The following is a portion of an editorial published in the March 5, 2010, edition of the State Journal-Register.
"IT'S A SWEET DEAL, no doubt, for a university president signing off from a lengthy career in higher education.
University of Illinois Springfield Chancellor Richard Ringeisen gets $273,000 after he retires to serve as an adviser to the president of the University of Illinois. He won’t have to live in Illinois to do the job, and he’ll even get reimbursed for flying back and forth between his new home in the Carolinas and the Land of Lincoln."
Download a PDF of the full editorial:20100305-SJR-Our-Opinion-U-of-I-board.pdf
