Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law limiting the size of severance agreements at community colleges. The governor took action on legislation to put a cap on future buyouts for administrators of no more than one year of salary and benefits.
It was prompted by a decision by a former board of College of DuPage to give outgoing president Robert Breuder a $763.000 contract buyout to end his tenure three years early.
The initiative sponsored by GOP Rep. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton also limits contracts to four years with no provisions for automatic rollovers.
Ives also pushed through the House in May a resolution directing the state's auditor general to review College of DuPage spending from 2007 to 2014.
