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Flowers bloom outside Hovey Hall.

Vice President for Finance and Planning

Updates and Communications

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

VPFP Division Newsletter - April 2025 

VPFP Division Newsletter - April 2025

Division News

Don Kunde rings the Founders Day bell.
The campus community is invited to an open house reception celebrating the retirement of Don Kunde from 2-4 p.m. Thursday, February 20, in the Alumni Center, Room 116. Remarks will begin at 3 p.m.  
An entry to the Quad after an ice and snow hit campus in early January 2021.
Those interested in becoming a candidate for the State Universities Civil Service Advisory Committee representative election in March can pick up a Petition for Candidacy and a Statement of Candidacy, beginning Friday, February 13, 2026, at 8 a.m., in the Human Resources office.  
Snow on the quad and statue of Reggie
The campus community is invited to attend candidate open forums to meet the finalists for the position of associate vice president of Facilities Services on February 3, 10, and 12, 2026, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., in the Old Main Room, Bone Student Center.