University of Illinois salary freeze adds to flight risk, professors say

URBANA — Nighttime emails from the president are almost never good news, according to University of Illinois Professor Bruce Reznick.

And so the announcement that the university is again deferring a general salary-increase program until a state budget materializes was met with "dull disappointment combined with a lack of surprise," said Reznick, a professor of mathematics since 1979.

If the salary freeze holds, this will be the fourth year in the last eight that the UI has provided no general salary increases, though some employees get raises through promotions, retention offers, union-wage increases and the like.

The situation is no different at nearby public universities. Both Illinois State University and Eastern Illinois University have put raises on hold until the fiscal 2017 state budget is resolved.

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