Year 2012 last Wednesday to mixed reviews. The $35.4 billion in general revenue funds expenditure, $1.7 billion dollars higher than last year, supports no new programs, provides additional headcount for agencies including the Departments of

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Statehouse update: Gov. Quinn to unveil budget

February 15, 2011 Mark McGowan Community, Faculty & Staff, Latest News, Voices

Parameters of the budget discussions will be set this week. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn presents his budget address Wednesday, Feb. 16, and is expected to identify cuts that have already been made, debts that must be paid and the need for bonding in order

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Ken Zehnder

Statehouse update: Sen. Burzynski announces retirement, higher education bills await action

February 5, 2011 Mark McGowan Community, Communiversity, Faculty & Staff, Latest News, Voices

The February blizzard of 2011 postponed the first full week of the 97th General Assembly before the first snow flake fell. Legislative bills are being introduced and a host of issues — old and new — are on the horizon but will wait until

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