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UI Foundation plans to double funds BY STANTON POLANSKI STAFF WRITER
The University of Illinois Foundation discussed plans to double annual donations, even after last year’s record-setting total, at its annual meeting at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 18. “We’re an institution that has an incredible role in society. We want to make this place as great as it can be,” said UIF President
Thomas Farrell. UIF is an agency that handles University fundraising efforts and incoming donations. Farrell said the average annual funding the foundation has received the last three years from alumni and other donations has been around $210 million, but the goal is to raise that number to around $450 million seven to 10 years from now. Right now, UIF is deliberating over the budget and how to bring
in more donations, but Farrell said the new plan will be in action around January 2014. “We’re ready to go. It’s time to carry this plan out the next six years,” said Vice Chancellor for Development Jeff Lorber. The staff at UIF refer to themselves as people trying to bring color to the University’s “vision.” “We want to connect our vision as directly as possible to the chancellor, vice chancellor, deans, and
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the president,” Farrell said. To do that, UIF wants to increase the yearly donations from alumni. As of now, nearly 47,000 alumni actively donate each year. “The alumni have been very supportive,” Farrell said. “Our interest, though, is to better connect with them and improve what is a pretty good base. If you compare our level of engagement to other Big Ten institutions, there is
room for improvement. It’s good, but we’d like it to be better.” Last year, the foundation received key donations from the Grainger Foundation for $100 million, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for $25 million, and State Farm, in the agreement regarding the name change of Assembly Hall, for $60 million. Vice President Don Kojich said the Gates family approached UIF when they were looking to
donate to the University’s program designed to improve crop photosynthesis. “That’s unusual because with most foundations you approach them,” he said. Farrell said he tries to reach out to alumni so he can help them feel more connected to the campus, and it’s that familial relationship that drives donations. The same
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Confidence in government has reached all-time low licans, though it is not affiliated with a particular political party. “I do find that it’s true that Democrats and Republicans don’t really represent the people in general. I think the country is moving toward a more libertarian attitude,” Karr said. “We take, generally speaking, a more liberal stance on social issues and a more conservative stance on economic issues.” Karr even said that the attendance of Young Americans for Liberty meetings exceeds meeting attendance for College Republicans at UIUC. “I think that goes to show that people really care about the ideas that we’re fighting for, whereas students don’t really care about getting involved with college Democrats and College Republicans even if they identify as being in one of those parties,” Karr said. However, those students affiliated with College Republicans and Illini Democrats remain confident in their parties and attribute the survey’s low ratings to the party conflict. “I think people are very frus-
BY ZILA RENFRO STAFF WRITER
Democrats and Republicans have reached an all-time low in public opinion, according to a Gallup survey. The poll, taken in the midst of the government shutdown, showed that only 26 percent of Americans believe that the Democratic and Republican parties are doing an adequate job of representing the American people, and 60 percent of Americans consented that there was a need for a third major political party. This is the poll’s highest recorded percentage in 10 years. “My personal opinion ... is that I wish it were easier for third parties to compete,” said Bill Karr, president of the Young Americans for Liberty organization and graduate student. “But the laws are such that it’s very difficult right now to gain traction with a third party.” Young Americans for Liberty is a large and fast-growing libertarian group that grew out of Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign. It has nearly 500 chapters on college campuses across the nation. Historically, the libertarian movement has often supported repub-
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Richard Schulz, freshman in DGS, carves a pumpkin during the Ikenberry’s Halloween celebration Wednesday. The Ikenberry also held a costume contest and set up a “Haunted Prairie” for the students in celebration of the holiday.
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Desire for a third party increases in past year The government shutdown and party disagreement has decreased the party-approval rate to 26% among Americans.
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Editor’s note: The Daily Illini Editorial Board sat down with Chancellor Phyllis Wise to talk about the state of affairs on campus.
