University Of Illinois System
The University of Illinois is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three campuses: Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Across its three campuses, the University of Illinois enrolls about 70,000 students. It had an operating budget of $4.17 billion in 2007.
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“It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
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—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)
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—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)