Join the Coalition for Transforming Higher Education Funding in our state capital for the 2025 Higher Education Advocacy Day on Tuesday, March 18!

This year’s theme is “Degrees of Change,” as we will focus on decisions state legislators can make to help black, brown, low-income, and first-generation students in Illinois through to college degree completion. While in Springfield, we will educate our elected officials on why we need them to:

• Prioritize and increase investments into the Monetary Award Program (MAP).
• Pass a student-focused, university funding formula to fix the inequities in how Illinois funds its four-year public institutions.

Our focus to address these systemic problems will make college more affordable for students and help them through degree completion.

We hope you will join us building on that turnout with another strong year of sounding off for equity Illinois’ college students!

Last year’s Advocacy Day was record-setting, bringing out over 60 advocates from all parts of Illinois to meet with state officials on the importance of properly investing in higher education.