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Tensions escalate at SIU as leadership ponders possibility of independent campuses

A 2014 essay for Inside Higher Ed noted that University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Oregon both unsuccessfully tried to break from their school systems in 2011. The Oregon University System eventually dissolved after a 2013 state law allowed public universities to establish their own institutional boards. All seven schools in that group took advantage and were operating independently by summer of 2015.