Bradley gets state funds as part of grant

Bradley gets a nice hunk of $$ courtesy of Governor Pat Quinn.
BUT -- Contrary to the mistaken idea that Bradley was somehow special and "earned this grant"...or went out and won the award...
now we see that Gov. Quinn has been on a statewide tour stumping his broad giveaways & giving away the same grant money to almost all the state's private colleges & universities...
Looks like Bradley was hit with this windfall and didn't do a thing to get it - in fact maybe ought to have done better!  And had BU not gotten this handout then it would have been a surprise, so anyone giving credit to someone at BU simply doesn't know anything and is stupid.

In fact - many, many schools got considerably bigger grants than Bradley - so you actually gotta wonder how come we got stiffed?
Maybe we should have gotten a bigger hunk of the pie....  ;)

Just check the news stories...
DePaul got $8 million - remember - they are a private Catholic school
Northwestern $7 million
Loyola almost $6 million - so their President, the Reverend Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., must have done a heckuva better job than the downstate schools!!!
Univ. of Chicago $4 million - they have the same enrollment as & employ fewer employees than Bradley!!
Columbia College $5 million
Illinois Institute of Technology, St. Xavier University, Robert Morris & Roosevelt Univ. got $3 mil each

In fact ALL the Chicago private schools got way more than Bradley!!!

IWU & Eureka College both got about $1 mil
Lewis University - MUCH smaller than Bradley - got almost $3 million
Quincy Univ. got a million
St' Francis univ. in Joliet got OVER a mil
Elmhurst College got $1.5 million and they are only half the size and only a fraction of the community influence and job creator as Bradley 
Lake Forest College got $1
Trinity International University got almost a million
and so on with numerous others - even tiny Rosalind Franklin University
Ausgustana, Knox, Monmouth - got over $3 million
Milliken, Illinois College...got $3.4 MILLION

http://elmhurst.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/state-awards-grant-to-elmhurst-college-for-schiable

http://newssun.suntimes.com/news/21645821-418/34m-in-grants-awarded-to-four-area-colleges.html

http://romeoville.patch.com/groups/schools/p/quinn-26-million-grant-benefits-lewis-science-center

http://www.enewspf.com/school-news/44960-gov-quinn-announces-that-depaul-is-one-of-the-chicago-area-universities-to-receive-capital-grant-funding.html

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Ill-Gov-Quinn-makes-3-stops-after-criticism-4694295.php

http://www.wgem.com/story/22980347/2013/07/31/state-of-illinois-awards-886k-grant-to-quincy-university

http://www.taylorvilledailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=21&id=87651#.UfzrTpLOvPU

EVEN many, many tiny little schools in and around Chicago and RELIGIOUS schools like MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE got big grants - MOODY got well over $600,000

http://news.yottos.com/ShowNews/Governor_Quinn_Announces_$54.8_Million_Investment_in_Chicago_Area_Colleges_and_Universities_-_Includes_Nearly_$4.8_Million_to_Columbia_College_Chicago_for_Major_Campus_Improvements;_Grants_to_Create_Thousands_of_Local_Jobs_01-08-2013



So.......looks like Bradley cashed in but hard to credit anyone at Bradley for anything special - note the Chicago schools where Gov. Quinn hopes to get lots & lots of votes next time around - got the lion's share of the handouts...

In fact the amounts given seem to be in DIRECT PROPORTION to how close you are to CHICAGO!!
..so I'd say the money was determined politically and not based on any action by the schools.  I am also surprised there wasn't more backlash about giving the money to private schools.

Here's a story about how Gov. Quinn held a "CLOSED DOOR MEETING" with the heads of all the state's universities to determine the giveaway, at a time when some state schools
are nearly going bankrupt!  
SIU is lacking $86 million in state aid & grant money that was promised yet NEVER DELIVERED!!

http://www.wsiltv.com/news/education/IL-College-Chiefs-Back-Quinn-Call-For-More-MAP-Money-139027654.html?m=y

...but there are people who claim it is unconstitutional to give the money to private schools and who are suing..