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Extracted Content: There have been a few troubling downward trends lately at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Now the school is looking down the road to anticipate another one that could potentially kneecap the school.
The Gies College of Business, together with UIUC’s College of Engineering, has taken out an insurance policy to protect against the loss of tuition revenue from any significant drop in Chinese student enrollment. It is thought to be first for a business school, but Illinois’ $424,000 policy with Lloyd’s of London is no wild flight of fancy: As Poets&Quants has been reporting, international student enrollment has been dropping widely at second-tier schools. Illinois doesn’t want to one of the many victims.