The higher ed bubble cometh. This school is finding that out now.

CNN reports.

Illinois university forced to lay off 200 workers

The cuts impact 13% of the school’s employees. Support staff — like those who work in the food, housing, and building maintenance departments — were the hardest hit.

Professors escaped the cuts, but some of the remaining administrative staff members will be required to take one furlough day a week, starting March 1.

University President David Glassman says he has to make the cuts because lawmakers have not released funding for public colleges in the past eight months. They are a “direct result” of the missing funds, he said in a message posted to the university’s website.

Eastern Illinois and the state’s 11 other public universities have been waiting for state funds because of the budget stalemate between a Republican governor and a Democrat-controlled legislature. The 48 community colleges in Illinois are also waiting for the funding– which can account for as much as 30% of the budget at some schools.

Lawmakers can’t agree on how to fund the budget and the longer it takes, the longer public colleges and other state programs go without getting the money expected for the current fiscal year.

Additionally, money for state grants awarded to low-income students were never distributed, so Eastern and other colleges are covering that cost, too.

While the cash crunch has been looming since July, the layoffs at Eastern Illinois are the latest sign that some schools are tapped out and can’t continue operating as usual.