"What we did was come together on a bipartisan basis to come up with a short-term solution to a crisis," Rauner said in downstate Auburn this week. "None of us want a university to close its doors, like Chicago State was on the verge of doing, none of us want professors at universities to lose their jobs. So this was a short-term solution and I'm supportive of that, what we've got to do is stay persistent to come up with a long-term solution with more money for our universities for (fiscal years) '16 and '17, a long-term solution with a balanced budget, new revenues, and — very critically — reforms."