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Meanwhile, public universities that temporarily covered those costs still haven’t been reimbursed.

Data was unavailable for Chicago State University and some data has yet to be determined for the University of Illinois. But out of the rest of the Illinois state schools and their campuses, only one school did not cover full MAP grant funding for the fall 2015 and spring 2016 semesters.

That school was Northeastern Illinois University, but it was able to cover most of it.

Otherwise, the rest of the schools were able to fully cover MAP grant funds for the fall 2015 semester “in good faith” or under the assumption that the state of Illinois will reimburse them. The amount the state owes each school for MAP grants this school year ranges from almost $3 million to more than $60 million.

With the exception of Northeastern, all but one of the universities reported they were able to cover MAP grants for the spring 2016 semester in that same “good faith.” “They would probably fund MAP before they would fund the public universities.”

Phillips says if there’s still no MAP grant funding or state budget by next fall, NIU will not be able to cover the grants for that semester.

But Phillips says he doesn’t think it will get to that point.