http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=33404Author Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500 THIS spring my friend’s daughter received exciting news: She had been accepted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It’s our hometown campus, but also the state’s flagship public university and one of the best research institutions in the country. My friend is a single mom with a few part-time jobs; finances are tight in her house. But the university offered them a decent financial aid package, one that would have made it possible for her daughter to attend. If, that is, it was an offer they could count on. But they couldn’t. The financial aid letter clearly stated that their award was “contingent upon continued funding” from the...]]>