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Public schools outperform private in mathematics STAFF WRITER
For years, research from the National Center for Educational Statistics backed the assumptions that private primary education is more effective than public education — until University professors Sarah and Chris Lubienski adjusted these results to take student demographics into account. “The finding surprised me,” Sarah said. “When we compare apples to apples, so when we equate students and schools on demographics such as parent education level and income, we find that mathematics achievement is higher in public elementary schools than in private schools.” The Lubienskis recently published these findings in their book, “The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools.” Sarah did not intend to compare public and private educa-
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Phyllis Wise: We define diversity very broadly. Not only racial diversity, not only religious diversity, not only ethnic diversity but disabled students, students of different ages, of different economic means, of different geographic backgrounds. So when we look at each of these metrics, we are going in the right direction, but I can say that I don’t think I’ll ever give up on diversity. I don’t think you can ever become too diverse, so to speak. And I think one of the other areas that we’re really concentrating on is inclusiveness. ... So I guess what I’m asking every student to do is to step out of their comfort zone a little bit, to extend a welcoming hand to someone that you don’t know so that everyone feels like this is truly their family.
Wise: We have never thought of international students as a source of revenue. We’ve always thought of them as students who really, really want to get their education at the University of Illinois. We enjoy a very, very strong reputation internationally, and many of those students seek us because they believe that they’ll get a better education here — and we like to believe that they actually will get a better education here — than many other choices that they can make. That they are paying full tuition, full out-of-state tuition, and then an international component of that in additions, is part of what they are doing, but we have never looked to international students because they are a source of revenue. In fact, the qualifications that we put on out of state and international students is actually higher than the qualifications that we ask of our in-state students because we realize that we are a state university — we are the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – and that our very first responsibility is to the citizens of Illinois.
DI: Regarding the high number of international students that we’ve admitted over the past years, some
DI: Why does the University hold the Chief Illiniwek trademark if we don’t intend to use it?
The Daily Illini: We know that making our University more diverse has long been a goal of the University and a goal of yours. As of now, where is the University lacking in diversity and where is it doing well?
tion initially, she said. She stumbled onto a negative estimate of achievement for private schools while she was analyzing mathematics instruction methods. The discrepancies intrigued her, and she started to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 to conduct studies on public and private education, she said. “I began to collaborate with my husband on this work because he is interested in education policy, which includes movements to privatize public schooling in various ways,” Sarah said. “We used a series of models, which allowed us to examine achievement in public and private schools both before and after adding demographic and instruction-related variables.” Sarah and Chris concluded
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contend that admitting high numbers of international students is a budget play of sorts. How would you respond to these kinds of comments?
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Wise: We hold it, in part, so that others cannot abuse it.
DI: College affordability has become a growing issue among prospective students in higher education. What has, or what does the University specifically plan to do to address rising tuition costs?
Wise: We are trying very hard to control tuition levels. As you know, last year we raised them by 1.75 percent, and that amounted to less than $100 per semester. In addition, we have put a lot more money into scholarships. We put in $58 million in scholarships for students based upon need and merit. ... We realize that we want the University of Illinois to be accessible to everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and we aren’t there yet.
DI: What would you be looking for in the next president of the University?
Wise: I have enjoyed working with President Easter immensely. I think he is both visionary as well as ethical as well as
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thoughtful. He’s highly respected. He knows so much about the history of the University of Illinois on all three campuses, and I would like to have another person like him.
DI: What is being done to address crime on this campus?
Wise: There are over 1,000 cameras now, not only on campus in the buildings and around campus, but also around Campustown. ... That is certainly one of the big improvements, I think, in terms of security. The second thing is that we give rides — free rides — to areas around campus. ... It’s also a matter of educating students that nothing is ever 100 percent safe, and you have to be vigilant yourself.
DI: Regarding the cameras, how does the University balance security with privacy concerns? Wise: There’s always that boundary. We have never used a camera to follow a student unless something untoward has happened.
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