With Illinois public universities facing drastic cuts as a result of the state’s record budget deficit, Richard Ringeisen, chancellor for the University of Illinois at Springfield, announced Monday that he would retire in October.
The smallest campus of the state’s flagship university is feeling the pinch as a result of the state’s $13 billion budget shortfall.
But the UIS head said the desire to spend more time with his family, not the state’s fiscal crisis, affected his decision to step away.
“The budget’s a danger... This is almost Biblical – The bad budget shall always be with us,” Ringeisen said. “We just have to make the proper moves to take care of it.”
Ringeisen's comments were featured in a Illinois Statehouse News article on March 2, 2010.
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