May 04, 2012/Crain's Detroit Business
LANSING — Entrepreneurial degrees, classes, clubs and competitions are on the rise at all 15 Michigan public universities, a development that officials say bodes well for community and economic development, a survey has found.
"It's pretty phenomenal how much has begun happening in a short period of time," said Rob Fowler, CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan and chair of the entrepreneurship committee of the Michigan Sense of Place Council, which released the survey.
"It seems like it's happening all over the state," he said. "Much of it is student-led, but it includes entrepreneurship degrees at the bachelor's and master's level, helping companies in their communities through venture capital funds and incubators, and student clubs and companies."
April 28, 2012/Lansing State Journal
Michigan is ahead of the curve in terms of having women at the helm of its major universities.
Eastern Michigan, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan all have female presidents.
“That’s still pretty much unusual historically and even currently across the country,” says Michael Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.
April 19, 2012/AP
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia says it has amassed the nation’s largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — The objects displayed in Michigan’s newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque — a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that it makes visitors cringe.
That’s the idea behind the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, which says it has amassed the nation’s largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, from Reconstruction until the civil rights movement, and beyond.