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UI leads Ill. in loan repayment BY EMMA WEISSMANN STAFF WRITER
The University has the lowest student loan default rate among public universities in Illinois, according to recently released figures from the U.S. Department of Education. University administrators credit the 2.5 percent rate to good communication between students and their lenders and increased employment of graduates. The three-year rate represents the percentage of students who default, or are unable to repay their loans, within three years of graduation or withdrawing from school. The University’s figures are much lower than the state’s average rate of 14.4 percent for all schools and the lowest out of the 12 public universities listed on the U.S. Board of Higher Education’s website. According to the U.S. Department of Educa-
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UI has lowest 3-year cohort default rate of any public Illinois university
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Above: Jeanie Parsly, chef at FAR, cuts apples for her team’s meal at the 9th Annual Chef’s Challenge held at the Ikenberry Dining Hall on Thursday. Top: Jeanie Parsley,, chef at FAR, pours wine into her saute as Brenda Welch, team coach, oversees. Middle: Judges taste LAR’s meal. Bottom: Andrew Bishop and Ruth Jones, chefs at LAR, plate their food for the judges.
The University of Illinois had the lowest three-year cohort default rate out of any other public university in Illinois at 2.5 percent. It is followed by ISU at 3 percent and Governors State University at 3.9 percent.
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Northeastern Illinois University Northern Illinois 10.1 University 7.4 Chicago State 15.2 University
“I’m seeing lots Dining cooks grill, saute, braise as of stares and they vie for Chef ’s Challenge title open, drooling mouths. It can only mean one thing — delicious food.”
3.9 Western Illinois University Illinois State Univeristy 10.7
way closer to the prize — an overnight trip to the Chicago National Restaurant Association, a paid dinner, and a new set of cooking pans. The challenge is featured as part of Sustainability Week because the ingredients used were from local businesses, including Blue Moon Farms, Prairie Fruit Farms, Common Ground Food Co-op, the Sustainable Student Farm, the Meat Sciences Lab and Dutch Valley Meats. “It’s an educational piece to be able to give the cooks and the chefs a market basket that has ingredients from farms in our area,” said Chris Henning, a manager in dining servic-
BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER
JOSH COX, dining services chef
University of Illinois 4.2 at Chicago
Five teams of chefs representing five campus residence halls came together Thursday to compete in the Dining Services’ 9th Annual Chef’s Challenge. The Student Dining and Residential Program building hosted the challenge for the third year in a row, allowing students eating their dinners to observe the competition. “I’m seeing lots of stares and open, drooling mouths,” Josh Cox , dining services chef and commentator for the night, said into his microphone. “It can only mean one thing — delicious food.” The teams poured, stirred, chopped and grilled their
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8.5 Springfield
Eastern Illinois University 4.8
6.6 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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Illinois institutes new sex abuse safeguards BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER
In the wake of the child abuse scandal at Penn State, the University has adopted new policies to further protect minors from sexual abuse. Maureen Parks , executive director of human resources, presented members of the Board of Trustees Committee on Governance, Personnel and Ethics on Thursday with the new policies designed to protect minors who visit campus, as well as the entire University community.
The University Board of Trustees Committee on Governance, Personnel and Ethics was also presented with a report on the University’s Freedom of Information Act operations when it met in Chicago on Thursday. Tom Hardy, executive director of University relations, and Kathy McCarthy, assistant director of FOIA administration, said that FOIA requests to the University are increasing in number, along with the amount of work required to respond to them. McCarthy said major topics for requests as of recent included the law school data falsification investigation, the enrollment management and anonymous
Parks said she has been working on the policy since December 2011, a month after the tragedy at Penn State came to light, which encouraged President Michael Hogan to create a task force to focus on enhancing sexual harassment policy. The University has been gradually rolling out mandatory sexual harassment training since this summer, but new policies are being implemented to add another layer of protection to the community, Parks said.
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emails investigation and the president’s resignation, among others. “One of the big misconceptions is that the majority of FOIA requests come from the media but actually, that’s not true,” she said, adding that media requests only make up 30 percent of the FOIAs the University receives. “The majority of FOIAs are submitted by private citizen and commercial agencies.” Hardy said administrators have felt their “hair on fire” while trying to find the right documents in a timely manner, but that they are trying to make people aware of what the law is and familiarize them with the process.
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Israeli consul general visits campus, talks to students BY ILYA GUREVIC STAFF WRITER
The consul general of Israel to the Midwest spoke to prospective and current members of the Innovation Immersion Program, a technology and entrepreneurship program for undergraduate and MBA students, during his visit to campus Thursday. As part of the program, students will go on immersion trips and present to technology leaders abroad. The fi rst scheduled group of about 40 students will go to Israel in spring 2013, as program leaders continue to plan
for trips to countries such as Sweden and Singapore. Ali Asghar Mirarefi , IIP adviser and director of International Research Partnerships, characterized the program as starting “from the intention of bringing (in) students from all disciplines and teach(ing) them to work across the globe.” Technology clusters, or zones with well-developed infrastructure for innovation, form the basis of IIP’s work, program director Robert Valli
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