Broken promises: How "jarheads" got shunted aside at the University of Illinois: A Marathon Pundit series
AP is right behind me on this one.
About this time last year, my alma mater, the University of Illinois announced an unpredented offer of 110 full-ride Executive MBA scholarships to for War on Terror veterans returning home after serving abroad. Congressman Rahm Emanuel and Lt. Governor touted the program.
But as I blogged last month, things didn't turn out quite as planned. Some of the returning vets had their acceptance to the university rescinded.
Emanuel and Quinn pressured to university to do the right thing.
From AP:
"It is my expectation that the admissions policy remains consistent with the program I endorsed -- and that the university is using my name to support," Emanuel wrote June 12 after hearing from an Army captain who'd been accepted and then turned away.
Two days later, the university decided to honor conditional admissions, according to the complaint.
Forty-one applicants, including (Army veteran Michael) Purvis, were given scholarships and enrolled in Chicago, and eight were enrolled in the Champaign-Urbana programs, Kaler said. The number in Chicago later dropped to 35 after some students decided not to attend, the university said.
Spokesmen for Emanuel and Quinn said the two would like to see the program or one like it continue. Eric Schuller, Quinn's senior policy adviser, said the lieutenant governor will watch closely to see that the university lives up to its commitment.
Despite my computer problems--scroll down--I'm not done with this story.
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