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Vice President for Finance and Planning

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Leadership Profile for Current Opening - Associate Vice President & CIO - March 2026

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Budget Update - March 2025

Illinois State implemented a comprehensive strategy (RISE) in September 2024 to ensure long-term financial stability. The strategy included divisional budget holdbacks, hiring reductions, deferral of non-urgent projects, and reduction in out-of-cycle and additional pay increases.

Read more about the Budget Update from VPFP Glen Nelson

 

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A message to the campus community on AFSCME Local 1110 negotiations, March 26, 2026

This communication is an update on important developments regarding contract negotiations with AFSCME Local 1110, the Union representing approximately 360 of Illinois State University’s employees, primarily in janitorial, grounds and dining positions.  
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Administrative/Professional April spotlight: Adam McCrary

Each month, the Administrative/Professional (A/P) Council highlights an A/P staff member through a series of questions as another way for the Illinois State University community to connect. This month, readers get to know Adam McCrary, director of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS). 
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File a Witness Slip in support of House Bill 1581 – Equitable Funding Formula

Illinois State is again publicly supporting the proposed Public Higher Education Equitable Funding Formula legislation. Please consider filing a witness slip in advance of the House bill being heard in a subject matter hearing in the House of Representatives Higher Education Appropriations Committee on Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 8 a.m.