Students gather in the Illinois State Capitol to lobby their lawmakers against budget cuts affecting education spending on October 20, 2015. Source: AP/Seth Perlman

ILLINOIS–(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016.  The future of public higher education is on shaky footing in Illinois. As a budget impasse that froze all state funding to higher education enters its ninth month, public colleges have sent layoff notices to hundreds of employees and received substantial credit downgradesfrom Moody’s Investors Service.…