Supporting the Future of

• The University of Illinois has over 78,000 students enrolled at its three campuses and College of Medicine programs in Rockford and Peoria, and thousands more take classes off campus and online. Students come to the three campuses from 101 Illinois counties.

• The U of I awarded a record 20,400 bachelors, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees and certificates last year. UI student are successfully finding employment.

• The operating budget of the University of Illinois was $5.6 billion in FY 2014, with more than $757 million in externally funded research.

• The University now provides more need-based institutional aid to its undergraduate students than the state of Illinois through MAP or the federal government through Pell. The budget for this activity is over $78 million to the neediest students that attend the University and impacts approximately 16,500 of our undergraduate students this year.

• The UI Health enterprise at UIC is the state’s largest public healthcare provider, with over 465,000 patient visits at the University’ hospital and clinics in FY 2013. The University will provide an estimated $40.6 million in uncompensated care this year. UIC has the most comprehensive set of health colleges in the state and the largest medical college in the nation. In Illinois, one in three pharmacists, more than 40% of the dentists, and one in six physicians graduated from UIC. • The University supports public safety programs in the state through the Fire Services Institute, which provided 65,695 fire fighter training enrollments last year for first responders from at least 100 counties, and the Police Training Institute , which had enrollments of 820 last year.

• The Urbana campus has the state’s only Veterinary College and one of only two dozen in the U.S.

• The College of Engineering at Urbana-Champaign is considered one of the top five in the world. Examples of rankings in the latest U.S. News & World Report: Civil Engineering was rated #1 in the nation; Agricultural & Biological Engineering was #2; Environmental Engineering was #3; and Materials Sciences was #4; and almost all disciplines were ranked in the top ten.

• UIC nursing and pharmacy programs • The Prairie Research Institute is the State’s primary collector and researcher of the State’s environment and natural history. Each dollar appropriated to the Institute leverages over four dollars in external funding.

• The University of Illinois is home to some of the state’s treasured arts and cultural attractions, including the Krannert Art , Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Natural History collections, Spurlock Museum, Jane Addams-Hull House, and UIS Studio Theatre.

• In FY 2013, the University received 344 technology disclosures and 96 U.S. patents, executed 96 licenses and options to commercialize technologies, and licensed 11 start-up companies. The UI Research Park in Champaign continues to grow, housing more than 90 companies and nearly 1,400 employees. UI recently opened its health technology incubator at the Chicago Technology Park.

• UIC Economic Impact

Questions? Contact: Jennifer Creasey || Assistant Director, Governmental Relations || University of Illinois || [email protected] || 217-493-6416

SUPPORT SB3553

State University Certificates of Participation Act grants the Board of any state university the authority to enter into financing agreements to fund capital improvements by selling Certificates of Participation (COPs) expires on December 31, 2014.

The expiration of this Act would eliminate the authority of the Board of any state university to finance capital improvements by selling certificates of participation and would adversely impact the state universities’ ability to maintain and expand their academic facilities and would increase their reliance on state capital appropriations.

SB3553 amends the State University Certificates of Participation Act to extend by ten years the current authority of the Boards of Trustees of a state university to enter into financing agreements in connection with the financing or refinancing of capital improvements by selling COPs.

Additional information:

• The state universities have no legislative authority to borrow for academic capital projects other than COPs.

• The state universities use traditional financing, or revenue bonds, when there are direct revenues such as housing, dining and athletics, to pay for the related facility construction or renovation.

• The University of Illinois has used COPs for infrastructure projects including utility infrastructure projects or utility chilled water or steam loops.

• Installment payments (debt service) on COPs are made from the annual operating budgets.

• The bond issuance teams including bankers (underwriters), lawyers (bond counsel) and financial advisors are chosen from the result of an RFP process.

The last two COPS issues were for the University of Illinois included:

• $73 million for the Supercomputer building on the Urbana campus paid off with State capital dollars

• $29 million for the Rockford Rural Medical Center addition which also was paid off with State capital dollars.

Questions? Contact: Jennifer Creasey || Assistant Director, Governmental Relations || University of Illinois || [email protected] || 217-493-6416

Other University of Illinois projects financed with COPs:

• Urbana Library Storage System • UI Integrate (University Financial System) • Fire Services Institute • Deferred Maintenance Projects

Projects that may be financed with COPs:

ACTB building at UIC

Natural History Building at UIUC

Energy savings projects at UIUC, UIC and UIS

Other:

Since this law was enacted in 2009, five state universities have issued over $203 million in certificates of participation to finance facility projects, energy conservation measures and repair and replacement projects:

Issuer Series Amount Purpose in Millions Eastern Illinois University 2009A $84.9 Renewable Energy Center Project, Energy Conservation Measures Western Illinois University 2010 $11.6 Energy Conservation Measures, Repair & Replacement Projects Northeastern Illinois 2010 $6.1 Energy Conservation Measures University Western Illinois University 2011 $11.8 Energy Conservation Measures, Repair & Replacement Projects Illinois State University 2011 $15.0 Energy Conservation Measures Northeastern Illinois 2012 $28.5 Academic Facility Project University Southern Illinois University 2014 $45.8 Deferred Maintenance Project, Refunding Total $203.7 SUPPORTERS

University of Illinois Northern Illinois University Southern Illinois University Western Illinois University Eastern Illinois University Northeastern Illinois University Illinois State University

Questions? Contact: Jennifer Creasey || Assistant Director, Governmental Relations || University of Illinois || [email protected] || 217-493-6416

SUPPORT

Higher Education Procurement Reform

• Improve efficiency while preserving ethics and integrity while allowing researchers to do their job in a more effective and competitive environment.

• Exemption of non-appropriated research projects, or a stand-alone code for Higher Education.

• The State’s procurement goals of openness, transparency, avoidance of conflicts of interest and self-serving deals, can--and will--be obtained in a more cost efficient and commercially reasonable manner through the Universities’ proposed amendments to the respective Acts to incorporate appropriately designed procurement practices governing the expenditure of University funds.

• The Universities’ proposed language would incorporate the material provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code and yet provide needed flexibility in the procurement process given the Universities’ specialized needs and assure the procurement of goods and services in a more efficient and economical manner.

Background

For the reasons set forth below, higher education should be exempted from the provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code and that the respective Acts should be amended to include procurement provisions designed to meet the business functions and needs of the University systems.

• Lost academic and entrepreneurial talent and lost opportunity costs are the direct result of the procurement frustrations encountered by the University systems.

• Costs of goods and services are needlessly increased to the detriment of the University systems.

• Businesses are declining to provide goods and services to the University systems because the current policies are not commercially reasonable.

• Decisions of the “SPOs” are inconsistent within the University system and the SPOs themselves resulting in uncertainty and greater expenditures of time and effort in the procurement process.

Questions? Contact: Jennifer Creasey || Assistant Director, Governmental Relations || University of Illinois || [email protected] || 217-493-6416