110 ILCS 305/180

(110 ILCS 305/180)

(Text of Section from P.A. 103-588)

Sec. 180. Innovation center. The Board of Trustees, directly or in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Springfield Innovation Center partners, which shall consist of other institutions of higher education, not-for-profit organizations, businesses, and local governments, may finance, design, construct, enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate, control, and manage a University of Illinois at Springfield Innovation Center (UIS Innovation Center), which is a facility or facilities dedicated to fostering and supporting innovation in academics, entrepreneurship, workforce development, policy development, and non-profit or philanthropic activities. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the UIS Innovation Center (1) may be located on land owned by the Board of Trustees or a University of Illinois at Springfield Innovation Center partner; and (2) shall have costs incurred in connection with the design, construction, enlargement, improvement, equipping, and completion of the business incubation and innovation facilities paid with funds appropriated to the Capital Development Board from the Build Illinois Bond Fund for a grant to the Board of Trustees for the UIS Innovation Center. If the UIS Innovation Center is located on land owned by a University of Illinois at Springfield Innovation Center partner, the Board of Trustees must have an ownership interest in the facility or facilities or a portion thereof. An ownership interest shall bear a reasonable relationship to the proportional share of the costs paid by such grant funds for a term equal to at least the useful life of the innovation facilities.

(Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.)

(Text of Section from P.A. 103-749)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Sec. 180. Winter weather emergency closure; educational support services pay. If a campus is closed due to a city, county, or State declaration of a winter weather emergency, the Board of Trustees shall pay to its employees who provide educational support services to the campus, including, but not limited to, custodial employees, building maintenance employees, transportation employees, food service providers, classroom assistants, or administrative staff, their daily, regular rate of pay and benefits rendered for the campus closure if the closure precludes them from performing their regularly scheduled duties and the employee would have reported for work but for the closure; however, this requirement does not apply if the day is rescheduled and the employee will be paid the employee's daily, regular rate of pay and benefits for the rescheduled day when services are rendered.

(Source: P.A. 103-749, eff. 1-1-25.)

(Text of Section from P.A. 103-1020)

Sec. 180. Enrollment reporting.

(a) The Board of Trustees shall report to the Board of Higher Education by the 15th business day after the start of the academic year all of the following student enrollment data:

(1) The number of students enrolled at the start of the previous academic year.

(2) The number of students enrolled full time at the start of the previous academic year.

(3) The number of students enrolled at the start of the current academic year.

(4) The number of students enrolled full time at the start of the current academic year.

(5) The number of students enrolled in online learning at the start of the previous academic year.

(6) The number of students enrolled in in-person learning at the start of the previous academic year.

(7) The number of students enrolled in online learning at the start of the current academic year.

(8) The number of students enrolled in in-person learning at the start of the current academic year.

(9) The rolling average number of students enrolled over the previous 5 academic years.

(b) The Board of Higher Education shall post the student enrollment data reported under subsection (a) on its Internet website.

(Source: P.A. 103-1020, eff. 8-9-24.)